*See our article building for IRTR
*See our article on Internet security
By Web Minister, March 31 2006
Recently there have been some revealing outbursts on the IRTR. It is our position here that the majority of identities at IRTR are in fact fake one way or another. We have cops, intelligence agencies and crypto-Trotskyist zombies which are often indistinguishable from government agents. They constitute the majority of identities. Then we have a minority of real people who actually engage the material. There are those actually thinking about exploitation and surplus-value and some who are reading Marx's Capital.
Our position is that the People's University and Marxist Economics section of the IRTR need to be protected, but the rest as they are are simply playgrounds for the enemy. Some have gone so far as to announce their intention to infiltrate. Many good things have been said in the other sections of IRTR, but that does not outweigh the need to advance other aspects of the struggle.
In MIM's opinion, there are Liberal theories and Maoist approaches to the struggle at IRTR.
1) Liberals are on record saying that the only way to struggle against government infiltrators is to discuss
their line.
2) Similarly, white nationalists believe the problem of the imperialist countries is "false consciousness" and
hence aimless and endless talk serves the consciousness of the proletarian forces.
In contrast, MIM holds:
1) Government infiltrators can be made to work hard. Mao said "no investigation, no right to speak." There
could also be "no action, no right to speak."
2) Getting hands on proletarian action is more likely to bring benefits than pure discussion, because false
consciousness is not the problem, and numbers are going to be small.
Toward these ends, MIM makes the following suggestions.
1. Disable guest posting and new identity sign-ups.
2. Toss all previous identitities except those that meet one of these criteria:
a. made substantive contributions in either "Marxist Economics" or "People's University"
b. have a record of Maoist work, at mimnotes.info, administering the website etc., inviting
people (e.g. romanw, romanmeal).
3. Take responsibility of mimnotes.info under the new name of irtrnotes.info and accept
it's current editor as leader of irtrnotes.info.
This is slightly different than the previous suggestions of shutting everything down except two sections of the website. This proposal goes further in some sense in proposing a purge along lines that people in IRTR can understand without special "inside information."
Currently, white nationalism is choking off most of the Internet discussions in the imperialist countries. It is very difficult to have a discussion with people of serious intent. IRTR has tried for quite some time to cull the most serious people. IRTR also has a good idea that some people are not making serious contributions. They should go with that observation and implement a practice according to it.
Although white nationalists try to choke off anything but white nationalist discussion everywhere, the truth is that people still read the materials of the proletarian camp. It's wrong to believe we can really implement "mass line" with the population inside imperialist country borders, but that does not yet mean the parasite classes do not chew on what we say, right from our websites and defunct discussion groups with web pages still up.
With regard to mimnotes.info, as Web Minister and also in terms of MIM Notes editing, the etext-based Maoist cell does not provide as much discussion as IRTR does. We should not see what we call functional competition without accountability. That happens when functions are spread into different places and a persyn has to spend varying amounts of times under various structures.
Another possibility would be to make mimnotes.info its own cell. In our opinion, this might continue a problem if joint projects with IRTR arise. The nature of this whole problem would be clearer if we had a Soviet administration with paid salaries. The Metallurgy Ministry might pay someone's salary and then that comrade might mostly work in the Chemistry Ministry. That might be fine from the point of view of the proletariat, but it raises problems of accountability. In an all-volunteer situation, it's hard to see that, but we should be thinking of lines of accountability and their political meaning anyway.
Zinoviev told the Germans they might have to throw out 4 out of 5 to have a party that would really oppose World War I. Today with increased parasitism, if we have 140 people we should not be surprised to end up with 14 who oppose parasitism in practice. These 14 can then go on to new organizing work and outreach and start the process anew.
The IRTR has moved from marxleninmao.proboards43.com to www.irtr.org.