Again on the “RIM” Renegades in Nepal
December 21, 2006
| “What is fake is fake. Strip off the disguise!” –Mao Zedong, Instruction, 1967 |
| “We must be good at distinguishing fake supporters of the revolution who are actually reactionaries and douse them away from all our battle fronts, so that we may preserve the victories which are already won and will be won.” –Mao Zedong, Instruction, 1967 |
Recent developments in Nepal demand some response from the international communist movement. What we are witnessing is the selling out of a People’s War under the banner of “Maoism.” Yet, very few have come forward to speak the truth. At this time, genuine Maoists must step forward to call out the betrayal of People’s War concocted in the so-called “Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.” Real Maoists should not hesitate to come forward and denounce the great betrayal in Nepal and also demand that the imperialist organization known as the “RIM,” connected to this betrayal, be disbanded. IRTR’s earlier condemnations of the Prachanda clique and the “RIM” can be found here:
| Two-Line Struggle, 11 Oct 2006: https://irtr.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2200Disband the RIM, 16 Oct 2006: https://irtr.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2233Does a Maoist People’s Army Disarm?, 8 Nov 2006: https://irtr.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2405Kautskyism, 9 Nov 2006: https://irtr.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2409QuacKKK, Video Against RIM, 11 Nov 2006: https://irtr.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2420Full Text of SPA Agreement Criticized, 13 Nov 2006: https://irtr.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2434Prachanda’s Pernicious Path, graphic, 15 Nov 2006: https://irtr.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2442 Prachanda and Santa Ana, 20 Nov 2006: Leaders and Sell-Outs, 25 Nov 2006: Fraternal Recognition, Who Counts as Communist? 26 Nov 2006: Nepal: Revisionist Treachery, Part 1, video, 26 Nov 2006: Lin Biao on Prachanda, 30 Nov 2006: Prachanda’s Pernicious Path 2, graphic, 19 Dec 2006: Armed Reformism, 20 Dec 2006: |
Rather than going through the details of the various statements by the “RIM” renegades, this document briefly sums up the broad points made in previous discussions as of 20 December 2006. IRTR has other documents exposing in detail the Trotskyist aspect of the “Revolutionary Communist Party” (RCP,USA) and their Fourth International known as the “RIM.” These other documents can be found at irtr.org/forums in the Theory and Marxist Economics forums.
1. Renegade “CP Nepal (Maoist)” rejects New Democracy in practice
For 10 years, the “CP Nepal (Maoist)” has participated in a protracted People’s War and struggled to establish New Democracy. New Democracy is the stage of revolution where the popular classes, led by the proletariat, smash semi-feudalism, comprador capitalism, and imperialism, and carry out the historic tasks assigned to the bourgeoisie in Europe. For 10 years, the masses have struggled for land reform, for a new people’s legal system, new people’s institutions to administer their communities, public education, and so on. For 10 years, the masses have struggled against the caste system and reactionary attitudes toward wimmin and national minorities. For 10 years, the masses have struggled against the semi-feudal and comprador fetters on development. All of these gains are now threatened by those same leaders who once claimed to have championed New Democracy.
The renegades in the “CP Nepal (Maoist)” do not really support New Democracy despite their claims to the contrary. The renegades signed onto “returning the houses, land and properties confiscated in the past” and agreed that the “people’s government, people’s court run by the CPN (Maoist) would be dissolved.” They have signed onto dismantling the people’s institutions of the oppressed, the dual power in the countryside, and even the People’s Army. These renegades have even signed onto reversing land reform. There can be no New Democracy without this new power challenging the old institutions of semi-feudalism.
Since the New Democratic reforms are being reversed and there is no way to secure the New Democratic gains without people’s institutions and a People’s Army, there is no meaningful sense in which the renegades in the “CP Nepal (Maoist)” can be said to be fighting semi-feudalism as a mode of production. It may be true that they are in favor of removing the monarchy, certain feudal political institutions, and the symbols of feudalism; however, they appear to be willing to leave the semi-feudal mode of production in place. This cannot be mistaken for Maoism.
2. Renegade “CP Nepal (Maoist)” rejects the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
“CP Nepal (Maoist)” has openly stated that it is not fighting for socialism. They reject the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in favor of a “21st century democracy.” They go so far as to label past existing socialism as “20th century totalitarianism.” There is nothing new in their approach. They follow in the footsteps of Kautsky’s parliamentarianism and Liu Shaoqi’s class-collaborationist line.
