66 SOCIAL SCIENTIST Nor can anybody who has a genuine interest in the world proletarian revolution help being sad when he or she sees the manner in which the leaders of the CPSU and the CCP have been and are still dealing with the revolution and party in the other country. One cannot but endorse the moving appeal made by the venerable Ho Chi-minh in his last will and testament that this lift in the socialist world and the communist movement should be healed as quickly as possible. Once that is done, the outstanding personality of Mao would come clear,, with all his magnificent achievements as well as the few errors which he undoubtedly committed., particularly in his last years. The Maa that would emerge out of this would be neither the all-powerful,, all-knowing, semi-divine father figure as the self-styled 'followers of the thought of Mao5 would have us believe, nor the devil incarnate as is depicted by the ^anti-Maoists", beginning with the leaders of the CPSU. Mao would then take his place as the most outstanding leader of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a theoretician whose teachings are of great importance to the revolutionaries of all Third World countries. E M S NAMBOODIRIPAD 1 Mao Tse-tung, "The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party5',. Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, vol II, Nabajatak Prakashan, Calcutta 1973, p 311. 2 Ibid., p 316. 8 Ibid. 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid., p 316 i7. e Ibid., p 317. ^ Ibid. 8 VI Lenin, Tfia Proletarian Retolution and the Renegade Kauisky, Progress Publishers,. Moscow WO, pp 59-60.