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Description
Reflections on China, volume 1, extracted from the Political Diary of Comrade Enver Hoxha demonstrates, in theory and practice, the vacillations of the Chinese leadership from 1962 to 1972, key years in the development of the People’s Republic of China.
These wavering stands, first towards modern revisionism in the USSR and then towards capitalist-imperialism in the U.S., were met with staunch and principled criticism by the Party of Labour of Albania. The events of the so-called “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” are described here, and as the reader will notice, this was almost an enigma to Albania because the Communist Party of China was not itself, was non-existent and nobody updated Albania on the events. For a time, they believed they knew enough to support it, but time would prove Albania’s initial fears about the anarchy and chaos correct. The journey of Nixon to China to meet with Mao is mentioned here as a grave mistake, especially since the U.S. was slaughtering the Vietnamese patriots at the same time. It turns out that the Chinese wholly trusted U.S. intelligence which duped them into believing a nuclear threat from the USSR was imminent, a claim which Comrade Enver Hoxha distrusted from the moment he heard it. Lastly, the Chinese rummaging in the Balkans, allying with Tito and Ceausescu and putting pressure on Albania to do so as well, is put in its right place as interference in the internal affairs of another people and part of the reactionary strategy of alliance with U.S. imperialism against Soviet social-imperialism.