The proletariat does not take hold of the existing state through parliamentary or other means. The existing state is one that is wielded by the reactionary classes against the masses. The state can be wielded by the reactionaries or the proletariat, but not both. There is no war of position to be waged in the reactionary state bureaucracy between reactionary and proletarian interests. A proletarian party does not enter into a power-sharing agreement within the reactionary and repressive state. The state does not stand above class struggle. The interests of the imperialists and their lackeys and the proletariat are diametrically opposed. The proletariat smashes the reactionary state and builds a people’s state led by the proletariat. These renegades reject the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and its consolidation through Proletarian Cultural Revolution. They reject basic Marxism, and they act to propagate non-Marxism in its place throughout the world.
3. Renegade “CP Nepal (Maoist)” rejects People’s War
Like Liu Shaoqi’s collaborationist line, the vile Prachanda clique seeks an end to the People’s War. The 1969 Ninth Congress Report of the Chinese Communist Party states:
| After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, when the U.S. imperialists were arming Chiang Kai-shek’s counter-revolutionary troops in preparation for launching an all-out offensive against the liberated areas, Liu Shao-chi, catering to the needs of the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries, dished up the capitulationist line, alleging that China has entered the “new stage of peace and democracy”. It was designed to oppose Chairman Mao’s general line of “go all out to mobilize the masses, expand the people’s forces and, under the leadership of our Party, defeat the aggressor and build a new China”, and to oppose Chairman Mao’s policy of “give tit for tat and fight for every inch of land”, which was adopted to counter the offensive of the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries. Liu Shao-chi preached that “at present the main form of the struggle of the Chinese revolution has changed from armed struggle to non-armed and mass parliamentary struggle”. He tried to abolish the Party’s leadership over the people’s armed forces and to “unify” the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, predecessors of the People’s Liberation Army, into Chiang Kai-shek’s “national army” and to demobilize large numbers of worker and peasant soldiers led by the Party in a vain attempt to eradicate the people’s armed forces, strangle the Chinese revolution and obeisantly hand over to the Kuomintang the fruits of victory which the Chinese people had won in blood.In April 1949, on the eve of the countrywide victory of China’s new-democratic revolution when the Chinese People’s Liberation Army was preparing to cross the Yangtse River, Liu Shao-chi hurried to Tientsin and threw himself into the arms of the capitalists. [Lin Biao, Ninth Party Congress Report] |
Like Liu Shaoqi, these renegades in Nepal liquidate the people’s gains and the People’s Army by throwing themselves at the feet of imperialists and their comprador agents. Mao said that without the People’s Army, the people have nothing. There is no way to defend the people’s gains from reversal without the People’s Army. Yet, like Liu Shaoqi, the vile renegade Prachanda has bargained away the People’s War and with it any hope of liberation for the masses. It is crystal-clear that the Kautsky-Liu Shaoqi-type “RIM” renegades oppose Mao’s line.
4. Crypto-Trotskyism and Liberalism as a so-called “new synthesis”
For some time, crypto-Trotskyist organizations have been attacking real Maoism on the ideological level. For some time, they have been working to set up a strawman “totalitarian” foil to the crypto-Trotskyist new synthesis, which is really just plain old Trotskyism and Kautskyism. “RIM” has been working overtime to attack Comrades Stalin, Lin Biao, and Jiang Qing, as ways to stab at the heart of Maoism. Whatever mistakes these three comrades may have made, it has to be understood that “RIM”’s purpose in attacking them is disingenuous. “RIM” seeks to destroy the Maoist movement by these attacks.
| - “RIM” takes every opportunity to attack Comrade Stalin as “metaphysical,” “baggage,” and “totalitarian.” - “RIM” takes every opportunity to attack the Maoist conception of two-line struggle as “Stalinist,” “commandist,” “mechanical,” and so on. - “RIM” eschews Maoist global class analysis as “Lin Biaoist.” - “RIM” attacks an emphasis on Maoist People’s War as “Lin Biaoist.” - “RIM” attacks Comrade Lin Biao as a militarist and too extreme. - “RIM” attacks Comrade Jiang Qing’s entire line on culture as “one-sided” and too extreme. |
The “RIM”’s attacks on Comrades Stalin, Lin, and Jiang, pave the way for various versions of “RIM”’s new synthesis. “RIM” aims at rejecting Maoism and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. “RIM”’s new synthesis attacks the methods of attaining proletarian state power; it questions the validity of Maoist People’s War and eschews it as militaristic and “Lin Biaoist.” “RIM”’s new synthesis rejects the legacy of real existing socialism in the USSR and China as “20th century totalitarianism.” “RIM”’s new synthesis rejects the continuous revolution under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat by rejecting Comrade Jiang’s and Comrade Mao’s entire line on extending the revolution into the super-structure. “RIM”’s new synthesis means the vile Prachanda’s Kautskyist Path, “21st century” “multi-party democracy” in Nepal; it means the vile Bob Afakean’s crypto-Trotskyist u$ state department collaboration. The “RIM”’s modus operandi is the same on both sides of the globe.
