Comrades must all understand that MIM is trying to sort out who is a cop/spy and who is a comrade. What may seem easy to you may not be easy to us. We often fear that our international comrades are endangered from dealing with us.
Do you have a branch in my country?
Not in the Third World. See another article on branches.
Why not?
We do not stop Third World people from organizing Maoist parties. We encourage them.
They can adopt our principles, but then they need to adopt specific principles for their country.
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-MIM Thought is for the "advanced" parasite countries of imperialism
and their internal semi-colonies only. Other countries must find their own leaders.
But I cannot write my own newspaper.
Then you need to find some bourgeois intellectuals in your country who will help you.
If they ask you why you are interested in MIM, tell them it is the stand on class struggle
that interests you. You must find some intellectuals who know your country's conditions
and win them to the class struggle.
Can you send me newspapers?
Maybe. It would be better to have your own. But to get started we may send you some.
Hopefully these papers will give the intellectuals you find an idea of what you want to do.
If you can afford to print your own, you can always print the MIM Notes that you find on the
website. Printers can use the .pdf format files on the website.
We are looking for some kind of proof that papers sent are not put in the garbage. The U.$. government is documented as doing that--pretending interest in order to destroy work.
I can write my own newspaper or website. Do you have resources to help my struggle?
No. MIM does not give aid to international comrades. MIM gives out free papers inside
u.$. and Kanadian borders with the hopes this will help the Third World when people
return to their countries where there are no Maoist parties. If you have articles for us to print
and you can carry or mail newspapers from the united $tates, that is the easiest way for us to help you.
MIM does pay for translators and first-hand news articles from countries where MIM Thought does not apply. We offered to pay for events on Khruschev revisionism this year in 2006, but no one wanted the piddly money we offered.
At the moment we are also in transition to a new web structure. It is unclear how we will be assisting international parties. For 2006, you can still send articles to mim3@mim.org.
Can you help with the security struggle?
Yes, in principle we agree to help with the security struggle. We try to help the Chinese comrades by doing things
they should not. In other situations of repression we might also do things to fill in a gap.
But you are in a rich country, you must have much money?
Yes, we have much money going into projects here. But on the other hand, our comrades quit too often.
We lost several comrades working on international work, including most previous International Ministers.
In the 2001 furor we lost just one comrade sucked in by the labor aristocracy line
who caused a whole shift in our division of labor and ended up wiping out an international project.
We try to find the right balance between advancing here and assisting comrades abroad. The U.$. people need to understand that they are rich and can help the international cause with money. That is a role in the division of labor. It does not mean we need a world party, but we need an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each country.
What can I do to encourage Amerikans not to drop out of the struggle?
Articles should be convincing. If Amerikkkans see struggles going on in other countries, a minority may overcome their pessimism
and join the joint struggle. We urge comrades to send photographs--preferably with the faces blotted out and no way for
police to identify the location. Photographs can show action taken--passing out MIM Notes, passing out your own literature,
demonstrations or class struggles. Alternatively, if you can translate, then you can do work on translating articles already
on the MIM website.
Comrades should oppose the labor aristocracy line and let imperialist country people know where they stand in money matters on an international plane. Too many Amerikkkans are spending their money and time building Amerikkkan unions and similar oinker projects. The money is really needed elsewhere. Imperialist country comrades should stop their silly drop-out ways. Even just donating money is effective, because even U.$. minimum wage workers are in the top 10 or 15% of the world by income.
The labor aristocracy parties should be smashed. They will not be smashed in the short run, but they should be denounced internationally for spreading the bourgeois line on the international division of labor in the struggle.
Can you send money once we finish articles?
Even this is an international problem. We do not use Western Union.
Senators have bragged how they changed the law to make it more
difficult to use. We noticed a wire service crackdown.
We prefer to send U.$. money orders. Please use PGP or GPG to tell us about this.
How much money can you send for articles?
We can send a few hundred dollars a year per comrade. Comrades should weigh whether the security problems are worth the money.
MIM is not reliable in a quick way on these problems either.
MIM is a volunteer organization. There is no hide-bound bureaucracy defending it, no people on salary. If you are looking for a multi-million dollar operation to help you out, this is not it. We are read on all continents and more than any imperialist country organization except British Trotskyites, but the reason is effective leadership, not a huge budget.
Why do you oppose a world party centralism?
This is a big question handled elsewhere. MIM struggles for increasing unity and in fact does not recognize
parties as Maoist just because they say they are Maoist. Unity and centralism are closely related, but we struggle
for unity, not international centralism.
How do you relate questions of money to political unity?
In matters of money, there is no such thing as being exploited for the communist revolution.
At the moment, we are building business ties separate from fraternal political relations. We try to "buy red" as opposed to
"buying green," but we know it's not going to work as any final substitute for revolution. In "buying red" we seek to purchase
articles/translations useful to MIM but hopefully at high enough prices to be useful to some struggling proletarians.
Our work in this area is slow, our apologies to the international proletariat.