Celebrate International Women’s Day; Smash the First World!
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March 8th, 2008 is International Women’s Day. It is important to recognize that women’s liberation is a necessary step on the road to socialism and communism. Liberation movements that put women’s liberation on the back burner fight with one hand tied behind their back. It is in this spirit that we honor the role of women in the liberation struggle.
On Iran and the Islamic Upsurge…
We denounce First World attempts to destroy anti-imperialist movements by turning Third World females against Third World males. When First Worldists and their lackeys hold marches against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic upsurge against imperialism, they are doing the bidding of the imperialists. They pretend to criticize both Islam and imperialism. (1) In reality, all they end up doing is undermining anti-interventionist sentiment within imperialist nations. They are simply spreading anti-Islamic chauvinism and malaise within the anti-war movement. Their implication is that First World so-called feminism is the answer to problem of patriarchy in the Third World. Theirs is the same old “civilizing” rhetoric that the colonizer and their lackeys have always directed at the colonized.
To make matters worse, these forces go even further. In Iran, by declaring the Islamic Republic to be “the main enemy,” they have embarked on a strategy of encouraging imperialist war against Iran as a catalyst for catapulting themselves to power as compradors. These comprador forces have also echoed imperialist propaganda against the Iranian nuclear program. To attack the Third World is to attack the majority of the world’s females. These forces are anti-women. There should be no mistaking their true nature. Good riddance to the rotting hulk known as the RIM.
What Third World movements need to understand…
1. The contradiction between First World females and First World males is not antagonistic. First World females, for the most part, are freed from traditional forms of patriarchal oppression. Like First World males, First World females enjoy a high degree of autonomy, a wide range of life options to pursue in their leisure time, access to imperial privileges, etc. First World males and First World females largely share the same culture and psychology. Whereas there are still differences between First World males and First World females, these differences are insignificant in the global scheme of things. First World males and First World females benefit from the global system of gender oppression.
2. The First World as a whole is your enemy. First World males and First World females are your enemy. Contradictions in individual First World nations are made less and less antagonistic due to the influx of super-profits. Contradictions that once seemed antagonistic have faded away within individual First World nations.
3. At present, we should not seek to undermine counter-hegemonic, anti-imperialist, bourgeois nationalist regimes in Iran, northern Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, etc. These states are not socialist and are not on the path to communism. However, the existence of these counter-hegemonic, anti-imperialist states helps open up the possibility of proletarian breakthroughs in other parts of the world. When Maoist-Third Worldist, proletarian forces take state power, they will be isolated internationally unless such a counter-hegemonic block exists. At present, to undermine counter-hegemonic, anti-imperialist states undermines the success of proletarian revolution.
4. Build a Maoist-Third Worldist, proletarian alternative without undermining the counter-hegemonic, anti-imperialist block. The imperialists have shown that they are more than willing to support so-called revolutionary and so-called Maoist organizations in order to undermine anti-imperialist, counter-hegemonic forces and states in the Third World. Imperialists are more than willing to support comprador forces under Mao’s banner. Maoist-Third Worldists need to establish a solid, proletarian alternative globally without undermining the anti-imperialist united front.
5. Scientific clarity is needed within the International Communist Movement. The fan club approach must be smashed. The fan club approach has led to a situation where movements unite on the basis of their favorite historic icons. The fan club approach has led to a situation where organizations are so mired in dogma and so ideologically moribund that they are unable to do any real analysis of political economy or historical analysis.
6. Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? Global class analysis is key to successful communist revolution. Revolutionary science does not tolerate opportunism and fence sitting on the question of first importance.
Celebrate…
Celebrate International Women’s Day by decisively breaking with First Worldism. Embrace Maoism-Third Worldism! Denounce First World so-called feminism! Denounce White so-called feminism! Stand for proletarian feminism! Women of the Third World, stand against imperialism, especially U$ imperialism!
Notes.
1. http://rwor.org/a/122/march-8-statement-en.html
Also see: Stand-in gender line, Policy on alternative gender spellings, David Horowitz, Bob Avakian wrangle over copyright, Book Review: Female Chauvinist Pigs, Interview with Ganapathy with comments by IRTR, Sunrise Document, Iron Five video and on the United Front, Disband the RIM by IRTR, Allegory of the Playground, Shubel Morgan Video: Long Live the Victory of People’s War!, Shubel Morgan: Hate Amerikkka triple feature , Shubel Morgan video: On the Theory of Productive Forces (论唯生产力论 in Chinese) (click here for English)
I need some clarifications here if possible.You talk about a “global system of gender opression”.I had the impression that in the First World the opression against women is an ideological remnant of previous times because of the unsynchronized development of of economic base and superstructure quickly fading away.But if there is an active global system of gender opression how do the First World women benefit by it?If they benefit by it it is in their interest to maintain it right?Or do u mean that the FW women(and men) benefit by the gender opression in Third World cause it helps them destroying anti-imperialist struggles by misleading TW women and making them forget their main enemy as RCP does?I hope i made clear my question.
I agree with this. The RIM is disgraced and dead.
Revolutionary women celebrate women’s day in putting more effort on revolutionary mass work. 1st world women celebrate it by pampering themselves in spas and beauty salons.