STALINISTS TAKE UP CUDGELS AGAINST CHE GUEVARA
Echoing Moscow's opposition to the revolutionary line of the Cuban leadership, West German Stalinist circles are advancing "ideological" refutations of the Cuban position -- Che Guevara's in particular.
The Hamburg weekly Blinkfeuer {Spark], which faithfully reflects the viewpoint of the illegal West German Communist party and which has published major Moscow-line documents in the past, offers a scholastic contribution to the current polemics in its December 21 issue.
The Blinkfeuer article-is an interview with Professor Joseph Schleifstein, one of the coeditors of the East German de luxe edition of the collected works of Karl Mehring; he is described by Blinkfeuer as having "become well known as one of the most prolific Marxist scholars."
The section quoted below is the profes-
sor's answer to a question on the strat-
egy of "many Vietnams."
"That is an appeal to the unknown.
It sounds very revolutionary but it basi-
cally amounts to wanting to prescribe
forms and methods of struggle for revolu-
tionaries and socialists in other coun-
tries. But no one has that right. That
is the affair of the revolutionaries and
socialists in each country, who must be
considered the best judge of the condi-
tions of their struggle.
"It is equally unjustifiable for
someone who does not share in the least
way the Soviet government's responsibil-
ity for world peace and the fate of the
Socialist countries to ask the Soviet
Union to be readier to assume risks."
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