CPN(Mashal) degeneration is a product of the RIM by the International Minister for the Maoist Internationalist Movement It appears that we now have "both sides" of a conflict in Nepal in print now on the Internet. At the 7th Conference of an organization of parties called the ICMLPO, the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations, the Communist Party of Nepal(Mashal) responded to the RIM. By following this open dispute, we can learn some things about party-to-party relations globally. CPN(Mashal) engages in one part exposure and one part self-exposure. "As you know, NCP (Mashal) is a founding member of Revolutionary International Movement (RIM) since 1984. From the very beginning, Mashal has to fight against RIMīs Trotskyite trend, mainly RCP, USA's antagonistic attack against Stalin. After the resignation of TKP (ML) of Turkey and CRC, CPI (ML) of India, the CO-RIM was turned into the puppet of RCP, USA. Trotskyite Line became a dominant political line of RIM whereas the role of Marxist-Leninist Parties became a secondary one. Mashal's prolonged and principled struggle against such deviation for about one and half decade made RIM antagonistic to Mashal as well. As a result, Mashal was expelled from RIM in 1998" is what CPN(Mashal) says about RIM, and especially the "RCP-USA" role,(1) all of which is true, and something MIM has been saying for more than 15 years now. From the beginning, the RIM has claimed a long list of organizations to justify its self-existence. Right away we saw a number of them degenerate and dissolve. Then there were Third World RIM parties that started having trouble with the RIM as well--the full details of which we do not get into here. Now we see that the RIM contributes to dissolution of organizations, and degenerations, not to mention unprincipled splits. MIM's line is that every Maoist party must have a grip on its own conditions. We do not claim to understand all aspects of party- building in all countries, but the RIM more or less does, as it believes in creating a new COMINTERN. Right in our http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maoism, a pro-RIM persyn refuted the crackpot Rolf Martens by saying that the other parties in RIM never said "RCP-USA" was a CIA front, as if those other parties should actually be in charge of knowing that. For its part, the Co-RIM has responded to the CPN(Mashal) with a bit of self-exposure as well: "Just as the comrades there had to fight to repudiate the rightist line of M.B. Singh, the leader of the Nepal Communist Party (Mashal), so too our whole Movement had to combat Singh, who was the only force in RIM who argued strenuously against the adoption of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in 1993."(2) In other words, while spitting at MIM, calling it "counter- revolutionary" and using the list of RIM signatories supposedly engaged in the new-day COMINTERN as legitimacy for itself, RIM was harboring a party led by someone not claiming to be Maoist from 1984 to 1998. That's quite an admission, and far from all that rots inside the RIM, but an indication of just what is going on. The CPN(Mashal) for its part also has some self-exposure to do: "In the communist movement of Nepal, the line of īleftī deviation is represented by CPN (Maoist) and right one is by CPN (UML). The Maoists are waging the so-called Peoplesī War for about the last six years. We think that the line of armed struggle adopted by Maoists is 'ultra-left' deviation and it does not confirm with the subjective and objective conditions of our country. Their movement has been capitalised by the King and other royalist forces to serve their own political interests by trying to abolish the present parliamentary democracy and attempting to reinstate the dictatorial rule of the king again in the country."(1) This is precisely what reformists always say, that the revolution itself justifies maneuvers by the ruling class, so therefore there should be no revolution. CPN(Mashal) goes on to say: "At present, the Maoists have entered into so-called peace talk with the government postponing their armed struggle. Initially, they had three political demands to the government for a peace talk; the establishment of Republic government, election of constitutional Assembly and formation of interim government. But considering their opportunistic character and the style of peace talk, it looks like that they are prepared to compromise to their first two demands and stick only to their last demand of interim government. At present, their primary objective is to share power in collaboration with reactionary forces. This also clearly indicates that sooner or later they are going to change themselves from 'ultra-left' deviation to the rightist one."