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Maoist Internationalist Movement

Note from the Chair

November 1 2007

I have to make severe self-criticism, because I can see now that I have often appeared crass and deluded to people working with MIM this past year, like never before. We said we were working with intellectuals, but many more have worked with us than I thought. This is an example of a right opportunist error, where by inaccurate perception of reality, I ended up taking a lower road than possible. It's not an error of principle, because there are not swarms of Euro- Amerikans working with MIM that I simply refused to acknowledge out of previous analysis, but even just within what we say about intellectuals and lumpen, I underestimated by degrees what is going on internationally and even moreso within U.$. borders.

Earlier in the year, we made not just a course correction for others but also for ourselves regarding the international balance of forces. An offensive with many MIM threads and connections is coming together and does not require MIM to continue to victory. Evenso, some of the key elements of the offensive I lagged in recognizing for many months.

Even worse, within U.$. borders there are many working on many fronts that MIM just has not kept up with. As an example, a Nobel prize winner was engaging MIM this year, and I had to go through two separate stages of very upset delusion to handle it, because I was coming from a totally mistaken place about what was happening.

I have worked too slowly, even while 2006 was going too fast. It's terribly frustrating to watch me miss what was going on I'm sure-- my apologies. I have started to engage literary types of people, but people would be wrong to assume that because MIM is theory-inclined, that therefore we must be literary. It is a struggle for me and most of our past recruits from before we stopped recruiting.

I'm still far behind various rebellious activities that have broken out inside U.$. borders. I would just like to say I'm starting to get that, and can see what some systematic blindspots have been.

I have said that opposition to us is 99.944%. Let's adjust that to 99.444%. That's a big difference. Taking MIM out of the picture would be noticed by many very famous people now.

We're now sure that it is not just the state interested in international politics and hence stirring the pot with MIM. We will fight desperately, not insanely desperately anymore. At the moment, the imperialists are not that popular. In some subgroups of the population, they are in pretty desperate shape themselves.

Because I underestimated our support out there by a few notches, many people became concerned with our state of mind here. Thank you, I'm starting to get it. Hopefully we will account for you better now.