Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 03:30:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: M-G: UNITE! Info #37en: 1/6 To Jay M. on RIM & "LeninList"


UNITE! Info #37en: 1/6 To Jay M. on RIM & "LeninList"
[Posted: 29.06.97]

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1.  WHAT'S THE SITUATION IN THE MARXIST-LENINIST
    MOVEMENT TODAY?

Hello Jay (Miles, of the Detroit Peru Support Committee),

Thank you for your mail on 11.06 with the article you reproduced
from issue No. 22 of the magazine of that phony "International"
the "RIM", "A World to Win" (AWtW), inviting my comments.

I'm replying to you publicly in this fashion, making this
another issue of my "UNITE! (etc) Info" series and posting it
both to the Spoon Collective's Marxism-General mailing list
(M-G) to which both of us are subscribing and also to some news-
groups. I hope you'll not mind my referring here to a couple of
things you wrote in that private mail of yours introducing the
article.

In this posting, in addition to commenting on that actually
quite instructive article I shall offer you and others my
opinion on some other matters which I think likewise are of
general interest and which really are more burning questions
today than those of any article that those long-since-exposed
"RIM" swindlers may write.

The general theme is the question of the discussions and the
conflicts within what might be called the international Marxist-
Leninist movement, the question of whether to uphold or to
oppose the correct political line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong
and of whether to attack or to protect the imperialists' massive
subversive activities against the proletarian revolutionary
movement in the world today.

"The dogs really are howling", you wrote, concerning that AWtW
article. Yes indeed, so they are. But the bigger problem here is
really, that you and some others actually are continuing to pro-
tect them, as I've pointed out several times privately to you
before. I do appreciate, as I've also written, the positive
stand that you've taken up on a certain issue which they and all
the similar dogs of reaction are very anxious to have everybody
be silent on.


2. THE "RIM" SWINDLERS' FALSE PICTURE

Now what does the Marxist-Leninist movement today look like, as
far as you and I know? You'd prefer calling it "the Maoist
movement", I believe, but the name question here isn't that
important. What's quite clear is that nobody today can justly
call themselves Marxists or Leninists without adhering to Mao
Zedong Thought, or "Maoism", as is the term used by some IMO
doubtful forces for the same thing.

Concerning this, let's first take a look at how the "RIM" people
are describing it, for instance in that article you mailed me.
(I already had it, on pp. 52+ in my copy of AWtW No. 22, "Decem-
ber 1996", actually out in April 1997, but had so far failed to
read it. Your pointing out certain things it contains was quite
helpful.) The title of the article is "Anti-RIM Critics from the
Cyberswamp - 'Virtual Maoism' and Real Opportunism" and its
author said to be one "R. Voina", which is probably a pseudoym;
"voina" is Russian for "war".

Despite that name, the "RIM" of course is not the one among the
phony "Internationals" today that in reality is stage-managed
mainly by forces of Russian new tsarism (the remnants of Soviet
social-imperialism) - that's the so-called "International Confe-
rence". The "RIM" is the biggest and most important of the
(mainly) CIA-manipulated ones, and a quite successful Operation
Subversion against the international Marxist-Leninist movement
it was for a long time too. The US imperialists in 1984 managed
to fool the PCP in Peru into signing their "Declaration of the
RIM" of that same year, which since then has been shitting and
pissing on Mao Zedong's correct line and on the international
proletariat, in eventually more than 20 languages, politically
unopposed too for ten whole years until finally, in 1994, "some-
one" - I'll come to that - publicly pointed out its vilely reac-
tionary nature.

After the "RIM" in late 1993 had started openly stabbing the
people's war in Peru in the back, suppressing, for instance,
during more than one year what the CC of the PCP was saying
against the "peace letters" hoax, some adherents and supporters
abroad of the PCP, including your group, Jay, the Detcom, with
much hesitation even then, got on to the fact that its leaders
were swindlers.

You attacked those leaders, the "CoRIM", but only the "CoRIM";
you and those others I'm referring to still, to this day, have
not said one word (as far as I know) against the political basis
of those swindlers, their "RIM Declaration". And therefore, that
Avakianist big "aircraft carrier of subversion", the "RIMitz",
still has not been sunk completely.

It still tries to fool some people into believing that it's a
real (preparatory) International, and also puts up a smokescreen
concerning who is really consistently attacking it and who is
not, saying, for instance, in the AWtW article we're discussing:

	"As we go to press, the hard core of this anti-RIM cabal
	includes Luis Arce Borja, a Peruvian exile who edits El
	Diario Internacional, published in Belgium; Adolfo Olae-
	chea, a close ally of Arce, who distributes his publica-
	tions on the Internet and usually signs himself as the
	Committee Sol Peru, London; New Flag, an occasional ma-
	gazine also edited by a Peruvian exile, which comes out
	in New York City; and a small group in the US called the
	Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), which, despite
	its name, has nothing to do with RIM. There are a few
	other groups and individuals scattered around Western
	Europe and North America who are more loosely associated
	with this hard core."

