"Without support from the revolutionary struggles 
of the oppressed nations and people of Asia Africa 
and Latin America, it will be <B>impossible</B> for the 
proletariat and the people in capitalist Europe 
and America to free themselves from the calamities 
of capitalist oppression and of the menace of 
imperialist war. Therefore, the proletarian 
parties of the metropolitan imperialist countries 
are duty bound to heed the voice of the 
revolutionary people in these regions, study their 
experience, respect their revolutionary feelings 
and support their revolutionary struggles. They 
have no right whatsoever to flaunt their seniority 
before these people, to put on lordly airs, to 
carp and cavil, like Comrade Thorez of France who 
so arrogantly and disdainfully speaks of them as 
being 'young and inexperienced'. Much less have 
they the right to take a social-chauvinist 
attitude, slandering, cursing, intimidating and 
obstructing the fighting revolutionary people in 
these regions."

--Mao Zedong, 1963
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/classics/mao/polemics/tog2_3.html

[mim3@mim.org comments: The boldface above is mine.
In his polemics with the Eurocommunists, Mao stressed over and over 
again strategic confidence in the Asian, African and Latin
American exploited and oppressed and he showed over and over again 
how failure in such confidence led to pacifism being pushed
on the oppressed, <a href="../wim/wyl/crypto/rcpproductiveforces.txt">the theory of the productive
forces</a> and reformism. The reason for that is that there are classes
and global camps of countries divided between oppressed and oppressor
and certain lines inevitably go together and lead to each other, because
underneath the various political lines are coherent classes and nations.

The above quote is highly signficant, because Mao openly used the
word "impossible" in reference to the approach of imperialist country
people to having revolution in their own countries the way Mao did in 
China. MIM itself has not gone so far, because after nuclear war or
further environmental devastation of catastrophic proportions, the class
situation in the imperialist countries could change and then create
a basis internal to those countries for a revolution on the basis of their
own internal social forces.]