Quotes:Nikos Zachariadis
On Marxism–Leninism
"It is our duty, armed with the theory and the method of Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin, the ideological arsenal of Marxism–Leninism–Stalinism, to study and dissects Greek life and reality with a time of changes and developments to analyze and know the modern Greek, local peculiarities and characteristics, to illuminate the Greek beam path to people’s democracy and socialism–communism” —"Marxism-Leninism in Greece", Communist Review, 1946
“4. If Leninism is the passage from imperialism to the revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, Stalinism is the transition to socialism under the dictatorship of the proletariat. Stalinism in theory illuminated the path of socialism and made him become true. But this is only a part of it.
7. So what is Stalinism? Stalinism is Marxism–Leninism of the era of socialism. The victory of socialism in one sixth of the world, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is the main motive, created the foundation for the victory of the world revolution.” —Selected Works, 1939
On Titoism
"The treachery of the Tito was disclosed at the very moment when the crisis of monarcho-fascism was sharpening. Tito’s treachery meant serious new difficulties for our people’s democratic movement, for it multiplied the determination of the Anglo-American imperialists to retain, at all costs, their hold on Greece for the very purpose of making full use of the treachery by Tito and extending their bridge in the Balkans. At the same time the Tito clique’s treachery raised the deflated hopes of monarcho-fascism. These are the consequences of Tito's treason. It was a stab in the back of our movement.
It is a fact that no one celebrated Tito's treason against our movement more than the Greek monarcho-fascists and their imperialist despots. The people’s democratic movement of our country has never, since the time of the first occupation, known of such a cunning and abhorrent enemy as the Tito clique." —Tito's dagger stabs the People's Democratic Greece in the back, 1949
On Maoism
"[...] 2. Mao Zedong, with his theory, did not provide and does not provide a Marxist-Leninist answer to the problems of our era because it originates and is expressed on a petty bourgeois-chauvinistic great-Chinese basis. Mao's internal line, the three components: the great leap – people's commune – general line, constituted a foundational, unrealistic effort to catch birds in the air, to realize the "communist dream" without a foundation in objective possibilities, and expressed petty-bourgeois weakness in the face of difficulties, an inability for scientific thought and action. This threw the Chinese revolution back and had a disintegrative impact on the Chinese Communist Party. Within the lines of the world communist movement, Mao Zedong Thought had and has a disintegrative influence. An example among many is our tragic defeat in Indonesia. And in Vietnam, objectively, he plays the game of the Americans. Assessing the crisis that Mao's theory and practice caused in the global communist and progressive movement, American imperialism, on which Mao Zedong Thought is based worldwide, constitutes an anti-theory to Marxism-Leninism; the KKEists cannot have any connection with it."
—Letters from Nikos Zachariadis, exiled in Sorgut, to the Central Committee (CC) in Tashkent, 1967