From: mao_docs-AT-blythe.org
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 08:59:02 +0000
Subject: Re: M-G: One Step Back, Two Steps Forward!


> From:          detcom-AT-sprynet.com
> Date:          Fri, 6 Dec 1996 20:04:11 -0800
> >Another not unimportant piece of news internationally was the
> >complete exposure of the Avakian-"Quispe" black gang, in

> You are correct, Rolf, that the exposure of these opportunists
> was quite important.  I was sort of surprized that they are

We have looked at the so-called "evidence" that the MPP is some sort 
of police plot put forward by MIM, KK Cambpell, etc., and consider 
them to be little more than smoke from a flame war.  If you're going 
to call someone an agent, come up with some hard evidence.  

> but then again, I should have expected it.  Quispe's line has not
> changed in any politically significant way during his too-brief
> pause in posting.  He shows that he is ever more obviously in 
> the avakianists camp in his recent "contributions" both to the
> Marxism lists and to the Peru and Tumi lists.  I had mistakenly

Any objective look at the New Flag show that they have been 
consistent in criticising RCP & CoRIM.  Furthermore, the latest 
critique posted by them of the Margie Clavo article in the RW makes 
any allegation of "avakianism" bizarre.

> A look at the New Flag web page (it is NOT the PCP web page) will
> show that it is still the same old Quispe.  There are a bunch of 
> polemics against MIM, the WMC and El Diario International, the 
> group in New Jersey, In Struggle, etc, but not a polemic can be
> found criticizing  Avakian or his accomplices, or the individuals
> in Malmoe who are the main promoters of the "peace accords".  He has

Well, there are the various New Flag pieces which have exposed the
CoRIM & RCP line, so that's a lie.  Furthoremore, it is an outrageous
lie that "individuals in Malmoe are the main promotors of "peace
accords". The MPPs in Europe, esp. in Sweden, have struggled fiercely
agains the traitor Esparza and his clique.  Incidentally, Mr. Martens posted 
on the internet (we believe it was Feb. or March of this year) a critique of 
Louis Arce Borja for calling Javier Esparza an agent.  Martens said 
that he'd spoken with Esparza and thought him to be "honest but 
confused".   A look at the Marxism list archive can confirm this.
Comrades in Sweden tell us that Mr. Marten's much proclaimed 
role in the IEC was because Esparza appointed him, over the protest 
of the honest MPP comrades who later helped expose the revisionists.

> the kettle black!  MIM may be wrong about 90% of stuff, but one thing
> they have gotten correctly, and that is: Quispe and the MPP-USA grouping
> are as wrong as wrong can possibly be.  

If MIM is 90% wrong, how can they be a credible source of much of 
anything?  We have looked carefully at MIMs"evidence", as well as 
MIM's track record concerning the People's War, and it's pretty 
ludicrous.

> He also wrote recently a post sympathetic to General Robles in
> Peru, a person responsible for untold crimes against the people.
> Quispe wrote a glowing account of this General Robles, who was
> arrested for "exposing" government death squad actions.  Quispe
> is going to uphold murderous Peruvian Generals, while attacking
> the people world-wide who are trying to support the oppressed
> and the revolution in Peru.  General Robles has had no change
> of heart, he does not support the Revolution now, he only spilt
> the beans on account of he was passed over for a promotion, he
> did not get enough of the spoils from murder.  This is too much!
> How can  anyone supporting Quispe still can pass by him
> and not smell a filthy repugnant rat?

 The news tonight (Univision) reported that Robles was to be
murdered by the death squad after their botched kidnapping attempt.
The murder was to blamed on the PCP.  Robles has played a good role in
exposing the Fujimori-Montesinos-Hermoza clique.  In general,
revolutionaries are foolish to not exploit contradictions among the
reactionaries.   Mao Tse-tung, for example, wisely exploited the
contradictions among the KMT when a patriotic KMT general arrested
Chiang kai-Chek.  Rather than execute Chiang, the CPC forced him to
accept the anti-imperialist United Front.  So was Mao a reactionary
for making an alliance with the reactionary who killed thousands of
Communists, including Mao's wife?  Had he not, there would have been
no revolution.

