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by the Comunist party, a point of view which is crucial to Marxism-
Leninism, and which places him squarely among those who subscribe
to the belief in the necessity of the dictatorship of the party in
the stage of socialist construction. He has similarly asserted that
under cortain conditions, violence is justifiable to defend the
party's monopoly of power and that the secret police organs may per-
form a positive function in the struggle against "reaction." The
only qualification which be introduced in 1956 was to suggest that
at a certain stage violence may become destructive if carried too
far. Besides, Gomulka has continually subscribed to the doctrine
that the world is divided into two antagonistic camps, a peace-loving
camp and an imperialist camp, and that it is therefore necessary for
the communist movements to stick together. even if such oohesion
invokes a certain measure of acrifice. In that sense, be has gone
on record as condemning the Jugoslav position that the independence
of the Yugoslav Communist party is an and in itself and an absolute
right which cannot be compromised.
It would be wrong, however, to conduled that Gomulka is a
rigid dogmatist subscribing in the main to Stalinist positions.
While rigidly upholding some of the points just mentioned, Gomulka
has continued to subscribe to certain positions which resulted in
his being purged from power in 1948, and which have involved him in
conflict with the Stalinist elements in his own party and in the or-
bit. He has emphasized that in order to be successful, "the con-
struction of socialism" must be based not only on sheer Stalinist
determination but also on disciplined patiende. He has warned that
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum.
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