MARXISM AND MAO'S CHINA

The Chinese leaders, especially Mao Zedong,were simply adhering to the Sinified, and therefore nominally independent, Marxism that enabled them to win revolutionary war in the first place. In 1958, Mao, after first stressing that China should be friendly terms with the Soviet Russia and "should learn from the good points of the Soviet Union and other foreign counties", Mao once again emphatised the importance of distinctive Chinese conditions. The change in the relationship between the two powers did not occur because of the theoretical differences: that had existed since the Comintern's rule over the Party in the 1920s. Rather it was the emergence of the Communists on the international scene that represented a new challenge to Soviet control over the foreign policy of all Communist countries. While Stalin was at helm, he had been largely unchallenged as leader of the Communist international movement. Krushchev, however, was attemping to impose a new revolutionary line on the world Communist movement, which was the very antithesis of Chinese Marxist  theory and experience. Through their relationship, the Chinese and Soviet Communist parties have been hindered by the national differences to which Lenin alluded in his Left-Wing Communism-An Infantile Disorder.
Casalino Pierluigi, on Dec. 26th 2013