V. G. Wilcox
General Secretary, Communist Party of New Zealand
"Speech at the Party School of the Kwangtung Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China"
February 18, 1964
Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1964

"One can well say of the modern revisionists that unless they quickly return to
the principles of Marxism-Leninism they too will cease to be revisionists of Marxism-Leninism
and will become complete opponents of all aspects of Marxism-Leninism. They will become
as ardent social democrats as leaders of our labour parties in the capitalist world.

"And some Communist Parties of Europe today, the Communist Party of Italy in particular,
are very much near that position. There is no middle road between Marxism-Leninism
and social democracy for revisionists."


[Why this quote was right: Most of the former communist parties that followed
Soviet revisionism have now turned to social-democracy with the collapse of the
Soviet Union. Thousands and millions of people reached a point in their
young or middle-aged lives in the 1960s and 1970s when they could have 
undertaken the difficult struggle for Maoism and instead they decided to 
slide along with Khruschev/Brezhnev revisionism. The result is plain to see 
in the numerous parties that have dissolved or renamed themselves as social-democrats.]