Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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China, he said, wants to tell the workers in the West: "Why the hell are you earning so much? Do you know what danger you are in? You have degenerated." To his audience, Khrushchev shouted: "Comrades, nothing but ridicule
...Chinese, Khrushchev hinted, are merely envious of Russian prosperity-but this prosperity is necessary to the revolutionary cause, he added virtuously, for it inspires workers everywhere. Moreover, if the Chinese have economic problems, then they have only their own "reckless experiments" to blame. Obviously still smarting at not being consulted, Khrushchev recalled how Mao Tse-tung in 1958 informed him of his disastrous plans to set up agricultural communes. "He was not asking me," said Khrushchev, "he was telling me. So I said, 'It is your business. You try it. But we tried it long ago and failed...
General Havoc. As usual, Khrushchev's speech was studded with supporting quotations from Lenin, and, as usual, so were the replies from Mao. The baffled Western spectator could only wonder which one was the real Leninist and just what the prophet had really said...
...cowards." He dismissed the notion of peaceful victory over capitalism as heresy, akin to the hated belief in mere social reform. This, as Lenin and Marx saw it, provides a palliative for the workers that, by lessening their misery a little, only delays revolution. On the other hand, Khrushchev can quote Lenin as saying that the time must always be right for revolution before it is tried, and also that "revolution cannot be exported," meaning that each country must reach...
...better of the argument-at least on paper points. But Khrushchev argues effectively that Marxism is not a fixed dogma, but a method that must be applied to different conditions of each era-for instance, to the nuclear age, which drastically changes the nature of war. It is not enough simply to "get out the book and look up what Vladimir Ilyich said. We must do our own thinking, study life diligently and analyze the contemporary setting...