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

Study the practice and theory of Maoism, promote revolution!

December 26th marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong, the principal influence in MIM's own philosophy. We believe it is incorrect to worship individuals in cults of persynality, but it is superior to worship individuals instead of deities. Individuals of the real world might actually accomplish something to relieve oppression as Mao did for more people than any other leader this century.

Jesus Christ solved no starvation problems this century. Mao Zedong led the protracted People's War to kick the Japanese invaders out of China, never once capitulating or believing the many who said China was too weak and hopeless. He saw to the feeding of his people for the first time in modern history; doubled the life expectancy of the people partly by leapfrogging over crusty Western ideas of medicine that would have required China to wait till it had trained enough Western style-doctors and he led the eradication of China's severe drug addiction and drug trade problem -- among many other things that Mao led China into resolving.

When Stalin died and the Soviet Union turned to capitalism it was only Mao amongst the leaders of the international communist movement who correctly saw the problem of the bourgeoisie in the party. Hoxha in Albania, Kim in Korea, Brezhnev in the Soviet Union, Castro in Cuba -- all of these leaders attacked Mao for what is obvious today -- that it was the bourgeoisie in the party and not the imperialists who restored capitalism in the Soviet bloc. As a result of failing to grasp or act on Mao's scientific analysis, the bourgeoisie in the party came to power in the Soviet bloc including Cuba and Korea.

The phony communists said Mao was "ultraleft" for merely pointing out the unpleasant but scientific truth of a bourgeoisie in the communist party itself. Understanding the nature of the economic bases for party leaders to use their access to the means of production to form a bourgeoisie, Mao also created an appropriate form of struggle -- the Cultural Revolution.

All those claiming to be for socialism have the obligation to address the experience of the Chinese Revolution led by Mao. It is not that Maoism is another religion. Rather its success can be measured not just by what Mao accomplished in his lifetime, but also by the capitalism that has arrived in China now that Mao's scientific conclusions have been discarded by the so-called Communist Party of China.

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