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A A GAINST VAKIANISM A JITH PublishedbyChristopheKistler [email protected] Utrecht,2017 1stprinting(EU):50copies 1stprinting(US) ThisbookisunderlicenseAttribution-ShareAlike4.0 International(CCBY-SA4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 5 TheSpecialMeetingandtheRCPLetter 6 TheEthicsofAvakianistPolemics 11 TheArbitraryStagesofAvakianism 29 Mis-renderingMao 35 APerversionofInternationalism 43 TheNationalTaskinOppressedNations 50 The National Question in Imperialist 62 Countries InfantileCriticismofUnitedFrontTactics 73 GuttingMarxistPolitical-Economy 84 TheWorldSituation 95 SocialistDemocracy 102 Truth, Class Interests and the Scientific 125 Method ARationalistCritiqueofReligion 143 Some"Postist"TraitsofAvakianism 150 StrugglewithintheRIM 164 MoreDevious,MoreDangerous 171 3 4 INTRODUCTION In early 2012, a Special Meeting of the Parties and Organisations of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) was successfully concluded. The resolutions of the Special Meeting (SM) were released on the 1st of May. (They can be accessed at www.thenaxalbari.blogspot.com) Following this the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (henceforth RCP) circulated a letter titled, ‘Letter To Participating Parties And Organisations Of The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement’. It was dated 1-5-2012 and designated ‘Not for Publication’. Barely two months later it went online.1 This haste is well exposed by the contents of the letter. It is a vicious attack on the SM and its resolutions. But before we get into that some historymustberecounted. 5 THESPECIALMEETINGANDTHERCPLETTER The Special Meeting was the product of a persistent and determined struggle to resist and beat back conscious efforts to liquidate the RIM. This struggle wasinitiatedin2009byindividualpartiesinthemidst of the intensification of the global crisis and people’s struggles.2 Their efforts led to the issuance of Joint May Day statements from 2009 onwards, thus once again taking the collective views of the Maoists to the peoples of the world. The issue of reorganising and reviving the RIM as part of building towards an International of a new type was brought back on the agenda. Important seminars, joint meetings and activities were conducted as part of this process, deepening and widening it.3 This also involved inputs fromMaoistpartieswhichwerenotpartoftheRIM. In this course the necessity of a meeting which would carry out a preliminary summation of the RIM and formally initiate a proposal for an International Conference was recognised. An invitation for the meeting was issued in the name of four parties, the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan [C(m)PA], Maoist Communist Party of Italy [mCPI], Proletarian Party of Purba Bangla [Bangladesh] [PBSP] and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) NAXALBARI [CPI (M-L) NAXALBARI]. The invitation observed that “… the present collapse of the RIM is the result of the paralysis of the Committee of the RIM (CoRIM) arising from positions, serious ideological, political differences that emerged among some member parties of the CoRIM.” 4 It went on to 6 state, “ Since the CoRIM has failed in the task it was entrusted with, we the undersigned parties are taking up the responsibility of organising a Special Meeting of the RIM … seeking the participation of all its member parties …” The tasks of this Meeting were proposed as “Identify and sum-up the ideological, political and organisational factors which have brought the RIM to the present crisis and collapse.” and “Decide on the schedule and agenda of an international conference of all Maoist forces, charged with the task of seeking out principled, ideologically consistent, unity amongst themselves and regrouping at the international level.” It was also clarified that “While these two should be the main agenda, other topics could be included depending on the decision of thedelegatesparticipatingintheEM.” All the parties involved in drafting the invitation had their definite views on what the “positions, serious ideological, political differences that emerged among some member parties of the CoRIM” were about. Yet this, as well as naming of the parties whose positions and differences was considered responsible for the “collapse of the RIM”, were purposefully avoided. It was considered that it would be better to place all of these matters directly in the meeting. The majority of the signatories were clear that the RCP had put itself outside the RIM and the broader international Maoist movement through its new ideological positions. But, in view of the unevenness and differences among RIM parties on this matter, it was commonly accepted that the RCP as well as other parties adhering to its positions should be invited. Every effort was made to 7 reach the invitation to all RIM participating parties and organisations through available channels. Parties directly approached were requested to pass on the invitation. Feedback showed that either the invitation or, at the minimum, information about the meeting had indeed reached everyone. The RCP position that it“doesnotintendtoparticipate”wasconveyedtothe invitingpartiesindirectly. While calling on all RIM parties to participate, it was clear to the inviters that a UCPN (M) led by the Prachanda-Bhattarai faction could not be allowed representation in the SM, given their blatant revisionism and sell out. The Maoist faction within the UCPN (M) struggling against the Prachanda- Bhattarai revisionist line was involved in the consultations during the drafting of the invitation. At that time they were expecting that the revisionist centre in the UCPN (M) could be ousted through a rebellion and a split avoided. They conveyed that this would definitely be realised well before the proposed meeting. This was the basis for including the name of the UCPN (M) as a signatory in a draft of the invitation. It was clearly understood that if the separation from the Prachanda-Bhattarai revisionist centre was not actualised the Maoist faction would be participating only as observers. Later, when it became clear that these comrades' rebellion was getting deferred, it was decided (through consultations involving them as well) to remove UCPN (M) from the list of signatories. Thus, only the four parties mentioned above appeared as signatories on the finalised version of the invitation that was sent out to allRIMparties,excepttheUCPN(M). 8 In keeping with the proposed agenda two draft resolutions were prepared. Since contact with the PBSP was broken for a lengthy period these resolutions were prepared without their participation. But the finalised drafts could be reached to them. Just around the time when the Special Meeting was to be convened, the PBSP informed that it would not be participating due to logistical reasons. It was their opinion that “RCP’s New Synthesis has not been debated. Without much debate and analysis this type of line-question should not be settled”. Conveying news about a letter the RCP is writing to all RIM parties, they had in a separate communication suggested that the SM be postponed till that letter was received and studied.5 This suggestion was rejected. The SM was carried out with a delegation of the Red FactionoftheUCPN(M)joiningasobserver. So this was the first time we heard about the RCP’s letter.Itstimingwasquitesuspicious.Forseveralyears now the RCP has been publicly propagating that the ideas of its Chairman must be adopted by the international communist movement as its ideological basis.6 This amounts to liquidating the ideological foundations of the RIM.7 The very relevance of the international Marxist-Leninist-Maoist movement was being negated. The RCP had been continuously refusing to discharge the responsibilities assigned to it within the RIM. Hence it was quite obvious that the sudden inspiration to write to all RIM parties was a devious response to the SM, meant to derail or at the leastdelayit.Thatfailed. The RCP letter was finally sent out, deceitfully 9 labelled “Not for Publication”; remember, this was coming from a party that had placed itself outside the ranksoftheRIMinallsenses!Butanyploy,nomatter how ludicrous, must be allowed its due share of time. That is the one thing the RCP can’t spare. It is in a blind rush to impose its ideas, ‘everywhere and everywhen’. So, hardly two months later, the ‘internal’letterwentonline,evenattheriskofgetting exposed in its misleading game of ‘adherence to norms’.ThatishowthingsstandwiththeRCP’sletter anditsvaryingavatars. 10
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