“RIM” often claims that they invented Maoism conceived of as a new stage of Marxism. Yet, the new stage idea was clearly articulated by Chinese Maoists during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and echoed by Indian Maoists in the 1960s. “RIM” lies about this history in order to link their fake-Maoism to “RIM”’s new synthesis. In place of Maoism, “RIM” introduces hegemonism, imperialist collaboration, liberalism, parliamentarianism, and Trotskyism. What people must understand is that for the “RIM,” Comrades Stalin, Lin, and Jiang, are mostly just stand-ins for Maoism. “RIM” raises the red flag to oppose the red flag.
5. Imperialist collaboration and “RIM”’s rejection of the principal contradiction in practice.
Since at least 1981, the vile Bob Afakean has been undermining the idea that the principal contradiction is between imperialism and oppressed nations. In the early 1980s vile RCP labeled the Maoist formulation as “Lin Biaoist” and adopted Trotskyism. In 1984, there was the wholesale adoption of Trotskyism by the “RIM” and the beginning of their outright collaboration with the CIA. Since then, the “RIM” has been working on a grand scale with imperialism to destroy movements worldwide. A short history of the “RIM” can be found here: https://irtr.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2233
In Nepal, the vile Prachanda is working closely with the other parties, the u$, India, and the World Bank, to draw up plans for Nepal’s “development” under imperialist control. Billions of dollars in blood money, imperialist “aid,” sits on the table. The vile Prachanda is not a Maoist; he is a comprador who is selling out the masses. The renegades’ collusion with imperialists is most dramatically represented by the jailing, disarming and “rehabilitation” of the People’s Army by the vile Prachanda clique and the UN. The imperialists have funded the prison camps and the vile Prachanda is the warden. The People’s Army is left with no weapons to seriously defend itself, the small numbers of weapons left with the vile Prachanda, as per the SPA agreement, seem more aimed at keeping the People’s Army imprisoned, not aimed at keeping the imperialist backed forces out. In addition, there are now reports of widespread hunger, disease and exposure in the prison camps.
The vile Prachanda clique has supported the reactionary Indian ruling class and aided the rise of Indian hegemonism and intra-oppressed nation rivalry. The vile Prachanda praised the India ruling class for its help in bringing about the peace and helping him while in exile. In addition, the vile Prachanda went out of his way to fan the flames of Hindu chauvinism with anti-Pakistan agitation. In addition, the vile Prachanda took time to support revisionist comprador traitors like the “CP India (Marxist)” and attend speaking engagements with pig extraordinaire, ex-mayor of New York, homeland security bigwig and Republikan presidential candidate Rudolf Giuliani. The vile Prachanda also took time to undermine the People’s War waged by Naxalites by recommending “RIM”’s new synthesis to the Naxalites, eschewing Maoism for Kautsky-Liu Shaoqi reformism.
The vile Prachanda’s imperialist collusion is also represented by the “RIM”’s attacks on the broad United Front against the principal enemy, u$ imperialism. The “RIM” has been making attacks against national resistance movements around the world, especially in Occupied Mexico, the Black Nation, First Nations, Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Palestine. “RIM” destroys the people’s movement in Nepal, just as it colluded with the CIA against the people’s movement in Peru. This is why Maoists are not afraid to say that “RIM” is a CIA tool.
All of this comes down to “RIM”’s rejection of the principal contradiction. “RIM” does not see the contradiction between imperialism and oppressed nations as antagonistic. “RIM” sees the contradiction as one that can be negotiated. “RIM” does not see imperialism as necessarily the enemy, “RIM” is trafficking in the same old Theory of Productive Forces common to Trotskyists, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and neo-conservatives in the u$ State Department and World Bank.
6. Afake is a fake. Strip off the disguise! Put Maoism in Command!
Real Maoists must come forward to reaffirm our cardinal principles. Real Maoists stand for People’s War. Real Maoists stand for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and its consolidation through Proletarian Cultural Revolutions. Maoists stand against the imperialist first world and its labor-aristocratic so-called “working class.” Maoists reject crypto-Trotskyist and Kautskyist schemes that play into the hands of u$ imperialists. Maoists support the broad United Front against the principal enemy, u$ imperialism. The “CP Nepal (Maoist)”’s sweeping actions and ideological pronouncements in the service of imperialism, reflected in the “RIM”’s attacks on Maoism, are opposed to Maoism and must be rejected for the sake of combatting the pernicious spread of revisionism and counterrevolution. It is time to heed Mao’s words: “What is fake is fake. Strip off the disguise!” Put Maoism in Command!
IRTR Ministers Committee
irtr.org
20 December 2006
