Conclusion

Abstract

Having made an analysis of the Sino-Soviet dispute on war, the author will set forth his conclusion in the following pages. To begin with, we have seen that both disputants are in agreement that monopoly capitalism sow the seeds of armed conflict. The exploitative class has waged wars internally with the workers and peasants, and externally with the colonies. Both agree in attributing all aggression to the system of private ownership of the means of production ; the prevention of war, therefore, can be achieved by the takeover in public hands of those means, or, in other words, the “substitution of socialism for capitalism” as a way of life. A world community without class exploitation would be one in which all men enjoy the fruits of their common labor. Admittedly this is a communist ideal. Canwar be averted before the realization of that ideal? The Chinese professed their unswerving faith in Leninism and answered the question negatively. A universal peace, they believed, would not reign until the establishment of what Lenin called the “international workers’a republic.” By its very nature, imperialism is aggressive; and it would be contradictory to equate a harmonious world with one in which imperialism exists. This principle, the Chinese asserted, always remains true. It is plainly nugatory for one to try to revise it in view of such irrelevant factors as “scientific discoveries.” Allegedly tampering with Marxism-Leninism by propounding the avoidability doctrine, the Soviets were said to be doing a disservice to proletarian internationalism.