WHAT IS THE PCP POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THE DISAPPEARED SOVIET UNION, CHINA AND CUBA?
Imperialism and revisionism are two sides of the same coin. Revisionism means abandoning communist principles, and it is a mortal enemy of every revolution led by the proletariat. Revisionists use Marxist terminology and -even traffick with the Red Flag and the Party card – to in fact impose capitalist oppression and exploitation over the working class (just like a radish “red on the outside, but white on the inside”). That is precisely what happened in the former Soviet Union, when revisionists (the Russian bourgeoisie inside the communist Party of the Soviet Union) led by Nikita Khrushchev, carried out a coup d’etat in 1953 and restored state-monopoly capitalism. The PCP always fought soviet revisionism on all fronts, all the way to Gorbachev. The corruption and dissolution of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries is a product of the bankruptcy of revisionism. The lesson to be drawn from these facts is that, under socialism, the Proletarian Cultural Revolution is
