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.
Maoist Internationalist Movement

Strategy and tactics for our current terrain

June 29 2007

We find ourselves on a new terrain of struggle that many still have not caught up to. However, we are making progress in getting out of our ruts.

To translate this into our own language, we have many worried that MIM is ultra-left currently. This has to do with how MIM has sharpened the intellectual struggle to be apart from but reinforcing the lumpen struggle. The clearest indicator of the shift is toward MIM's emphasis on countering spying.

Through no fault of our own, those who are not street organizers show no ability to navigate Aesopian language need to be discounted in the revolutionary sense. We have many in solidarity with the lumpen who might by themselves end up in reformist territory, the way the Black Panthers did without Huey Newton. For an intellectual to pass on the counter-intelligence struggle is at best right opportunism.

Many of us have emphasized street smarts or supporting those with street smarts. That is a start, but the most revolutionary possibilities come from also maximizing the intellectual struggle along with the lumpen struggle.

On June 28, there was a very significant news story on the MIM-related part of the Ward Churchill struggle. If you did not see it and understand, too bad, sink or swim.

MIM is pausing on Ward Churchill now, to give some people time to catch up but also to open other subject areas for struggle. We also want to acknowledge the efforts of others to resolve this problem. It does not mean MIM has lost interest in retaliation if the Colorado regents vote the wrong way. Some of us internally may be intimidated by the Ward Churchill issue for the wrong reasons, but it is connected to the struggle against right opportunism in general. Once we understand the counter-intelligence struggle in practice, we can do a better job lining up our own actions with our own priorities.