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Mao's birthday is coming up in the holidays December 26th, and we are experiencing the least sunlight of the year as Winter Solstice approaches. So MIM will try to say something cheerful for once. We will try to put aside our reputation as "Grim Notes."
Many young intellectuals think of MIM as the organization that sent the Black Book of Communism back to the drawing board. When MIM launched its campaign, and after the thousands of stupid journalistic reviews appeared and after academia gave the book too much of a lazy pass, according to Harvard University Press, the Black Book of Communism was on schedule to become paperback in less than six months. Five years later, it looks safe to say that this paperback did not come out! Nor is the reason the popularity of the hardcover. It ranks in at over 100,000 at Amazon. Now when will the French and the European Parliament that used the book as a basis for votes potentially to ban communist parties get it? We eagerly await the next round of battle.
In the fall of 2006, MIM launched a series of cryptic struggles and finally gave our enemies what they really were looking for all these years. The real-world implications are still popping up mid-way into December. We can say there is a fire lighting the kindling already. No matter what happens now, the cryptic struggles of fall 2006 will have far greater impact than MIM's other single intellectual enterprises.
The access cost for the cryptic struggles was the highest of any struggle MIM has undertaken. It has to be admitted that the cryptic struggles left the lumpen behind, but we cannot always undertake the same struggles and same pattern all the time.
One long-time friend of the party realized what had happened right away and reported that if MIM's cryptic struggle was possible, then anything is possible in the revolution. That is the correct attitude, what one will feel subjectively when one perceives 75% of what happened or just understands the most important of the cryptic struggles.
The killer part of the whole thing is that this struggle will actually have the most impact among the people who hate MIM the most and it's too late for the rulers to take back their mistakes. The cryptic struggles of 2006 will still have their weight felt 25 years into the future, if imperialism lasts until 2031.
The labor aristocracy can go on saying MIM is crazy. We have written them off. Among intellectuals, MIM is batting a much higher percentage rate. For the first time, and specifically for this holiday season, we will now report a little on the history of intellectual opposition to MIM as an indication why the rulers made a big mistake getting down in the dirt with us in 2006.
If we focus on the earliest of intellectual opposition to MIM, and if we take the first three people who felt so strongly they were willing to go to the media to attack MIM, we find that all three changed their minds within 20 years. The first one changed her mind in a matter of months and explained that she was from a conservative background. She had made speeches against MIM and launched an activist-style campaign. The situation in El Salvador convinced her that MIM was right.
The second conservative intellectual was a member of the same anti-MIM campaign but added radio appearances and was involved in more various issues. 20 years later he told us that it seemed to him at the time that MIM was always prepared for his arguments. He said years later he used tactics and inspiration from MIM to save a city hospital. MIM was quite shocked to hear this.
Finally, there was an intellectual who was the most aggressive in the lot in opposing MIM and he was a generation older than anyone in MIM. What he did against MIM was so scandalous that liberals went into print defending MIM. This example is the real kicker for MIM's current enemies. Shortly before death, this intellectual apologized, gave MIM inside poop on a Republocratic nominee for president (that MIM did not use), gave MIM intelligence on goings-on with top corporate leaders and offered to pull strings on our behalf literally in his dying days.
These examples raise the whole question of what is the survival rate of opposition to MIM among intellectuals. We can take confidence in these examples filtering back to MIM over the years. In 2006, we have already received many indications from places most dangerous to imperialism that not only was there a message received but that the message has already been positively absorbed.
As the Hollywood promoters say, "it's when they stop talking about you that you're in trouble." Love or hate, it works either way. The people who hate MIM the most are a great danger to the system. They are the most likely to pay attention to what is being said and what is going on. Everywhere in the country are intellectuals who also realize, "there is no proletarian camp here! It's me or no one." In 2006, we see dragons of the future taking shape.
There is every reason to believe that the ones who hated us the most especially in 2006 are the ones in the future who are going to do the most damage. Knowing that there is a communist group on paper is one thing, but intellectuals who actually get down into the dirt with MIM end up being grave threats to the system.