File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-01-01.033, message 43


Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:08:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: NEUE EINHEIT to several questions//..MRTA


On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 Klasber-AT-aol.com wrote:

>  Translation from the German original.
> 
> 			        I. 
> 
> 	NEUE EINHEIT to several questions
> 
> In connection to a statement about the action of Rolf Martens
> which we published in the middle of August, 1996, whereby we also
> dealt with THE HISTORY OF OUR ORGANIZATION, several questions
> have been sent to our organization  about our position regarding
> questions of the People's Republic of China and several political
> forces there, but also about our position regarding the Communist
> Party of Peru (Shining Path of Mariategui). For several months we


Louis: No questions came from the marxism-international list so why don't
you keep your business on the marxism-general list where you and every
other pipsqueak sect can issue manifestos and "HISTORY OF OUR
ORGANIZATIONS" until the cows come home. Some organization, I'll bet. 6
philosophy students in Munich sleeping until noon every day.


> Presently an action has gained the attention of the worldwide
> public, the action of hostage-taking in the Japanese embassy in
> Lima by the MRTA. The MRTA is - to put it mildly - an utterly
> unclear revolutionary organization which  is to be seen  in a
> connection not only with Peruvian bourgeois parties like the
> APRA, but also with circles of  US capitalism which are behind.

Louis: Unclear? They seem to be a typical Castroite guerrilla group, not
unlike the Tupamaros from Uruguay, or the FARC and M-19 in Colombia from
earlier days.

> It can hardly be imagined that an action like an occupation of an
> embassy will change the least of the social situation in Peru,
> like it can be heard from the MRTA which in all seriousness
> "demands" from the present government to change its policies into
> the direction of the interests of the broad masses in Peru. As

Louis: This is only partially true. It will certainly not change the
social situation, which requires the self-organization of the
working-class and the peasantry. Nobody in the MRTA could assume that this
would be the outcome. My guess is that their goals are more achievable: to
wrest improvement in the prison conditions of political prisoners and to
throw the Fujimori regime into a political crisis. It has been successful
to some extent.

> 
> Certainly several members who have put through the occupation of
> the embassy are inspired by the wish to help their prisoners in
> the dungeons of the Peruvian state. We think, however, that not
> by coincidence this aspect during the further actions went into
> the background, and that the actual endeavours, as described by
> us, will come to the fore, because American imperialism has
> always tried, in all of the countries, to gain a foothold not
> only with the reactionaries but also to infiltrate the
> revolutionary groups and make them active according to 
> ITS OWN WISHES.
> 

Louis: So it is because "American imperialism has always tried ...to
infiltrate the revolutionary groups and make them active according to ITS
OWN WISHES". This is an accusation that the MRTA is acting as an
agent-provocateur. There are people on this list, myself included, who
identify with Castroism.

When you make baseless charges against a Castroite guerrila group, you are
looking for trouble. This type of charge is the sort of thing you should
feel free to make on the marxism-general list, not here. If you insist on
continuing to make them here, I will petition the moderators to kick your
smelly anonymous asses off of this list.



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