MIM NOTES No. 201            January 1, 2000

MIM on Prisons & Prisoners

MIM seeks to build public opinion against Amerika's criminal 
injustice system, and to eventually replace the bourgeois 
injustice system with proletarian justice. The bourgeois injustice 
system imprisons and executes a disproportionately large and 
growing number of oppressed people while letting the biggest mass 
murderers -- the imperialists and their lackeys -- roam free. 
Imperialism is not opposed to murder or theft, it only insists 
that these crimes be committed in the interests of the 
bourgeoisie.

All U.S. citizens are criminals--accomplices and accessories to 
the crimes of U.$. oppression globally until the day U.$. 
imperialism is overcome. All U.S. citizens should start from 
the point of view that they are reforming criminals.

MIM does not advocate that all prisoners go free today; we have a 
more effective program for fighting crime as was demonstrated in 
China prior to the restoration of capitalism there in 1976. We say 
that all prisoners are political prisoners because under the 
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, all imprisonment is substantively 
political. It is our responsibility to exert revolutionary 
leadership and conduct political agitation and organization among 
prisoners -- whose material conditions make them an overwhelmingly 
revolutionary group. Some prisoners should and will work on self-
criticism under a future dictatorship of the proletariat in those 
cases in which prisoners really did do something wrong by 
proletarian standards.