CIA Reading Room cia-rdp79-01194a000200160001-7: CA PROPAGANDA PERSPECTIVES JUNE 1972

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Approved For Release 1999/09/02 : CIA-RDP79-01194A000200160001-7 25X1 C1 Ob Next 1 Page(s) In Document Exempt Approved For Release 1999/09/02 : CIA-RDP79-01194A000200160001-7 Approved' For Release 1999/09/02 : CIA-RDP79-01194A000200160001-7 41101?1.1.011.41?0111.1.11. dune iv/2 WHO'S FOOLING -WHOM IN CHILE? What does the future hold for those socialist, democratic and progressive political parties, national organizations, religious groups and other political forces that enter into alliances with communist parties? Do the communists enter the alliance in good faith, with the thought of acting within the alliance merely as equals of the other parties and forces involved? Is it their true intention, within the bounds of their own political ideals and principles, to remain flexible to the political, social and ideological desires of the majority within the alliance for the common good of the alliance and the nation? Will the non-Marxist parties and forces of the alliance and their political, social and ideological ideals survive in the communist party version of the socialist state? An explicit answer to these questions is found in a theoretical trilogy issued in February this year by the top echelon of inter-national communism, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CC, CPSU). The central thesis appeared in the main journal of the CC,CPSU, KOMMUnist (issue No. 3, 1972), in a lengthy, wide-ranging article entitled, "The Falsifiers of Scientific Communism and Their Bankruptcy." Bearing the imprint "Prepared by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CC, CPSU," the article carries the authority and political weight of a party directive, binding on all party members as well as on all parties worldwide. While providing the theoretical basis for upholding Moscow's ideological orthodoxy, the article ranges well beyond mere theory in prescribing in explicit terms the strategy and tactics for unifying and consolidating the "democratic, anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces" of the world under Soviet political hegemony. To underline the international significance of the pronounce-ment, the CPSU simultaneously published two other articles further clarifying those sections of the KOmMUnist theme most pertinent to foreign communist parties. These articles appeared in Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn (issue NO. 3, 1972), a Soviet international affairs monthly that appears in English and French editions as well as in Russian, and in NewTithes (issue No. 8, 1972), a Soviet international affairs weekly that is published in Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Polish and Czech. Both articles Were signed by Alexander Sobolev, well known among leadership elements of international communism as head of the section of the CC, CPSU responsible for history of the international communist movement. Regarding political and ideological pluralism and the role of the communist party, questions of vital importance to non-communist parties and groups in a