ABSTRACT
The whole concept of neutrality is foreign both to Marxism and Marxism-Leninism. As a result, the Soviet Communist Party is firmly convinced that all men and all women must play some part in the class struggle', however small; and that therefore no human being can properly be said to be 'neutral'. Nor is war the only occasion on which Soviet statesmen are obliged to speak of' 'neutrality'. They accept that a country can fairly be said to be 'neutral' with regard to a particular international dispute in time of peace. The Soviet plan for the neutralization of Germany was put forward in 1952, when the question of the rearming of the German Federal Republic, and of her incorporation into North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was beginning to be discussed in the West. The chief points about 'neutralism' of which the reader should be aware is that it is not the same as 'neutrality'; nor is a 'neutralist' country a 'neutral'.
