An interesting disagreement at an international CP conferenca in ioscow ‘comes to light in a report in the December issue of siarxism Today. The conference on "Problems of contemporary capitalism" was held from the 23rd of august to the 3rd of Septonbere The main item of discussion was a memorandum prepared by A.A. Aryamanyan .who esid. "The existence of the world socialist system has created new conditions which make it possible to achieve thiough ths working class struggle in the capitalist countries results which go beyond the scope of ordinary reforms", The figt should centre on ..."general democratic demands" which would draw in the support of"broad democratic forces". He supported tho view that demands for nationalisation arc correct in the present situation: ...."Today, when state monopoly capitalism continu.s to develop, favourable economic and sooial requisites have matured for a mass struggle for democratic nationalism which opens up broad prospects for social transformations leading to the establishment of people's power". oe.
However, against this a Japanese speaker was suspisciouss eoe "Tho argunent that stato monopoly capitalism nay be turned into machinery to control capitalism through participation and interfezence of the working classes in the bourgeois state oes oh 1B) saems the most obsequious subservience to state manopoly capitalism, a theory of gradual evolution to socialism .eeecoee loading the people from the path of revolutionary strugzle to ccmpromise and capituwiation."
The Chinese in their polemics with the Kruschovites are "speaking through the Koreans" to greater extent as time goes ong so much so that at th. Czechoslovakian CP Congress they too were criticised by several delegates. The Korean Workers Party ( CP) paper "Worker", on Dec 19th carricd an editori2l which was obviously designed to answer the accusation against the Chinese of wanting to export revolution by war. We reproduce extracts:=—
The successful completion of the Korean revolution clearly shows the process of ths combination of the main internal force with th. complomentary international conditions. But here the most important question is the preparat= ~ion of ths internal force. A revolution cannot be victorious before the internal rovolutionary force has bown prepared, how:ver favourable the intornational conditions may bé. On the other hand when the internal force is fully prepared, the revolution can be succesful vven if the international situation is somewhat unfavourable. The timing, specd, ways and depth of the revolution —- all problems of the revolution are determined first of all by the extent to which the internal force is prepared. The vig tory of the Cuban Peoples! Revolution is an eloquent proof of this. Of course it is conceivable that tho victory of the Cuban revolutionary can be separated from the victory of the international revolutionary movement. The Cuban revolution triumphed under the conditions of the oxistence of apowerful socialist camp and the successive victories of tho struggle for national and class liberation in various parts of the world, and it triumphed as part of ths struggle. But it must be stressed that the Cuban revolution faced the most difficult international conditions, considering the country's proximity to the head of imperialism and chief of world reaction, US imperialism, and the fact that Cuba was ones in its claws. Nevertheless the Cuban people have emerged victorious in their revolution and are stubbornly defending their revolutionary gains. They have become invincible.
The artiels: says that this fustual analysis should lead to the conclusion that the decisive factor in the revolution of any country is its internal force. Though intsrnational conditions are important, they work only to expedite or delay the revolution of that country. N.B. The article has been reproduced in full by all important Chinese newspapers and by Hsinhua, New China News Agency.