IDEOLOGISCHE GEGENSATZE ZWISCHEN MOSKAU UND PEKING

In: Osteuropa, Volume 8, Issue 2, p. 99-105

Abstract

7 chief points touching on the ideological contradictions between Moscow & Peking deserve attention, though some are less important than others. The USSR achieved its revolution by depending on the workers, the Chinese by depending on the peasants. Moscow spoke of a dictatorship, Peking of a hegemony of the proletariat (but some agreement has lessened the contrast). So far as the intellectuals are concerned, Chinese `toleration' exists in words only. By contrast, the Chinese allowed articles to be published since the Hungarian crisis which reproached the USSR for its `chauvinism'; articles whose effectiveness was destroyed by the overt accepting by Peking of Moscow's 'intervention in the internal affairs of Hungary & Poland.' Minor diff's also exist concerning the right to strike. So far as the dialectic is concerned, if China & the USSR are in accord in their distinguishing `antagonistic from non-antagonistic contradictions', it would seem that China maintains, as opposed to the USSR, on one side the persistence of antagonistic contradictions, & on the other side the persistence of contradictions between the governed & the governors in a socialsit nation. Tr. By J. A. Broussard.