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Editor's Introduction

During our 1995 Congress, MIM adopted an important new resolution, reprinted below. Some of the work leading up to this decision appears in this issue of MIM Theory, especially the long review of the Comintern's work on the question of the labor aristocracy. Here MIM advances our developing line on the international communist movement. And we take responsibility for pressing the world's imperialist-country communists in particular to come to grips with the sweeping international implications of labor aristocracy parasitism.

Resolution: The question of the labor aristocracy is an international line of demarcation No International that has respect for national conditions in the spirit of Mao, or joint declaration involving imperialist country Maoists, will gain MIM's adherence without the following preconditions of membership by imperialist country parties if other imperialist country parties are involved:

  1. The recognition of superprofits extracted from the oppressed nations as a central fact of economic life in the imperialist countries.
  2. Upholding Lenin's distinction between labor bureaucrats and labor aristocrats.
  3. Upholding Lenin's distinction between the labor aristocracy and the proletariat.
  4. Seeking the dictatorship of the proletariat where that is defined as excluding the labor aristocracy.

In addition, MIM will not adhere to any international organization of communists or joint declaration or communique involving imperialist country parties that does not recognize that the imperialist country or "white" proletariat is either non-existent or a tiny minority as indicated in the conditions of white-collar work and the pay of those workers. This has become a matter of applying the science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in the imperialist countries and continuing with the methods and definitions of "proletarian" and "labor aristocracy" laid down since Lenin.

We encourage all imperialist-country parties, and all other revolutionaries, to seriously consider the arguments put forward on these pages and debate them with us. We will devote space in future issues of MIM Theory to such exchanges.

This issue also includes in-depth reviews of the early Black Panther Party, which brings to light the powerful Maoism of the 1968-69 period, and of a recent biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. With the Comintern pieces, the further empirical investigations into the labor aristocracy, and the collection of reviews and correspondence, this issue serves to focus Maoists on the theoretical and strategic tasks we urgently confront.

--MC12