from a London correspondent
‘Garried the text of statnonts made by Ben Balia at
a8 press conference attonded by delegatos to the 3rd International Conference
of Journalists (among whom was Mr. Adjouboi, chief oditor of Izvestia and
Khrushchov's son-in-law). I havo translated some of the important parts,
"The Gvian tgreenents are not the Koran for us,.."e prefer to speak
of cooporation, for we are for cooper:tion. It is in this action for the
cooperstion of equols that it is necessary to reviso and rendjust the Evian
agreements in line with our socinlist choice...
The President announced that 3 million hsctares (about 7 pillion acres)
in all will be exploited by the beginning of tho yoar under the system of
solf-managament, out of a total of 7 million hectares cultivated in Algeria.
Out of the 3m. hoctares, ho ostinatedthat 2,700,000 cana from properties
of “urepean colons, “Starting from thia agrarian roform,™ Ben Belle contin-
ued, "we shall throw our weight agsinst the private sector which will be
roduced little by little as one sheds 2 scab." After having recalled that
the big industrial enterprises are in the hands of the workers, he said, "Things will go very quicllyin this domain in 1964. The socialist sector will
be of such strength that it absorts what remains of tho private sector," oo
foe aay YUGOSLAVIA IS STATS C.PITALIST, HINT RUSSIA MAY POLLOW
The Chinese have issued yet another massive missile in their polemic with the leadership of the C.P.5.U., antitled "Is Yugoslavia a Socialist Country?" Needless to say, their answer is no. However, the article does contain one or two new features which are worth noting. Of particular note is that the Chinese - those arch-opponents of 'revisionian! ! - have introduced a revision to Marxist theory, They say towards the end of tho articles
"J eece0it shows us that the restoration of capitalism in a social= ist country can be achieved not necessarily through a countermrovolutionary coup d'etat or armed imperialist invasion, and that it can also be achieved through the degradation of the leading group in that country. The easiest way to capture a fortress is from within...."(shades of peaceful transtionl
Of intarest too, is their definition of Yugoslavia:
",..The Tito clique's economy of "workers! self—govarnment" is state capitaliam of a peculiar kind, It is not state capitalism under eonditions of the dictatorship of the proletariat but state capitalism under conditions in which the Tito clique has turned the dictatorship of the prol— etariat into the dictatorship of the turomicratic-comprador bourgeoisie, The moans of production of the entorprises under “workers! salf-government" do not belong to one or more private capitalists but to tho new type of burcar~ cratic-comprador bourgeoisie of Yugoslavian, which includes the bureaucrats and managers and which the Tito clique reprosentsse."
- They raise the question, in the conclusion of tha article,of the soviet Union following the same path:
",eeeThe leaders of the C.P.5.U. proclaim that they have already oliminated the danger of the restoration of capitalim and are building comunism, If this were true, it would of course be heartening. Fut we see that in fact they are imitating Yugoslavie in every way and have taken a most dangerous path, This deeply worries and pains uses..."