Having it both ways: 
Belated admissions from B.A. tacking for the MIM position

The contradictions in the published positons of 
B.A. and also among B.A. supporters or between 
B.A. and B.A. supporters would take a website full 
of gigabytes to resolve, because there is no 
centralism in that party and more importantly no 
line other than to follow a cult leader.

This page is dedicated to how the r¢p=u$a seems to 
tack for the MIM position in the last couple years 
while simultaneously attacking the same positions 
it tacks for. It's very reminiscent of how their 
allies both oppose and support the peace accords 
hoax in Peru. The advantage of their approach is 
in recruiting inattentive people. By taking both 
sides of any question, it is possible to please 
everybody who does not pay attention much.

The subjects in which the r¢p=u$a has tacked 
(sometimes more, sometimes less) for MIM's 
position in recent years without taking a 
consistent stand overall and without handling 
their own past positions include 1) the Black 
Panthers 2) Trotskyism 3) masses 4) gay/lesbian 
question.

At least on the question of gays/lesbians they've 
made some self-criticism, but they are actively 
denying obvious historical truth at the same time. 
However, most of their tacking in our direction 
does not come with self-criticism at all and 
cannot be taken seriously as anything more than 
tactical opportunism. When a party changes a 
position that it took for a long time, it is 
supposed to go through self-criticism of its own 
positions, to show that it knows what its own 
history is.

"They are not a revolutionary people now." RW 
#1270

"And the experience we accumulate in handling 
these things well and the way in which the masses 
learn to do this in growing numbers—as Lenin said 
masses means different things under different 
circumstances. When you don't have a revolutionary 
situation, masses might refer to a few hundred 
people or a few thousand people in a given area. 
When you get a real mass upsurge in society, 
masses becomes tens, hundreds of thousands, even 
millions. When you get a revolutionary situation, 
it becomes a great part of society that is called 
into political life. So, when we talk about 
'masses' now, we're not talking about millions and 
millions of people at this point; we're talking 
about relatively small numbers, we're talking 
about thousands of people who can be drawn into 
these processes. But that's very important 
preparation for when millions are called into 
motion."

RW #1272 after referring to almost everyone as 
"masses" two weeks earlier <a 
href="crypto/rcpmasses.txt">Compare with 
say Rolpa attacking MIM</a>