[mim3@mim.org comments: The 1994 Congress was consumed with issues of internal organization, which MIM already reported in MT#8 on anarchism. However, some other issues also arose and we present some of the resolutions here.]
This has already come up as a point of conflict in the party with relation to the X work that MIM engages in. I want to articulate a few principles that MIM should be operating under in all work with the masses. In addition to adhereing to the SIO policy with mass organizations, MIM needs more guidelines for work with non-mass organization, namely for those organizations that are coalitions between various groups into which MIM is invited.
For this type of work MIM should consider whether or not the group is a United Front. If it is made up of organizations or individuals from organizations that claim to be parties of some sort, these groups should be treated as United Fronts. From reading Mao and the Philippines literature we learn that United Fronts must be lead by Maoists. Anything less is dangerous to the Maoists on a number of levels.
First, if a Maoist group participates in a UF that is not led by Maoists, it lends it's legitimacy to a group that is going to take non-Maoist actions. If there is some sort of membership and unity in the group then it appears that the Maoist endorses the revisionists and any and all actions agreed upon by the group. It also suggests that people can do work in a non-Maoist organization that is as good as working in a Maoist political party, confusing the masses. In addition, the real life result of this non-Maoist leadership can be seen in the first alliance between the Guomindang and the Chinese Communist Party. Because the CCP gave up their autonomy in that UF and took leadership from the Guomindang they ended up getting massacred. They later made self-criticism for this incorrect strategy.
So if a united front organization forms and asks MIM to join it, the first thing MIM needs to find out is whether or not it is being led by Maoists. Included in this should be our Maoist comrades abroad. For instance, if the PCP formed a UF in the U.S. under it's own leadership then that would be under Maoist leadership. Individual people who call themselves Maoists but are not members of any party are not really Maoists: Maoists are Leninists and recognize the need for a revolutionary party. MIM could go to UFs and argue that they should accept Maoist leadership, either from MIM or from other groups if they do not originally operate that way.
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