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declare the recognition of both Soviet leadership and the principle
of unity in the camp. Be did not go to Moscow.
Only then did Tito finally reassess the situation within the
communist bloc. In reacting against his past optimism, he moved
in the direction of open ideological challenge. In March, 1958,
the Yugoslavs issued a so-called draft program, a summary state-
ment of their doctrinal position, to be approved at the Party
Congress in April. The draft program systemstized and made explicit
many of the previously held Yugoslav positions, reassessing many of
the sacred tonets of Marxist-Leninist doctrine. Claiming that their
statement was derived from the principles of Marxism and Leninism,
and strongly implying that their judgements had universal relevance
for all communist movements, the Yugoalavs explicitly abandoned the
two-camp theory, which is at the core of the communist image of the
world. In rejecting the notion of two irreconcilable world military
blocs, they implied a certain degree of equivalence between them
and naturally provoked ories of outrage from the communist citadels.
Fruthermore, the Yugoslavs suggested that the process of change
throughout the world is an interrelated, organic continum with the
capitalist world undergoing evolutionary changes and gradually
pointing in the direction of a greater degree of societal owner-
ship. At the same tine, they suggested that the communist world,
despite Stalinist aberrations, was also evolving in the direction
of greater diversity and freedom. The implication was that in the
end the two will meet. They further outraged the doguatic commu-
nist viewpoint by suggesting the possibility of building communism
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum.
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