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Maoist Internationalist Movement

1992 MIM Congress

"Crazy dictators," recorded as passed by Congress May 10, 1992

[mim3@mim.org comments: In 1992, MIM was starting to notice that it was having some perpetual organizational issues having to do with party structure. One document passed by Congress, thereafter referred to as "crazy dictators" became a concrete reference point of internal struggle that later culminated in an anarchist wind in the party.]

Central Committee resolution from MC5

Spirit of resolution

MIM realizes that the bourgeoisie has trained youth, women and oppressed nationalities to avoid the assumption of power, especially in organized fashion. In principle, the Central Committee must recognize that the more time it spends managing the details of bureaucratic work, the less time it has to do that work and more importantly the less likely it is that comrades will ever grow into self-reliant roles. While comrades will always want to consult each other and the masses in their decisions, they must distinguish between mutual hand-holding and the mass line. Before the party enters the stage of armed struggle, the party would rather have a hundred crazy communist bureaucratic dictators than a hundred hippies in consensus decision-making. The job of the Central Committee is to mediate disputes among the crazy dictators.

The Central Committee (CC) is a smaller leadership body than the party as a whole. It can perform many day-to-day tasks in accordance with the below rules and until that time at which the party at-large overturns its decisions.

Rules

1. The CC can resolve inter-ministerial and inter-bureaucratic turf disputes on a day-to-day basis. The CC will aim not to make itself a permanent dispute resolution body but to clarify lines of responsibility where there is conflict.

2. The CC can respond to opportunities or emergencies presented to the party on a day-to-day and/or ad hoc basis if those opportunities or emergencies do not fall under the purview of any existing ministry.

3. The CC can delegate authorities to new ministers and bureaucrats for areas of work not undertaken by the party before. This will occur in line with the CC's overall vision of party expansion. Until that time, CC is the bureaucrat in charge of and responsible for ministries not filled.

4. The CC is not a micro-management oversight committee. It leaves day-to-day decisions to the ministers and bureaucrats unless there is a conflict amongst bureaucrats about who is in charge of what. This includes bureaucratic posts not filled, all of which are the responsibility of the CC. For example, if there is no security minister then the CC will have ad hoc authority to intervene in security matters in all ministries unless it delegates security duties otherwise. Where there is no comrade filling the posts in question, the CC will defer to the wishes of the minister closest to the matter concerned except in issues of security.

5. Starting effective with the passage of this resolution, CC will assume that people in their assigned posts are enthusiastic about their posts and will take care to match the enthusiasm of comrades with their posts. The CC and the party as a whole will not assign jobs against the wishes of the comrade so assigned where ideological persuasion has failed to generate enthusiasm.

a. Comrades within the ministries will have the responsibility of resigning if they believe that the party would be so better served.
b. Comrades who claim to have no enthusiasm for any post they can imagine will undergo ideological re-education and ad hoc practice in contact with the genuinely oppressed masses until that time they are prepared for bureaucratic responsibility or leave the party.

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