This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
Three Main Points
MIM differs from other communist parties on three main questions:
- MIM holds that after the proletariat seizes power in socialist
revolution, the potential exists for capitalist restoration under the
leadership of a new bourgeoisie within the communist party itself. In
the case of the USSR, the bourgeoisie seized power after the death of Stalin in 1953; in China, it was after Mao's
death and the overthrow of the "Gang of Four" in 1976.
- MIM upholds the Chinese Cultural
Revolution as the farthest advance of communism in human
history.
- MIM believes the North American white-working-class is primarily
a non-revolutionary worker-elite at this time; thus, it is not the
principal vehicle to advance Maoism in this country.
MIM accepts people as members who agree on these basic principles and
accept democratic centralism, the system of
majority rule, on other questions of party line.
"The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally
applicable. We should regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to
action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases,
but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution." --Mao
Zedong, Selected Works, Vol. II. p. 208.
At its 1995 Party Congress, MIM passed a political
program outlining what we want and what we believe.