No, that's not the correct picture at all concerning the situa-
tion in the Marxist-Leninist movement today. That's how these
swindlers would like to have people believe it looks like.

And this, what these CIA muppets want people to think about the
situation, is also an interesting thing in itself of course.

They later, in a certain footnote to that long article which you
mentioned, Jay - and thanks for doing that! - indirectly con-
firm something which they're very anxious to hide. They're
doing this precisely by demonstrating their very anxiousness to
hide it. (Political swindling is a difficult business!)


3. IN ORDER TO BUILD UP THE GENUINE, ONE MUST SEE
   THROUGH, EXPOSE AND AS FAR AS POSSIBLE DESTROY
   THE FALSE, AND ALWAYS BE OPEN AND ABOVEBOARD
   - THAT'S WHY THE "WMC" IS A PHONY TOO

"The hard core of the anti-RIM cabal", that of course is those
impostors' designation for what would actually be the consistent
Marxist-Leninist forces in the world - or those of them who had
a certain level of international contacts at least. For any such
forces would of necessity attack and seek to destroy completely
all such entities which are *not* genuine attempts at building
an International and which cannot be "taken over" either from
the reactionaries who're actually stage-managing them as hurdles
and as instruments for leading people astray. A thorough inter-
national exposure of all such entities of course is a prerequi-
site for the construction of any International-type organization
that the proletariat and its allies could really basically trust.

This is also why the so-called World Mobilisation Commission
(WMC), the original call for which (in March 1996) was supported
both by your Detcom, Jay, and by me, among many others (some in-
dividuals as well as a number of organizations) and which was
not only directly to defend the revolution in Peru but to advo-
cate internationally the political line of Marx, Lenin and Mao
Zedong too, did *not* in fact become such a genuine, trustworthy
thing.

This was because the initiators of that call themselves, the
"PCP ambassadors" Adolfo Olaechea and Luis Arce Borja, together
only with who knows what other people, in August 1996 flagrantly
went ahead and smacked together a so-called "WMC" all by them-
selves without in the least consulting all us others who had
likewise endorsed it, and sent out a deceitful "communique"
concerning that construction.

This was done in such a manner as precisely to *prevent* the
absolutely neccessary criticism of the "RIM" and other frauds. I
immediately publicly protested of course, and I've later written
about this whole thing in some detail, in my "UNITE! Info #31en"
of 29.03.1997.

That which you also wrote in your recent mail to me, that the
"WMC", *in that form in which it was actually constructed*,
"combats revisionism and opportunism", is *not* correct, Jay,
and I must tell you that I think you ought to know it. It turned
into another vehicle of these things, just another "RIM" and not
really any "better". Those who're leading it have *not* broken
with the basic ideology of the "RIM". Some recent events,
namely, those in connection with the organising of the so-called
LeninList as a - purported - "new forum" for Marxist discussion,
further have confirmed this, haven't they. More on this later in
this posting.

Did your group, the Detcom, have a representative in Brussels in
August 1996 participating in the "WMC founding"?. I'm rather
certain it hadn't. But the "WMC communique No. 1" implicitly
said it had, by the manner in which it was purportedly signed.
That's cheating, Jay, decieving the masses, and since you've
said nothing against it, you're responsible for it too.

The IEC group in Malm=F6, of which I'm a member, didn't have any
representative there either and hadn't even endorsed the call
for the WMC; it was dormant since years back because of the
"TP" clique's sabotage, yet it purportedly likewise "signed"
the communique, in a manoeuvre that made my name as an indivi-
dual co-endorser of the original call disappear. These things
are not "unimportant formal errors" but precisely "RIM"-type
organisational methods, precisely covering up the "WMC":s
actual defence of the reactionary political line of the "RIM".


4. WHO IS REALLY THE "HARD CORE" OF THE OPPOSITION
   TO THE "RIM"?

About that AWtW article I quoted above you wrote to me:

"Rolf, I was looking at the Avakian CSRP web-page the other
day and found this interesting article, mentioning Olaechea,
Arce, Godena, New Flag, EDI, Sol Peru London, the WMC, and even
you and our Peru Support Committee/Detroit are mentioned, in
the footnotes anyway. They don't spell out your whole name, you
are just "RM" for some reason."

Your Detcom obviously is mentioned, Jay, (in footnote 19) since
it probably was no use for the "RIM" to try to conceal the fact
of your posting on 19.03.1996, "Avakianism is Yankee Revisio-
nism", which was a valuable contribution, attacking the "RCP"
from within the USA itself and, btw, coining that apt term,
"Avakianism" (after that party's chairman and leading
ideologue), for the political line both of the "RCP" and also
of the "RIM", which was always dominated by that US party. 

