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June 29 2007
We find ourselves on a new terrain of struggle that many still have not caught up to. However, we are making progress in getting out of our ruts.
To translate this into our own language, we have many worried that MIM is ultra-left currently. Many are the same people who never agreed with us on the labor aristocracy anyway. This has to do with how MIM has sharpened the intellectual struggle to be apart from but reinforcing the lumpen struggle. The clearest indicator of the shift is toward MIM's emphasis on countering spying.
Through no fault of our own, those who are not street organizers and show no ability to navigate Aesopian language need to be discounted in the revolutionary sense. We have many in solidarity with the lumpen who might by themselves end up in reformist territory, the way the Black Panthers did without Huey Newton. For an intellectual to pass on the counter-intelligence struggle is at best right opportunism.
Many of us have emphasized street smarts or supporting those with street smarts. That is a start, but the most revolutionary possibilities come from also maximizing the intellectual struggle along with the lumpen struggle. As the CIA recently learned at a New York meeting of MIM's, prison reform is a good thing. What the CIA did not learn is what had already been discussed in 2005.
There are some people who when they go to a restaurant in Podunk, have to be told to get off at the only exit on the highway for Podunk. Others can think ahead miles down the highway and don't have to be told. Unfortunately, it has turned out that MIM's enemies have to be told about the exit. Some of them even want to pay for the gas to the exit on an installment plan just to make sure the exit is really there first.
Also, now the websites supporting the FBI against First Nations people put up three different threats against MIM. One ended up quickly taken down. Another two are still up. Ah yes, it casts a different light on what is really going on.
A word of advice to our federal enemies--time to think about how appropriate the cards we have played are for each context we are in. Find the exits yourselves instead of playing the same old cards. What we have to say to people who play the wrong cards, obviously you just are not very observant. MIM is so reasonable that even half-way through 2007, it has only gone through one quarter of the struggles conceived in 2006. That is also a word to our camp not to neglect the intellectual struggle.
Also enemies, perhaps you do not remember MIM playing cards before. Maybe you actually found us at a craps table we were used to sitting at, but you should not be playing dice at all. You are in the totally wrong casino, because you overreached your territory.
On June 28, there was a very significant news story on the MIM-related part of the Ward Churchill struggle. If you did not see it and understand, too bad, sink or swim.
MIM is pausing on Ward Churchill now, to give some people time to catch up but also to open other subject areas for struggle. We also want to acknowledge the efforts of others to resolve this problem. It does not mean MIM has lost interest in retaliation if the Colorado regents vote the wrong way. Some of us internally may be intimidated by the Ward Churchill issue for the wrong reasons, but it is connected to the struggle against right opportunism in general. Once we understand the counter-intelligence struggle in practice, we can do a better job lining up our own actions with our own priorities.