Greetings from Obninsk Maoists
Dear Comrades!
The Obninsk City Organization of the All-Union Leninist Communist Union of Youth (VLKSM) and of the Revolutionary Young Communist League (RKSM(b)) extends its fraternal greetings to the 1999 Congress of the Maoist International Movement (MIM) and wishes it success in its functioning. Let this Congress become a major milestone on the road to fulfilling MIM's principal goal--building a united proletarian-led front within the borders of the citadel of world imperialism, the U$A.
Despite MIM's relatively limited numerical strength and its extremely difficult working conditions, we are glad to find in your organization's activities the most consistent and the least dogmatic application of the science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the realities of today's world. We sincerely hope MIM will continue proudly carrying forward the red banner of proletarian internationalism and world revolution!
Our country, Russia, belongs to the circle of countries 'intermediate' between the oppressed 'Third World' and the imperialist nations. On the one hand, there is the presence of a genuine proletariat in principle capable of mass anti-capitalist action plus Russia's heavy dependence on, and exploitation by, the imperialist countries. On the other hand, there are survivals of the Khrushchevite-Brezhnevite revisionist international policy, deprived of its progressive component (support for national liberation struggles all over the world) but preserving its essentially imperialist character; a growing percentage of the petty bourgeosie and the formation of Westernized, parasitic enclaves (e. g. the city of Moscow). In these conditions we hope for the success in Russia both of traditional Maoism (originally elaborated in and for underdeveloped colonial countries) and of newer perspectives on it developed by MIM.
Proletarians and oppressed nations of all countries, unite!
Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Contact MIM by writing mim@mim.org