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From owner-marxism Sun Sep 10 21:38:53 1995
From: Maoist Internationalist Movement
Greetings from the Maoist Internationalist Movement.
We agree that there is a place for academic dispute of
Marxism. We are happy to join this group.
Specifically, working for the COMINTERN, R. Palme Dutt
looked at the 1930 U.S. Census and saw 40 percent
industrial, transport and mining workers. He also saw
a substantial portion of farmers, though it was obviously
in decline.
By 1980 as J. Sakai has pointed out in the widely
disrespected underground literature, what Dutt would
have seen in the Census was 13% industrial, mining and
transport workers. Meanwhile the non-productive portion
of that (industry, mining and transport) increased to one third, and tripled in so doing.
Of course, there is little of the farming sector left.
Hence, there is no stretch of the imagination that can
show a majority of productive workers within the
borders of the United States.
Some at Monthly Review have noticed this and simply
changed the definition of productive labor to include
more white collar work. We at MIM stuck with the more
classic definitions and point to the pudding.
The parasitic working classes of the imperialist countries
show no tendencies to socialism and in fact organize
themselves against immigrants and workers abroad.
Meanwhile, communist parties take up the demands of
a class allied with imperialism and end up throwing
themselves on the rocks, dissolving and vacillating
terribly like the classes they represent.
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From owner-marxism Sun Sep 10 23:58:56 1995
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 19:58:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Jaszewski
> How could the Peruvian Communist Party become
> such a threat to the state, if it did not have
> support from the people, support that more than
> makes up for their lack of rich high-tech backers like
> U.S. imperialism?
I don't think too many people here believe EVERYTHING they hear or read about the Senderistas, but it's a FACT that they HAVE terrorized people and killed other, competing leftists -- people just like us here.
No one's absolving the Peruvian military or that stooge Fujimori of THEIR crimes...
Senderistas have come to Canada looking for support for their cause, but most people on the Left -- including other latin american groups -- tend to give them a wide berth, and they do come across as strident and dogmatic...
They have a VERY bad reputation.
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From owner-marxism Sun Sep 10 21:52:57 1995
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 17:52:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Maoist Internationalist Movement
We have heard this story that the communists
round up villagers by force and that is the
only way they ever gain any support. We have
heard this applied to entire countries such
as China, where the revolutionaries supposedly
did this all the way to state power.
While such a strategy might work in a perfectly
empty vacuum, the state in each case has
always started with more weapons, more people
and vastly superior technology. How is it possible
to defeat superior enemy forces without support
from the people? How could the Vietnamese have held
out if they hadn't had incredible support from the
people against U.S. imperialism?
How could the Peruvian Communist Party become
such a threat to the state, if it did not have
support from the people, support that more than
makes up for their lack of rich high-tech backers like
U.S. imperialism?
From owner-marxism Mon Sep 11 17:14:52 1995
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 13:14:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Maoist Internationalist Movement
> Furthermore, the Khymer Rouge owed a large amount of its ideological
> inspiration to Maoism. Of course, one could argue that Maoists under
> Pol Pot distorted Mao's position (during the Cultural Revolution) regarding
> the advantages of re-educating those citizens infected by bourgeois
> culture and pro-imperialist thinking. For background on this topic, I
> recommend viewing "The Killing Fields."
>
Hollywood is not a very good way to settle detailed questions. However, if you want to blame us for "inspiring" killing fields, we will agree to that as long as you credit us for "inspiring" all the anti-colonial struggles that came after Mao led China to "stand up." We would do this to encourage people to look at the objective implications of a struggle. Mao died in 1976. His supporters and the leaders of the Cultural Revolution were overthrown in a coup that same year. Pol Pot then explicitly denounced the Cultural Revolution as "counterrevolutionary." Instead of Hollywood, the New Republic or CIA covering its tracks, we recommend that people read what the protagonists actually said and also keep the chronology in mind. We had nothing against Khmer Rouge's knocking out the U.S. puppet regime in 1975. If other "Marxists" had done it, we would have something to talk about. However, as usual, it was the revolutionaries in the legacy of Stalin and Mao who did the fighting. Soon after,
Pol Pot changed his line on the Cultural Revolution and gained
support from the number 2 target of the Cultural Revolution who
came back to power in China--Deng Xiaoping. As it
stands, the historical amnesia on these questions leads to a whitewash of the U.S. imperialist war on the peoples of Indochina. mim3 for the Maoist Internationalist Movement (how 'bout Pat
as my name) From owner-marxism Mon Sep 11 00:08:04 1995
From: "John R. Ernst"
Maoist Internationalist Movement
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MIM replies: What you are talking about is aid from state capitalist China. We too mourned the loss of laboring class life during the Vietnam-China war.