To the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party:
With profound sorrow and deep regret, we express to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and through it to the glorious Party, to the working class, and to the people of China. We express our great sadness at this immense and irreparable loss which the deceased President Mao Tse-tung, founder and brilliant guide of the CCP, wise and fearless leader of the Chinese revolution, and great teacher of the international proletariat, of oppressed peoples, and of world revolution, signifies.
The working class and the international communist movement, in their great history of struggle, have had moments of immense loss and profound sorrow before: the disappearance of their great forgers, teachers, and leaders; such as those of Marx and Engels, and of Lenin and Stalin, which necessarily resounded in history. Today, we also face one of these grave and sorrowful critical moments, and as we did yesterday, we must again raise the invincible flags of Marxism, so that the Program of the working class, which Marx, Lenin, and Mao set in motion, develop toward its objective: the emancipation of the working class, and the final construction of the classless society, the objective of all humanity.
In the great whirlwind of the class struggle of the Chinese revolution, President Mao, developing his indispensable leadership of the proletariat, established the course of surrounding the cities from the countryside, constructing bases of support, and developing a heroic People's War.
Thus, under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, through a prolonged war of defeats and victories, forging a united front based on the worker-peasant alliance, waging the armed struggle which generated a great People's Army. Struggling constantly for the construction of the Party, in 1949 the working class and the Chinese people culminated the revolution of New democracy. For those who still struggle against the domination of imperialism and feudalism, the general laws of revolution, which President Mao established, remain consecrated as the road we must follow through.
But the extraordinary work of President Mao is projected and enlarged in the leadership of the socialist revolution in the People's Republic of China, which he himself created. He established the fundamental line of socialism, basing himself in the principle of the class struggle, and establishing that the class struggle and the classes still subsist in socialism. Synthesizing world experience, he developed the Marxist theory of the continuation of the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, impelling the most colossal mobilization of the masses in history, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as the continuation of the revolution, which prevented the restoration of capitalism, and served the development and construction of socialism.
Thus, President Mao has marked the road to the communist future, calling the masses to combat under the great emblem of "It is Right to Rebel," (The Rebellion is Justified!) and "the philosophy of the proletariat is the philosophy of struggle," to sweep away the monsters which at certain times come in the palaestra, and the bourgeoisie following the capitalist road in the Party itself. All of these to strengthen the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is essential for the completion of the historical objective of the working class.
President Mao, in more than 60 years of battle in the crucible of the Chinese revolution and of the international proletariat, adhered to Marxism, and fusing it with the realities of his country, developed the Marxist philosophy, political economics, and scientific socialism that show the print of his enduring contribution. In defense of Marxism, he struggled against the revisionism of Khrushchev, which he unmasked relentlessly before the world as the negation of Marxism, as a bourgeois product which ought to be swept away, so that the revolution might advance. And through the great controversy and struggle at a world level, he propelled and directed firmly the campaign against social imperialism, whose authority is the revisionist group headed by Brezhnev [1976], and which, in ultimate terms, is the current battle front. Thus, President Mao inherited, defended, and developed Marxism-Leninism, elevating it to its current condition as the living soul of the working class, and hope of humanity: Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung thought. Therefore, to be a Marxist-Leninist today is to adhere to Mao Tsetung thought.
President Mao founded the Chinese Communist Party, and guided it wisely for more than 50 years of struggle in its historic beginnings as vanguard of the Chinese working class, in the torments of the Northern Expedition, in the epic of the Agrarian War and the Great March, in the indefatigable and heroic War of Anti-Japanese Resistance, in the sweeping and victorious War of National Liberation, in the construction of socialism, and in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
President Mao led his Party, forging it also in the struggle of two lines within it, against the rightism and leftism which tried to divert it; and in recent years especially, against the revisionism which raised its counterrevolutionary head with Liu Shao-chi, Lin Piao, and today Teng Siao-Ping and his rightist wind. In the great class struggle of the Chinese revolution and of the contemporary world, and in the struggle of two lines in his own ranks, President Mao has directed the Chinese Communist Party to make it the "great, glorious, and correct" Party which the working class and the world admire and respect. In this crucible, this great Chinese revolutionary has been forged, the masterful leader who has continued the work of the great teachers of the international working class, he is the glorious communist and militant who has developed Marx and Lenin. Mao Tse-tung is the extraordinary man whose heart palpitated to the end with the imperishable light of Marxism, with the omnipotent creative force of the masses, and his unshakable spirit to serve the people.
As President Mao himself has said, the next 50 to 100 years will shake up the world to change it. Then, we are, and evolve ourselves in a decisive period for the working class, the people, and all of humanity. The great revolutionary storm will scorch the face of the earth. Many new problems must be resolved, and among the victories there will be defeats and failures. Revolution is the principal tendency of history, but it will have to sweep away obstacles and countercurrents, and we are very certain that the revolution will prevail. "In a few words, the prospects are bright, but the road is sinuous."
The founder of our Party, Jose Carlos Mariátegui, taught us: "It is not possible to be unconcerned about the destiny of a nation that has such an important position in time and space. In human history, China is too important for us not to be attracted by its experience and men." If this is said to us of the Old China, what may one say of the New China? Thus, for our Party, for the communists and the people of Perú, the historical perspective demands today more than ever, in this great, sorrowful critical moment for the working class and world revolution, that we adhere more to Marxism, that we cling to the philosophy of struggle, that we transform our sorrows into strength. And closing ranks with the red line of the Chinese Communist Party, which maintains the invincible flag of President Mao, we must advance together with the parties loyal to Marxism, with the international working class, and with the peoples of the world, promising solemnly to march forever under the red and victorious flags of Marx, Lenin, and Mao Tse-tung.
President Mao is dead! But his thought and actions live in the working class, in the oppressed peoples, and in the masses of the world. And wherever the revolution struggles, Marxism- Leninism-Mao Tsetung thought will live eternally.
"The principal thing in warfare is people, us human beings, the ideology that motivate us, the class that leads, the interests being defended and the cause being served" President Gonzalo (PCP).
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