This document was published in MIM Notes 40 (March 4, 1990) and has since been accepted by party-wide vote. It updates somewhat the founding documents and helps distinguish MIM's line from that of other parties. This is also intended to demonstrate, in down-to-Earth terms, what it means to be a communist and Maoist.

As a communist vanguard party, MIM attempts to take a stand on every issue through an informed membership and active discussion in its newspaper and theoretical journal.

MIM knows that it is not possible to change the fundamental nature of the United States without an armed revolution. The ballot box will simply never fundamentally alter the dominance of men over women, the capitalist class over the proletarian class, or the white nation over the Black, Latino and First Nations.

There are several areas, however, which are the main focus of MIM's attack on capitalist Amerika.

The power of oppressor over oppressed groups. In this category the party works to end the oppression of women, oppressed nationals and classes. In the long run, communists also favor the abolition of the state and the distinction between leaders and led, city and countryside and mental and manual labor as well. The destruction of class inequalities will not automatically destroy sexism, heterosexism, national chauvinism or racism and the party must have a separate analysis of these oppressions.

Amongst these issues, MIM focuses on imperialism, social-imperialism and militarism as most strategic at this moment in history. Currently, no movement against oppression can ultimately succeed without the abolition of imperialism and militarism. Imperialism. Lenin defines imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism within a country characterized by large multi-national corporations that invest abroad. This includes the phenomena of the First World taking from the less developed Third World. The United States, Europe and Japan build factories which employ "cheap labor" in underdeveloped countries such as Mexico, Brazil or Singapore. The industries provide only subsistence wages or less to their workers while turning superprofits on the goods which are then sold to the First World.

The same companies use force and generally enjoy the support of the governments in their home countries - imperialist governments - to keep Third World workers in their place and destroy the economy and environment of these countries. The white people who work for these companies in the United States are satisfied with their high wages and cheap goods while the Third World pays the price. MIM believes that all actions by revolutionaries taken in the United States must be dictated by the interests of the international proletariat, which overwhelmingly resides in the Third World.

Social-imperialism. Social-imperialism is a phrase that refers to "socialism in words, imperialism in deeds." It applies to the former Soviet Union after the death of Stalin which had a history of imperialist practices most obvious in the Soviet bombing of Eritrea, the invasion of Afghanistan and the general maneuvering to secure an international sphere of influence.

Militarism. MIM opposes militarism at all levels, from the police at the grassroots to the U.S. military acting as global cops to enforce the U.S. political and economic agenda. This means moving against military research in universities, mobilizing against police power, and supporting liberation struggles against the U.S. military. Ireland, East Timor and the Philippenes are all countries with liberation struggles which MIM supports against imperialism despite varying levels of agreement on the platform or strategy. In all U.S. imperialist wars, including those against other imperialists, MIM hopes for U.S. defeat.

World War is not in the interest of the international proletariat. The proletariat does the dying and the imperialists make the profits. The breadth of the current World War III worsening. MIM believes that as U.S. hegemony crumbles as it has been doing since the mid-1970s, the U.S. military machine is likely to become overextended and even trigger a possible nuclear holocaust. The signs are obvious: the invasions of Lebanon and Grenada, the mining of a Nicaraguan harbor, and the invasions of Panama, Iraq, Somalia and Haiti. U.S. troops are involved in maneuvers world-wide and the potential for a multiple engagements which would strain the All Volunteer Forces is easily foreseen. MIM is vigilant against militarism and imperialism and when U.S. troops are fighting in foreign wars even people without a serious interest in revolutionary change may sympathize with MIM.