Maoist Internationalist Movement
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Originally known as the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), MIM changed its name in 1984 to its current name after the Revolutionary Communist Party (USA) took the name "Revolutionary Internationalist Movement" for its own international organization.
Various Maoists later moved closer to a more accepting position regarding homosexuality, but MIM was unique in its early rejection of homophobia and the examples of it they found in much of the international Maoist movement.
Like all Maoists, the MIM are ardent anti-revisionists. MIM calls itself a "collection of existing or emerging Maoist internationalist parties in the English-speaking imperialist countries and their English-speaking internal semi-colonies, as well as the existing or emerging Maoist Internationalist parties in Belgium, France and Quebec and the existing or emerging Spanish-speaking Maoist Internationalist parties of Aztlan, Puerto Rico and other territories of the U.$. Empire."
It is through its unique analysis of the labor aristocracy that MIM differentiates itself from other leftist parties in what it terms the imperialist countries. The labor aristocracy today, MIM argues, is that class of workers in imperialist countries that receive more than the value of their labor by sharing in the superprofits exploitatively extracted from the Third World. MIM sees the principal contradiction in society to be that between imperialism and the oppressed nations and upholds the right to self-determination for oppressed nations. Although it allows that there are "scattered" white proletariat, MIM considers most white workers in the U.S. to be members of a labor aristocracy, meaning that that they benefit so much from the system of imperialism that they are bought off, thus having no revolutionary potential. MIM developed this analysis in part from the book Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai. MIM thus believes that revolution is impossible in the U.S. without external help of oppressed nations. This causes many other communist groups to question the point of MIM's existence, though MIM claims RADACADS originated in a "majority of national minorities and a majority of women."
MIM's newspaper, MIM Notes, is anonymously written, based at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and distributed across the United States, including on university campuses. The writers may use the moniker MCX (MIM Comrade X), where X is a number. MIM is known for its unusual spellings, such as womyn (and plural wimmin), persyn, I$rael, Kanada, and united $nakes of ameriKKKa, which reflects MIM's approach to language questions. MIM also holds the unusual position that sex under patriarchy is rape due to power relations in patriarchal society. They have drawn on the theoretical works of feminist author Catharine MacKinnon in coming to this analysis, though MIM also has criticized MacKinnon's work. MIM leads a mass organization, the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL).
On November 26, 2005, the [Seize The Time Radio Collective] launched its online revolutionary Maoist radio program. Seize The Time provides commentary, news, and music from the perspective of MIM.
External links
- [MIM's homepage]
- [MIM Notes online] (disowned by the MIM central committee April 7 2006 http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/wim/cong/cconmni2006.html , ceased publication April 27 2006)
- [MIM's unofficial forums]
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