"There is no force that can make our Party deviate from this fully
internationalist, glorious and honourable course. There is no force which can
intimidate or conquer it. Our Party cannot reconcile itself to any kind of
opportunism, to any kind of deviation from Marxism-Leninism, to any distortion
of it."--Enver Hoxha, <I>Imperialism and the Revolution</I> Part II, "'Mao Tse-tung
Thought,' an Anti-Marxist Theory"


[Why this quote was wrong:
Hoxha died in 1985. His right-hand man Ramiz Alia instituted multi-party elections
and by 1992 there was not a single Hoxhaite left in the government. Albania had
an open free market capitalist restoration recognizable by all.

In fact, capitalism came to Albania much sooner than 1985. Completely
typical statements like the
above that there is "no force" that can make the party swerve off course were
completely unrealistic. Such metaphysical statements were designed to wreck the
communist struggle--put it off guard when Cultural Revolution of the masses
against the bourgeoisie in the party was a part of the vigilance necessary.

In the same article Hoxha was talking about how "two line struggle" does not
exist and how old capitalists were supposedly still getting money in China. Yet
it was not old capitalists from before 1949 restoring capitalism in China and
it was not ex-capitalists in Albania who restored it in Albania. It was as
Mao said all along the "bourgeoisie in the party."]