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   UNITE! Info #270en: 5/7 H. Dicke on the Cultural Revolution - in 2006 vs in   
   1976-78   
   [Posted: 05-06.02.2007]   
      
   [Continued from part 4/7]   
      
      
      
   6. ON THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND THE NEW   
   INTERNATIONAL MARXIST-LENINIST MOVEMENT (ctd.)   
      
   In the Peking Review in late 1976, 54 messages from CPC-   
   supporting organizations in 43 other countries congratulating   
   Hua Guofeng to his appointment as chairman of the CPC were   
   published, wholly or in part. They are listed in my Info   
   #022en, part 09/12. Many of them also expressly welcomed and   
   supported the striking down of the 4-gang.   
      
   Five such messages - beside that from the NE, which was not   
   published but was suppressed in China - showed up a quite good   
   all-round understanding of the situation in China then, in   
   that they expressly supported both the striking down of the   
   4-gang and also the - in late October 1976 - still continued   
   criticism against Deng Xiaoping. These were from the Colombian   
   Marxist-Leninist League, the CC of the Communist Party of the   
   Philippines, the Delegation of the CC of the Communist Party   
   of Indonesia, the CC of the Communist Party of Peru and   
   General Secretary Wilcox of the New Zealand Communist Party.   
   They are reproduced in Info #022en, part 10/12.   
      
   In his recent article, Dicke writes (at page 2/11 of a print-   
   out):   
      
      
   "None of the successor persons or groups [that might possibly   
   have caused or helped the CPC continue Mao Zedong's correct   
   line - RM] succeeded in really connecting the domestic class   
   struggle with the international tasks. Not the least ground   
   for that is to be found in the fact that China did not achieve   
   true connections with international forces supporting her. In   
   all of the organs concerned with the international connec-   
   tions, of the party as well as of the state apparatus, the   
   adverse direction had strong positions. On the other side, the   
   subversion against the new Marxist-Leninist movement worked by   
   all means to connect China to rotten forces."   
      
      
   This is true. This was pointed to also by Dicke and by the NE   
   when they were still Marxist, in the analysis in August 1977   
   and the basic statement of October 1978, documents No:s 2 and   
   3 in the below. The machinations to connect China to rotten   
   forces in Germany in particular and to prevent a connection   
   between the actually revolutionary forces in China and those   
   in Germany, as represented by the tiny but, despite this,   
   politically very important NE at that time (1975-77), were   
   described in detail in an article published by the NE in 1979   
   and reproduced in my translation in 1996 in Info #012en, part   
   1/6 etc, "Why Our Party Had to Reject the Interference by the   
   International Liaison Department and Other Chinese Organs -   
   Aspects -".   
      
   The most important rotten, phony"Marxist", organizations in   
   Germany at that time were the 'Roter Morgen' (falsely calling   
   itself "KPD/ML") and the 'KPD'. These and some further ones in   
   Germany,  where there in the 1970s was a veritable "party   
   jungle" probably thicker than in any other country, are   
   mentioned too in Note No. 6 to Dicke's recent article (at its   
   pages 10-11/11).   
      
   The 'Roter Morgen' in October 1976 openly sided with the   
   4-gang, attacked the beating down of that ultra-reactionary   
   group - as Dicke on his part was to do too, 30 years later -   
   and thereby cut its own throat politically.   
      
   That organization was rather closely connected with the Party   
   of Labour of Albania (PLA) led by Enver Hoxha, which had   
   played a positive role internationally in the early 1960s when   
   it too, like the CPC, criticized the revisionism of Khrushchov   
   in the Soviet Union and which in October 1976, on its part,   
   still supported the CPC and sent a congratulatory message to   
   Hua Guofeng, but which later, from 1978 on, attacked Mao   
   Zedong and the CPC as earlier led by him as "having in fact   
   since long represented the rightist line of Deng Xiaoping"(!),   
   and thereby showed that it too had degenerated completely.   
      
   Dicke in his recent article (at page 3/11) mentions this   
   treason by the PLA and notes, correctly: "An inevitable con-   
   sequence was that the PLA very soon afterwards became sub-   
   merged in the most rightist morass."  There are some indica-   
   tions that it above all was subversion by the US imperialists   
   that caused the PLA and  thus Albania as a country too to sink   
   into that morass.   
      
   In the abovementioned NE article in 1979 reproduced in my Info   
   #012en, it was pointed out, among other things, that from the   
   turn of the year 1974/1975 on - when those rotten organiza-   
   tions in Germany the 'Roter Morgen' and the 'KPD', though much   
   larger than the NE, were in a worse quandary politically than   
   ever before since their reactionary and by no means revolu-   
   tionary character had gotten so very clearly exposed by that   
   then genuinely Marxist-Leninist party the NE - precisely from   
   that time on they received some quite important, and very   
   harmful, support from certain forces in China. One person   
   clearly involved in this, the NE noted at that time, was Yao   
   Wenyuan - later one of the infamous "Gang of Four".   
      
   Thus that party in Germany already then had that group of   
   persons in China in its eyesights as quite suspect forces. As   
   mentioned by Dicke in his 1977 analysis (document No. 2 be-   
   low), for instance:   
      
      
   "Filled with suspicion, our Party [already before October 1976   
   - RM] observed the dealings of this clique [the 4-gang] and   
   prepared itself if need should be to counteract them during a   
   long period of time."   
      
      
   In the abovementioned article by the "Group Neue Einheit" in   
   January 2006, "On Yao Wenyuan's Death", many details are pro-   
   vided - most probably correctly, and I can even corroborate   
   the correctness of some of them - concerning the interference   
   by Yao Wenyan and some other forces in the CPC against the   
   then Marxist-Leninist party in Germany, the NE, in the spring/   
   summer of 1975, and efforts by Hartmut Dicke (Klaus Sender)   
   then at making Chinese representatives realize the error of   
   this.   
      
   [http://www.neue-einheit.com/english/is/is2006/is2006-06e.htm]   
      
   In that article, the phony"Marxist" "Group" even - still, on   
   its part, thus - wrote that "they" (pretending to be the same   
   as that earlier correct party, the NE) had "rejected" the   
   "gang of four" and still, at least in words, upheld a rela-   
   tively serious criticism against that gang, by writing:   
      
      
   "In our opinion, the policy of the 'gang of four' has es-   
   sentially contributed to the eventual powerlessness of the   
   numerous proletarian forces vis-à-vis this capitalist sub-   
   versive development."   
      
      
   Dicke's so openly and unequivocally declaring the 4-gang to   
   have been "a group of sincere revolutionaries who only made   
   certain mistakes" as in his later and recent article, and the   
      
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