COMMENTS ON ICD BRIEF, 'MORE ON THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT' AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST PARTY LINE FOR 1957, DATED 18 JANUARY 1957

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• Publication Date: May 22, 1957
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22 May 1957
MEMORANDUM FOR:
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SUBJECT . Comments orIrief, "More on the Historical
Experience of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat"
as an Expression of the International Communist
Party Line for 1957, dated 1 January 1957.
feel that an intelligence paper - which this analysis is - should
1. Our over-all impression of this paper is its somewhat to
emotional and, therefore, perhaps too subjective presentation. W
be written in concentrated and passionless objectivity.
2. We also feel that perhaps you give the 30 June Resolutio
less credit than it deserves. The poor quality of this statement
does not exclude the fact that it contained the major points of
interpretation and prescription which have been applied since its
publication.
apparently contradictory factors into a unity of purpose that is
Bolshevik with Chinese overtones.
ema n n e rea o speculation.
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-. We do not go along with you in believing that the Peiping
article will catch only "little fish." We are inclined to attach
far more importance to this statement. Also, we believe that it
will be quite effective, and not only in the sense of Gomulkanism.
As a matter of fact, in re-reading the piece, we think that it is
an intricate work of Communist dialectic that is far better than
-"almost anything the Soviets have put out for years. It combines
3. We doubt that the Kremlin actively collaborated, but
Peiping may have informed it on the general tenor of the article
prior to publication, possibly not much earlier than shortly before
Chou En-lai's departure for Eastern Europe. This, however, must ,1 -1 -1 4-1, l
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5. We feel, moreover, that you overplay Tito and underplay
the thesis of Great-nation chauvinism. In this connection, we do
not feel that paragraph 8 gives a correct appraisal of the sense of
the article. A distinction has been made tween the recognized
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the Soviet concept considerably.
ideological leadership of the USSR in matters of general principle
and the definite leeway left to countries which desire to proceed
along different roads to achieve these principles. Mao's later
statements seem to have borne this out. In other words, the USER
still is the base of World Communism and all other Communist regimes
are to recognize this fact. Nevertheless, the position of the USSR
as r~ imus inter pares does not imply a slavish imitation of Soviet
methods. Again, Mao's recent methodologi9a,J theses appear to modify
6. As we stated last January, the purpose of this article
seems to us to contain a definite statement of the Chicom ideological
position in the recent and current intra-Communist dissension Also,
the timing of the publication of this paper, about two weeks prior
to Chou's departure for Moscow and his visits to Warsaw and Budapest,
is significant. For the Peiping article not only contained a com-
prehensive roundup of Chicom views but was almost certainly also
written in a vein that would help Peiping to obtain more economic
concessions from Moscow, despite the Soviet commitments in the EE
satellites and uncommitted nations.
7. While on the whole we agree with your very last sentence,
we should like to insert here the view that Peiping, even within
the Communist framework, seems to us to follow the China First
thesis. And that may, some day, lead to conflict with the USSR.
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