Furthermore, if you study the PCP's Third Plenum led by Chairman 
Gonzalo, it is clear that the PCP was seeing the gradual 
transformation of the principal contradiction in Peru from 
semi-feudalism vs. bureaucratic capitalism to oppressed nation vs. US 
imperialism.  Clearly as this trend increases, the contradictions 
among the oppressors becomes more important.  Reporting on this 
serves the revolution.

> ROLF:
> >A typical exaggeration, to single out that people's war as having
> >such a great importance internationally as is described here.

Only such a phony "Maoist" as the great Rolf Martens would take such 
a pessimistic view of the People's War in Nepal.  In 1980, many 
people laughed at the Maoists in Peru.  They're not laughing now.  To 
speak disparagingly of a people's war says more about the class 
position of such a person than all the regurgiation of Selected Works 
or Peking Review does.

> >What "Quispe" is after is to support and, if possible, make
> >permanent those errors on international questions which the PCP
> >is still also making and which are also harming the international
> >proletariat: Above all its continued support for the phoney
> >"International" the "RIM".

The PCP seeks to unite all who can be united within and without the 
RIM on the questions of Maoism and the strategic offensive of the 
world revolution.  Opportunists, on the other hand, seek to divide 
all who can be divided, by the use of unprincipled attacks.

> been misrepresenting the political line of the PCP.  One of the
> first disagreements we had with the MPP-USA's line was their
> twisting of Mao's statement: "Revolution is the main trend in 
> the world today".  Quispe had twisted this to mean that the 
> world was on the verge of proletarian revolution, right now,
> in a very short time.  Any disagreement with their line was
> always met with the same resistance, they would insinuate that you
> cannot understand, you are not Peruvian.  Supposedly, being a
> person from imperialist country excludes you from understanding
> the correct line, the Peruvian reality.  I tried my best to understand
> the New Flag line, until I realized it didn't make any sense because
> it was not a correct representation of reality.
> 

This is truly bizarre.  Chairman Gonzalo and the PCP have developed 
Mao's thesis, both in understanding that we are entering a new great 
wave of proletarian revolution, but that is happening with the 
ebbing of the general counter-revolutionary offensive and the triple 
revisionist assault of the 70s & 80s of Deng, Hoxha and Bhrezhnev & 
Gorbachov.   No one is saying the world is on the verge of revolution 
right now, rather that the revolutionary offensive is begining.  The 
People's War in Nepal, along with the noticible upsurges of struggle 
in Mexico, Colombia, Turkey, India, and even the workers in Europe 
and Canada are proof of what the PCP has been saying for some years.

> I could not know any of it.  Note:  anyone reading this should
> be aware that this not the real political line of the PCP, it is
> the line of a small gang of pretenders-to-be PCP in New York, and the PCP
> should not be criticized for the actions of this gang.  The MPP-USA

The bizarre metaphysics you describe seem to reside more in your 
mind, because they are not reflected in any articles in the New Flag, 
nor in the practice we have seen of Peruvian comrades in this 
country.  Given your general ignorance of both the line of the PCP 
and the practice of the MPP, you should take to heart what Mao said 
about "no investigation, no right to speak".

> advantage of "being Peruvian" to try and make merchandise of the
> People's War in Peru.  This is one reason they make more of the

This does not coincide with what we have seen, people who do not sell 
merchandise the way most leftist groups do.  If you have some 
evidence of merchandising, please produce it.

> 
> "At the moment, we have  no evidence to prove them as infiltrated 
> agents within the movement of solidarity.  However, it is plainly 
> evident - and their actions show this beyond doubt - that they are
> the dumb tools of the Fujimori regime." (EDI #35)
> 

The irony is that this quote fits quite well with the current actions 
of Luis Arce Borja, a man so isolated from the solidarity movement 
that he has to rely on the Belgium Party of Labor, good friends of 
Deng Xiaoping, for his publishing efforts. 


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