/r/communism: MIM(Prisons) is Only Here to Facilitate Discussion

/u/MajesticTree954 on reddit.com:

“MIMP’s ULK is pretty good, because of a relatively more advanced political line, but is also stunted in my view because of the line of a decentralized cell-structure. When you have an ideological leadership, but that leadership insists that it is purely educational, purely to help facilitate discussion for others (as MIMP believes) you’re relying on spontaneity and now acknowledging the importance of your own leadership.”

Wiawimawo of MIM(Prisons) responds: MIM(Prisons) has never claimed that it is a purely educational organization, and it is an insult to the years of hard work of our comrades to claim that is our position. Please do quote us next time you want to put words in our mouths. You can see how we define ourselves by reading What is MIM(Prisons)?. You can see our list of campaigns for some of the things we do that aren’t education programs, and these appear in every issue of ULK that this poster claims is “pretty good.”

People want to blame the lack of revolutionary activity in the United $tates on MIM’s resolution on cell structure of 2005. As if our organization would somehow be bigger now without it.

Education is foundational to our mission. That is how we build cadre and mass leaders. You can say our campaigns are pathetic if you want, but you can’t say we don’t do them. You can say our serve the people programs are meager, but you can’t say they’re all educational. You can say our strategy is wrong, but you can’t say our comrades haven’t spent 1000s of hours agitating around censorship and torture in prisons, attending events, putting on events, building with other organizations, etc.

We are very proud of the fact that MIM(Prisons) still exists, and is once again growing, after the setbacks we faced. You know who doesn’t still exist? the majority of the other organizations we’ve allied with over the years. Yet it’s our fault the movement is so weak? What do our critics think it takes to build a party? Critics need to step the fuck up, instead of telling other people to form a party.

i’m not special, i’m just consistent.