[The following was on http://marxleninmao.proboards43.com posted November 11, 2005
by mim3@mim.org]

The latest issue of Off Our Backs has food for thought.

http://www.offourbacks.org

In it, they attack the RąP=u$A for preparing articles for Hustler magazine in 
connection to NION.

One might expect me to jump on the RąP=u$A for that, but if Larry Flynt wants to 
put MIM articles in his magazine, he is free to do so as long as he credits the 
source. That is stated right on our web page. (Larry Flynt is a major 
pornographer known for the more violent end of hard-core porn, but he is also as 
combative as Michael Moore against Bu$h, just like RąP=u$A.)

MIM does not prepare articles specially for certain media and we've turned down 
major radio and TV interviews, because of our sense of a lack of control of the 
situation in which ignorance of Maoism is too high to really be able to go to a 
bourgeois media outlet and have a good result. But that is too thin a difference 
between us and RąP=u$A for me to attack RąP=u$A on this point, because even 
though we would not prepare articles for Flynt, (and potentially water down our 
message from thinking too hard about his audience), he could take them from our 
web page.

On the other hand, for the posers who have come here to do RąP=u$A bidding on 
this question, obviously they are hellishly opportunist.

So read this and see why MIM is not going to easily attack on this question. 
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/wim/cong/piraoporn.html

Recently, we had a little sectarian mountain-toppism in which MIM faced an 
accusation. Yet we were able to point to that 2000 resolution and say that MIM 
does not refuse to give credit where credit is due. When MIM is willing to 
credit pornographers, it puts some of the other sectarian disputes we might have 
in better perspective. It becomes difficult to say MIM would not endure 
embarassment to its own organization when someone else does a better job of 
something.