{"id":1208,"date":"2008-06-11T01:10:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T15:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2008-06-13T03:46:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:46:41","slug":"long-live-marxist-leninist-stalinist-maoist-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"Long Live Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist Media!"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIM is dead! Long live MIM!<\/em><\/p>\n

Revolutionary Internationalist Information Network<\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RIIN is Marxist media upholding world proletarian revolutions, anti-imperialism and feminism. Regarding proletarian revolutions and anti-imperialism, we uphold cardinal principles of Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) that is based at California, USA. Regarding feminism, we follow writings of authors Chalam [1894 \u2013 1979] and Ranganayakamma<\/a> [1939–]. You can contact us at our email address hegel2mao [at] rediffmail [dot] com<\/p>\n

We consider USSR under Josef Stalin (from 1922 to 1953) and China under Mao Zedong (from 1949 to 1976) as real models of socialism. We reject the legacy of the CPSU since 1953 and of the CCP since 1976. We consider Khrushchevite-Brezhnevite social-imperialism to be one of the ugliest totalitarian social systems in world\u2019s history and we see its direct and logical continuation in the post-Soviet Russia of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the face of an uncaring world, MIM announced its suicide last month, the last gasp of a tiny group of revolutionary academics from California. Other Maoist (Marxist-Leninist) groups still-existant in the United States — and in addition to the Great Leader<\/a>‘s — include the (rival) Freedom Road Socialist Organization<\/a> and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization<\/a>, the Party for Socialism and Liberation<\/a> and Workers World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the United Kingdom, Maoist and Marxist-Leninist political formations include the Communist Party of Britain<\/a>, the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist<\/a>, the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)<\/a>, the New Communist Party of Britain<\/a>, the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)<\/a> and last — but by absolutely no means necessary least<\/em> — the Stalin Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On a vaguely related note, Peter Tatchell represents<\/a> for Mount Waverley:<\/p>\n

In 1968 I was a 16 year old student at Mount Waverley High School<\/a>, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [School motto: “Learn to live and live to learn”]. My home state was, in those days, Victoria by name and Victorian by nature. The federal government was also ruled by a suffocating, authoritarian right-wing government. Abortion and homosexuality were totally illegal. Plays, books and films were subject to ruthless censorship. Protests were heavily repressed and it was a crime in the city of Melbourne to hand out political leaflets in the street. Anyone with even vaguely liberal views was denounced as a communist, which carried serious social stigma and potential career derailment in sensitive professions. The Victorian state premier, Henry Bolte, was Franco lite…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, I’ve looked but can find no Australian Maoist blogs. Or, to be precise, none that dare speak their name and\/or actually function<\/a>. Perhaps the closest thing to a Maoist blog is (was?) LastSuperpower.net — “established by leftwingers who support the war in Iraq” — which unfortunately appears to be down at the moment.<\/p>\n

Does Bill Kerr’s blog<\/a> qualify?<\/p>\n

LastSuperpower.net (December 2002–) appears to have had its brief maoment in the sun a few years ago, when members offered themselves to General Public as the voice of the pro-war Left. The remnants of the Miaowist student movement of the 1960s, the mob at LastSuperpower encapsulated their demands of World History in the delightfully euphemistic phrase ‘draining the swamps’<\/a>. As embodied, for example, in Kerry Langer’s ‘Drain the swamps where terror breeds’<\/a>, published in The Australian<\/em> (September 25, 2005). ‘Ironic’ that in their youth, qualified to serve their part as cogs in their country’s death machine, the Miaowists were anti-war; 30-something years later, and a little bit long in the tooth for active duty, they snipe at the ‘pseudo-Left’ from internet bunkers.<\/p>\n

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