This article is about only one of Khrushchev’s pair of speeches in 1956 at the twentieth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His first speech was public, the second one “secret,” so secret that the gist of it appeared worldwide within days and the full text within four months.
In his public speech, Khrushchev babbled on about peaceful, parliamentary transition from capitalism to socialism. Khrushchev smeared three pages with mush before saying it: socialism can be won by elections. The Marxist-Leninist formulation is shorter and sharper. A revolution must expect anti-revolutionary violence and defeat it. Peaceful transition has never happened, but if it should offer itself, we’ll be happy to take it – arms in hand. In his second, secret speech, Khrushchev slandered the entire period of socialist construction by denouncing Joseph Stalin. But if you investigate Khrushchev’s five dozen “revelations” about Stalin, you find that not one of them proves true. – https://www.idcommunism.com/2023/04/material-forces-that-turn-socialism-into-capitalism.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41918): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41918 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119611956/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
