This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
Breaking With Old Ideas (1975)
Made in China during the Cultural Revolution, dramatizing the
struggle for proletarian control of education at an agricultural
college during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1959). Makes it clear
that leading party members can still promote bourgeois ideas and only
the masses can rectify these leaders (or remove them if necessary)
to ensure that education truly helps to build socialism. An excellent
introduction to the politics of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural
Revolution. Full of concrete examples of how class struggle continues
under socialism and how communists can wage that struggle successfully:
by mobilizing the masses to criticize those in positions of authority
taking the capitalist road.