From: mao_docs-AT-blythe.org
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:43:31 +0000
Subject: Re: M-I: No personal attacks on absent list members


         
> A supporter of Commander "Quispe" writes:

We are supporters of the People's War in Peru, not of any particular 
individual; why do you make empty statements?

> 
> >In point of fact, Adolfo Olaechea & Luis Arce Borja have worked hard 
> >to split the Peru solidarity movement in Europe and undermine the 
> >organizational efforts of the PCP's supporters in Europe and to pit 
> >supporters of the People's War against the Revolutionary 
> >Internationalist Movement...
> 
> This is really not the time to launch personal attacks against list members
> who have been temporarily enjoined from responding.    I am moved to write

In fact, we made a post condemning the expulsion of Miles & 
Olaechea (we did not realize it was only a temporary suspension) 
because people who support the People's War, no matter how 
imperfectly, tend to get marginalized and attacked in these Internet 
discussions.

> this not only out of a personal knowledge that the above quote is
> demonstrabIy false,  but out of an elementary sense of fair play,  as well.
> 

In what way is anything we said false? We were responding to a good 
post that correctly pointed out that Adolfo Olaechea does not speak 
for the PCP, only himself.  It is a fact that the MPP in Europe has 
strongly criticized Louis Arce Borja, both in the interview we 
mentioned (available in English if anyone wants it) and in their May 
1st 1996 statement (ditto).  The proposed World Mobilization 
Commission (which never materialized) was clearly an effort to 
confuse and split supporters of the People's War.  These are not 
personal attacks but statements of political reality.  We suggest you 
take Mao's dictum to heart "no investigation no right to speak".


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