About Maoist Information Web Site
Maoist Information Web Site (MIWS) is a repository for text.
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MIWS is guided by the glorious communist science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. MIWS struggles for a world without oppression of any kind. Key to this is recognizing reality as it is, not just how one wants it to be or wishes it were. In addition to upholding the fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and upholding the struggles of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, MIWS as part of its appraisal of the social forces that exist today recognizes that imperialist parasitism has resulted in a situation where a majority of the First World population are class, gender and nation oppressors. The Euro-Amerikan nation in North America is a nation of exploiters, parasites, settlers, and dominators. MIWS acknowledges the existence of three different strands of oppression -- class, gender, and nation -- each of which has its own dynamics. Struggling against revisionism in the proletarian camp is an important part of building the united front against imperialism. In the latest stage of revisionism, revisionism has penetrated so-called Maoism, as it penetrated so-called Marxism-Leninism before. Defining attributes of revisionism today are dogmatism, Liberalism, Trotskyism, the revisionist theory of productive forces, and denying the the realities of parasitism, national oppression and imperialist militarism and thereby rejecting Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Revisionism out of power and the struggle against the new bourgeoisie in the communist party itself after the seizure of power both have a social, material basis.
Conditions and contradictions have developed over time, and, today, the principal contradiction, which is between imperialism and the oppressed nations, is at the same time a contradiction between mostly bourgeois/dominator nations with exploiter and oppressor majorities, and proletarian/dominated nations with comprador elites. The First World labor aristocracy is comprised of the majority of the First World bourgeois so-called working class, is part of the global ruling class, and will be defeated as an oppressor class along with the wealthier members of imperialism. Current strategy predicated on an analysis of concrete conditions and contemporary class structure calls for a united front against imperialism, People's War, eventually against the global metropoles themselves with popular support, and a joint dictatorship of the oppressed-nation proletariats over imperialism. MIWS additionally acknowledges the need for the oppressed's dictatorship to smash patriarchy, its own system of oppression, and all gender oppression. The main role of Maoism within the First World is to weaken imperialism at home and divide and manipulate the exploiters by legal and ideological means. Since the international proletariat will have to take action in a sweeping way to end imperialism and de-parasitize and re-civilize the oppressors and settlers and the majority of First World people are exploiters and oppressors, First World Maoists should envision working toward a society in which they themselves won't necessarily play any special role in power.
Maoism belongs to the masses, concentrated enormously in the Third World. MIWS highlights the need for the masses to train themselves in science, recognizing parasitism and neo-colonialism and how they operate, and methods and forms of struggle, including cultural struggle, in order to carry out revolution and prevent counterrevolution.
MIWS's immediate ideological lineage includes the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), the defunct It's Right to Rebel! Forums (IRTR), which existed between 2005 and 2007, and the work of Arghiri Emmanuel.
MIWS realizes that Maoism, even in the Internet context, isn't just about reproducing itself, spreading Maoism, but MIWS's function as a specifically Maoist Web site is to propagate and disperse Maoism widely, using methods appropriate to the Internet environment.
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[This text was last changed on 2007 July 21.]