(1) Such would be an interesting statement only coming from a party that itself was leading armed struggles--or so anyone with a materialist method can realize. In the imperialist countries, we would leave the statements above by CPN(Mashal) at the level of degeneration and be done with it. However, in Nepal, the material basis for parties like the CPN (Mashal) to exist seems highly questionable. Yes, in Peru too we have seen organizations calling themselves Maoists justify opposing People's War. In this case, the RIM has helped along degeneration. MIM is not the only organization to notice that the "RCP-USA" justifies its own lack of analysis of U.$. conditions by using the armed struggles in the Third World, neo-colonial sectarianism. However, while claiming credit for the People's War in Nepal, the Co- RIM does not give us a listing of all the organizations that dissolved, degenerated or quit. There is no excuse for the CPN(Mashal) to oppose People's War. Those with a theory of a weak or non-existent state in Nepal should have stayed with the CPN(UML) reformists who were once the government in power in Nepal. Claiming to be Maoist and then issuing the standard Menshevik line against armed struggle is revisionism that the CPN (Mashal) must take responsibility for. However, the case of the CPN (Mashal) reeks of mishandling around the Stalin question, the labor aristocracy and party-to-party relations. Part of the RIM from 1984 to 1998, and used by the "RCP-USA" the whole time, the CPN(Mashal)'s line is also a product of the RIM. For those seeking a COMINTERN, the blame goes with the credit. Could it be that banging their heads against the crypto-Trotskyist wall, the CPN(Mashal) comrades became disoriented and dizzy? We will never know how the CPN(Mashal) would have developed if it had not been wrapped up in the RIM. It seems unlikely to MIM that interaction with the "RCP-USA" representatives of the philistine class helped the CPN(Mashal) any. CPN(Mashal) jumped from the frying pan into the fire when it hooked up with the ICMLPO, which is led by the MLPD, the German party claiming Maoism that believes imperialist country petty-bourgeoisie ideology is rampant while the imperialist country petty-bourgeoisie is even less existing than what the "RCP- USA" says. The MLPD champions the labor aristocracy even more openly than the "RCP-USA" and not surprisingly it associates with parties explicitly opposed to People's Wars in Peru, India and now Nepal. Lenin said in "Imperialism," in the 1920 preface to the German and French editions that "This stratum of bourgeoisified workers, or the 'labour aristocracy,' who are quite philistine in their mode of life, in the size of their earnings and in their entire outlook, is the principal prop of the Second International, and, in our days, the principal social (not military) prop of the bourgeoisie. For they are the real agents of the bourgeoisie in the working-class movement, the labour lieutenants of the capitalist class, real channels of reformism and chauvinism. In the civil war between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie they inevitably, and in no small numbers, take the side of the bourgeoisie, the 'Versaillese' against the 'Communards.' "Unless the economic roots of this phenomenon are understood and its political and social significance is appreciated, not a step can be taken toward the solution of the practical problems of the Communist movement and of the impending social revolution." Here it is 2002 and the "RCP-USA" finds time to piss on Stalin, tell MIM we are "wack" on the German labor aristocracy in 1945 (and contrary to what the Peking Review had to say in 1966) and sing praise of the "two streams" of the revolutionary movement, but it has had no time to put forward a detailed analysis of the extraction of surplus-value or how far reparations have to go to bring down the economic relations of imperialism. The degeneration of the CPN (Mashal) reminds MIM of the last sentence above from Lenin. The RIM is not ready to take even a step thanks principally to the "RCP- USA," which should have an analysis of super-profits on the tip of its tongue already by the year 2002. Notes: 1. http://www.icmlpo.de/us/7con/country/nepal.htm 2. http://www.csrp.org/rim/awtw26-corim-intv00.html [MIM does not have a COMINTERN and only recruits in imperialist countries and internal semi-colonies. We warn imperialist country readers that it is not an easy job to know who really represents what in Third World Maoist parties under siege and some thousands of miles away from imperialist countries. We at MIM do not claim it is easy and hence do not put much stake in the COMINTERN approach of the RIM. The above two sources are the basis of this article. If it turns out for instance that genuine representatives of CPN(Mashal) did not even show up at the ICMLPO, MIM would not be surprised.. That would be typical of relations between imperialist country parties and oppressed nation parties.]