Mao Zedong


"The policies of aggression and war of U.S. 
imperialism also seriously threaten the Soviet 
Union, China, and the other socialist countries. 
Moreover, it is vigorously seeking to push its 
policy of 'peaceful evolution' in the socialist 
countries, in order to bring about the restoration 
of capitalism there and disintegrate the socialist 
camp."

--Mao, "U.S. Imperialism Is the Most
Ferocious Enemy of the World's People," 1964

"Khruschov's revisionism entirely caters to the 
policy of 'peaceful evolution' which U.S.
imperialism is pursuing with regard to the Soviet
Union and other socialist countries. John Foster
Dulles said:

'. . .there was evidence within the Soviet Union
forces toward greater liberalism which, if they
persisted, could bring about a basic change
within the Soviet Union.'

"The liberal forces Dulles talked about are capitalist
forces. The basic change Dulles hoped for is
the degeneration of socialism into capitalism."

--Mao, "On Khrushchov's Phoney Communism and Its
Historical Lessons for the World: Comment on the 
Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSU (IX),"
Foreign Languages Press, Peking, July 14, 1964

[Why this quote is correct:
Stalin had sometimes said that socialism was "forever"
in the Soviet Union. Trotsky had said it was impossible
to restore capitalism without a major bloody civil war.

Already in 1958, Mao was warning inside the Communist
Party of China that the U.S. Secretary of State had
announced a "peaceful evolution" strategy. Mao's
enemy in the Communist Party of China, Bo Yibo, one who 
had a major hand in negating the Cultural Revolution,
has written memoirs saying that Mao was linking
Khruschev to Dulles already in 1958, 1959 and 1960.
See, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/CWIHP/BULLETINS/b6-7a19.htm ]