The messages below are documents from the fight in "Leninlist," which was a pretentious offshoot from the "Marxism Space." At the end we see that MIM and Comrade Joma Sison were rebutted by a Khruschevite or someone to Khruschev's right; yet, Adolfo Olaechea purged MIM, not the persyn who was Khruschevite or worse.
From mim3@mim.org Sat Jan 24 21:26:52 1998
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:26:51 -0500 (EST)
From:
Here is something for Maoists to explain. I was in the Leninlist mailing group June 12, 1997.
I rebutted a Khruschevite with a Russian-sounding name in Australia and the next day I was purged from the list by whom? The moderators were Socialist Action (Montreal), Detroit Peru Support Committee and Committee Sol Peru (London).
They said my line on the labor aristocracy was too tough for them.
A few months later it turns out the Khruschevites on the list overpowered the "Maoist" moderators--that's how bad it was on that list. So I was purged in the name of their defense of the labor aristocracy and they couldn't deal with the Khruschevites on the list.
Here is the document from June 12, 1997.
>From mim3@mim Thu Jun 12 14:10:18 1997
To: Jim
This type of defense of Khruschev MIM rebuts with references to a book by W.B. Bland, The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union.
"'We must elevate the importance of profit and profitability.'" (N.S. Khruschchov: Report on the Porgramme of the CPSU, 22nd Congress CPSU, London; 1961, p. 54.
This book is good for the die-hards who won't believe it except from a reading of all Soviet phony Communist Party sources. To order, go to www.etext.org and pick the MIM site.
Also on the sale of assets, while Khruschev was in power:
"The time has come to eliminate the situation in which fixed assets allocated by society to any given production entity are given without charge." (V.S. Nemchinov: 'The Plan Target and Material Incentive,' in: "Pravda" September 21, 1962.
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Jim wrote:
> > Date: 05/06/97 19:55:58 > To: leninlist@aol.com
> > Jose Maria Sison wrote:
> > In the Soviet Union, Khrushchov's drive to undo the socialist > work of Lenin and Stalin included undermining and discrediting > socialist agriculture in a series of clever moves. As first > secretary of the Party, he pushed Malenkov the prime minister > to plant the wrong crops on vast areas in order to discredit > the latter as well as socialist agriculture. After taking all > power into his hands, he broke the alliance of the working > class and the peasantry. He dissolved the machine and tractor > stations run by the proletariat, allowed the collectives to > individually own, buy and sell farm machines and spare parts, > expanded the private plots and the free markets and encouraged > the reemergence of the rich peasants.
> > Soviet agriculture went into shambles before Khrushchov fell > from power. This was one of the major reasons for his ouster. > But his successors did not reverse his agricultural policy but > continued to praise the supposedly higher productivity in the > private plots than in the collective farms from which the rich > peasants and free traders stole products. > ================================================
[Leninlist member from Australia says:]
> > > > This shows that the author does not fully understand the essence of > Krushchev's policies. Khrushchov did dissolved the machine and tractor > stations. At the same time he never "allowed the collectives to > individually own, buy and sell farm machines and spare parts, expanded > the private plots and the free markets and encouraged the reemergence of > the rich peasants". Collectives could own agricultural mashines, but > they > could not sell them. Krushchev ruined the very foundations of non- > capitalist market economy that existed under Stalin. He never expanded > private plots, he cut them. He prohibited cattle in individual > households, > he heavily taxed gardens preventing peasants from sell apples and other > fruit on the market. He started to pay peasants wages, as if they were > industrial workers and they lost the incentive of prioducing crops and > exchangingg it on money. Krusschev was a leftist, not rightist, and he > did > unrepairable damage to socialism. > > > _______________________________________________________________ [Name deleted by MIM]