Three Main Points
MIM differs from other communist parties on
three main questions:
- MIM holds that after the proletariat seizes power in socialist revolution,
the potential exists for capitalist restoration under the leadership of a new
bourgeoisie within the communist party itself. In the case of the USSR, the
bourgeoisie seized power after the death of Stalin in 1953; in
China, it was after Mao's death and the overthrow of the "Gang of Four" in
1976.
- MIM upholds the Chinese Cultural
Revolution as the farthest advance of communism in human history.
- As Marx, Engels and Lenin formulated and MIM has reiterated through
materialist analysis, imperialism extracts super-profits from the Third World
and in part uses this wealth to buy off whole populations of oppressor nation
so-called workers. These so-called workers bought off by imperialism form a
new petty-bourgeoisie called the labor aristocracy. These classes are not the
principal vehicles to advance Maoism within those countries because their
standards of living depend on imperialism. At this time, imperialist
super-profits create this situation in the Canada, Quebec, the United $tates,
England, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Israel, Sweden and Denmark. (See MIM Theory #1 on the
White-Working Class and MIM Theory #10 on the
Labor Aristocracy and Imperialism and
its Class Structure in 1997)
MIM accepts people as members who agree on these basic principles and accept
democratic
centralism, the system of majority rule, on other questions of party line.
"The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We
should regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not
merely a matter of learning terms and phrases, but of learning Marxism-Leninism
as the science of revolution." --Mao Zedong, Selected Works, Vol. II. p.
208.
At its 1995 Party Congress, MIM passed a political program
outlining what we want and what we believe.