As for me - yes, in that article, I "for some reason" am just
"RM". What might that reason be? And not only this; the footnote
(15) mentioning that "RM" is garbled and conceals things in
another way too. It reads in full, referring to a couple of
lines (incorrectly) "quoted" from an article of mine:

"Internet posting[!], 12 August 1994, 'Why Does the RIM Help US
Imperialism Encirlce the PCP?', by RM."

The "RIM" swindlers finally have felt themselves compelled to
refer to that article which exposed the "RIM" so utterly, as a
reactionary fraud from beginning to end, and which in fact -
please allow me to say that myself, since this is how I judge
it and there are several facts that support this - not inconsi-
derably changed the entire international (Marxist) political
landscape.

Only, in August 1994, I of course didn't yet have Net access but
could only disseminate the article internationally in a very
limited way. It wasn't until 01.01.1996 that I could finally
send that smasher out all over the place via the Internet, as
"UNITE! Info #3en: '94 art. on Mao, RIM, US, PCP".

When "even" somehow referring to me, why did the "RIM" people
feel compelled to garble things in that way, so that those per-
haps trying to find me on the Net, above all, should not get any
lead on how to do this?

Because *I*'m that "hard core" of opposition to the "RIM" which
those people are talking about in that article.

They're saying of course, and want people to believe, that "the
main opposition" to them comes from quite other directions. But
by that garbling of theirs, which would otherwise have been
quite unnecessary, they themselves are confirming at least that
they fear what precisely I have had to say. In that way, this
article really is quite instructive.

Is their fear justifed, then? You and others can see for your-
selves:

Who has been pointing out, over and over again, and has been
informing people of the facts that show it, that vital truth
that the "RIM" from its very beginning, in 1984, on has been
*nothing but a fraud*, an "Operation Subversion" launched by
arch-reaction against the international Marxist-Leninist move-
ment, a big "aircraft carrier of subversion" in fact on which a
whole number of phony"Marxist" organizations have been based
and still are based, utilizing the horrendous error by the PCP
in Peru of supporting that entity and its vile anti-Mao-Zedong
"Declaration" in their acts of stabbing the international pro-
letariat in the back? Who is it that has lade bare and ex-
plained these facts?

You at least know quite well, I think, Jay, that this has been
done by me and - so far, I'm sorry to say - only by me. And
although I'm only one individual, with no organized forces be-
hind me in this respect and naturally also having those limita-
tions which are typical and inevitable for those who, during a
certain period, are forced to act on their own, it hasn't
been unimportant that there has been at least someone around
to disseminate internationally such information.

To others who're reading this, I shall mention here some earlier
issues of my "UNITE (etc) Info" series, including some quite
long and detailed postings, which by themselves largely show
the role that I so far have been able to play in the internatio-
nal Marxist-Leninist movement. Several of them have been dedica-
ted directly to refuting the swindles of the "RIM", the swindles
of the Avakianists, and others have contributed towards doing so
by informing people of what Mao Zedong's correct line was and is
really about.

I've also participated in various debates on newsgroups and,
since April 1996, not least on those Spoon Collective mailing
lists for Marxist discussions ("M1", later replaced by "M-G")
which you, Jay, informed me about in the first place and which
have indeed constituted an important international meeting-
place, and the archives of those lists show what standpoint
I've represented and what role I've played in various ideologi-
cal and political struggles - which have all involved, directly,
only a rather small number of people of course but which have
had their importance anyway because of that (potentially at
least) all-embracing character of the Net which we all know.

Here are the "UNITE! Info" postings I'd like to mention con-
cerning who has been "hard-core" in combating the "RIM" fraud:

#1en:    A Basic Statement of Oct 1978   	23.12.1995
#3en:    '94 art. on Mao, RIM, US, PCP	 	01.01.1996
#8en:    The sinking of the "RIMitz"	 	25.04.1996
#11en:   China on three worlds, 1974 	  	27.05.1996
#12en:   China - NE (Germany), '75-'77	  	08.07.1996
#13en:   CPC 10th Congress 1973, I.	  	10.07.1996
#15en:   Debate needed, M-L gen. line	  	22.07.1996
#18en:   China on world situation, 1976	  	05.10.1996=09
#20en:   Lenin on social-imperialism, 1916 	19.10.1996
#21en:   Debate with Olaechea, '96 VII		27.10.1996
#22en:   The 4-Gang in China, 1976              03.11.1996
#26en:   China, early '76, on nukes etc		18.01.1997
#27en:   Who fights "green" fascism?            02.02.1997
#30en:   Albania - briefly on present, past     25.03.1997
#31en:   What c. Adolfo's riddles hide          29.03.1997
#36en:   Remember Tianamen '89 and '76          04.06.1997

[Continued in part 2/6]





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