This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
Maoist Internationalist Movement

Criticizing the Critics:
"Carl Miller/RCP=U$A"

IRTR has reported a blogger supporting the RCP=U$A who has indirectly spoken in favor of Mormon polygamy practices and libelled MIM.

Carl Miller opposes MIM's joke about Mormons who marry their kidnappers, but it is a well-documented fact that some hard-core Mormons in Utah and the surrounding region order their child daughters into marriages and sometimes look the other way when a marriage results from a kidnapping. This is proof that Amerikkkans should be focussing on their own gender problems and not going to Afghanistan bragging.

Carl Miller says:

"http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/art/humor/antiamerikanjokes.html

5. How does the Amerikan womyn avoid the singles bar scene? Answer: She marries her kidnapper.

KIDNAPPING AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMYN, or WIMMIN, or even WOMEN IS NOT FUNNY. "

It is RCP=U$A again denying this truth about Mormons and Amerikkkans who tolerate it--again because they have the view that Euro-Amerikans are some kind of revolutionary vehicle with white man's burden and they don't want to admit that in the areas Amerikkkans often talk about other cultures, the united $tates is just as backward or more backward. At the time of MIM's jokes, an infamous Mormon case was in the press and simultaneously the media was attacking Islamic practices of polygamy.

We should also point out that the anti-Amerikan jokes are about war in that section. Does Carl Miller think war is funny? Why does Carl Miller single out defending Mormons from jokes, because they are mostly white in Utah while the victims of u.$. wars are mostly Third World? Did Carl Miller attack all the jokes Mao made about subjects as diverse as the Great Leap, himself and Truman sending him weapons free in the war? Is war funny now RCP=U$A? What is your objection to Mao's joking about war? This again is just another example of how RCP=U$A fails to put a line into practice on gender, a line with all the implications thought through.

The real joke is the RCP=U$A line on gender. There has never been an attempt by RCP=u$a to grapple with the leading activists against rape inside u.$. borders--MacKinnon and Dworkin. So we're not surprised that the most they can do is talk about jokes.

The libel in Carl Miller's comments is that there was a joke about rape that MIM took down. I am the Web Minister, and I never had to take down a joke about war, rape, sex in general or anything else. As Web Minister I also do not recall ever reading Miller's blog and certainly I did not read anything about a joke that I needed to take down. If Miller thinks it was there, there are numerous web services that can retrieve old archives of the MIM website. A joke with the incorrect spin that serves Mormonism or the u.$. imperialists would be an example of infiltration of MIM and it would be important to point it out. Short of finding the joke with the incorrect spin, Miller should retract, apologize and shut up.

As MIM has said, the RCP=U$A is an excuse for police agents and intelligence gathering. The open line of that organization is that "nothing can be done" about infiltration except "two-line struggle." It cannot be taken seriously as a communist organization.

The other points that Carl Miller makes are the usual pragmatist points about numbers. Again, people that backward do not interest MIM. It is unfortunate that we have to respond to their libels at all.

RCP=U$A should disown Carl Miller's libels. It's clear that he's frustrated for not having readers and talks trash in an attempt to get them. At best, he's completely irresponsible in going so far as to mix himself up with cop tactics.