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Nov. 1, 2003, Nº 290

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he talk show circuit in Amerikkka

currently features a conservative

and liberal talking about hate for

President George W. Bush. The

supposedly remarkable thing is that a 31-

year-old writer for the New Republic

named Jonathan Chait admitted that he

can't stand how Bush walks and talks in

an article posted by the New Republic

magazine September 22, 2003.

Supposedly, the subject of Bush's

stupidity is now "out of the closet." In

MIM Notes 271, MIM showed that at

least at one Boston rally where we

conducted a poll, there was a number of

Democrats who thought the war on Iraq

was the "dumbest" thing. These sorts of

Democrats dominate in the rallies. They

are astonished by Bush's "foreign policy"

actions and do not see a system of

imperialism, just actions carried out by the

Bush administration liable to leave

Amerikkka looking "terrorist" itself.

Regarding the discussion of Jonathan

Chait, The Washington Post even

acknowledged a website that pointed out

the Bush family's doing business with

Nazis. Of course, The Washington Post

did not elaborate on that or other top U.S.

officials doing business with the Nazis.(1)

In September 2002, other facts came

out published in a new book based on U.$.

Government archives about how the

Democratic President Franklin D.

oward Dean, a medical doctor

and Governor of Vermont, is a

surprise early breakaway

Democratic candidate for president. He

has attracted many people previously

uninvolved in Presidential politics. His

progressive appearance appeals to liberal

Democrats, Dean remains firmly in the

imperialist camp.

Last month MIM reviewed Dennis

Kucinich, another Democrat running for

president who appeals to progressives and

activists. We pointed out that it is people

like him who can be the most dangerous

as they fool otherwise progressive people

into serving imperialist goals. Dean also

enjoys a significant following among anti-

war activists and other progressives, so

MIM now turns to review Dean.

Dean's opening statement on his web

site jumps right in to addressing foreign

policy: "I have serious concerns about the

increasingly unilateralist approach to

foreign policy we have seen from the

current Administration, particularly in the

President's posture toward Iraq. Any

President must be prepared to use force

in defense of our nation's interests. Had

I been in Congress, however, I would have

voted against the resolution providing the

President sweeping authority to wage war

against Iraq, because I did not believe the

President made the case that war was

justified. I am also concerned about the

President's foreign policy priorities. The

war on terror--against an enemy that has

killed over three thousand innocents on

our soil--is far from over, yet the

President's decision to lead us into war

in Iraq has distracted us from pursuing

the known threat of Al Qaeda.

Meanwhile, serious emerging threats--

like North Korea's quest to become a

But umph for

revolution lacking

in British anti-war

movement

ew have noticed (including those in

the international communist

movement), but since the Iraq War

started, England has pushed itself to the

brink of a revolutionary opportunity. The

number of troops currently left "at home"

to defend against a revolutionary

movement is minuscule.

One officer in England said, "`we have

not only taken everything out of the

cupboards, we've stripped all the shelves

bare.'"(1) In one move in early 2003, the

British sent over a quarter of the Army

to the Gulf. Another 19,000 troops were

covering for the fire department workers

on strike, a fact that gives the fire

workers' strike an objectively

revolutionary character.

Mindful of this difficulty, England

quietly cut back on its troop deployment

to the Gulf. Of 30,000 sent in one move

to confront Saddam Hussein, only

approximately 11,000 remain on the

ground in Iraq. More are in the

neighboring countries. All told, 46,000

Howard Dean represents Amerika

DESPITE WEAK

INTERNATIONALIST

RHETORIC, DEAN

SUPPORTS

IMPERIALISM

British personnel were sent to the Middle

East to handle Saddam Hussein.(2)

To address U.$. concerns, England sent

another 1200 troops back to Iraq in

September 2003. Here is how the British

military is still talking about the situation.

"Defence Analyst Garth Whitty, a former

Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army

and weapons inspector in Iraq in 1992,

says it may be all that the Army had to

offer in the wake of their recent efforts

in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"GARTH WHITTY: I think the British

Armed Forces are probably already

overstretched, but the reality is there is

no alternative but to maintain a presence

until such time as Iraq is stabilized and

that could take as long as five years."(3)

According to the British Army itself, it

is "deployed in over 80 countries around

the world."(4) With about a total of

107,000 Army troops probably since

decreased from lack of re-enlistment,

there are 5500 in Kosovo, almost 3,000 in

Bosnia, 500 in the Falklands islands, about

27,000 "headquartered" in Germany and

approximately 15,000 in Ireland--to name

a few. In Afghanistan, Britain has 100

troops, but it has 4000 on stand-by as of

October 2003. They would be there

already except that the Northern Alliance

England faces quasi-

revolutionary opportunity

Tolerating the

intolerable

NO DEMOCRATS

TRULY HATE

BUSH

Kobe case brings
out Amerikkka

The preliminary hearings for the Kobe

Bryant rape case have already brought

out the hopelessness of the dominant

Amerikkkan views on crime, gender and

race relations. As usual, MIM cannot

guarantee that the media is reporting any

factual truth in connection to the trial, or

even more importantly, whether it has

bothered to digest the facts in an intelligent

way. However, we can speak as if the

facts reported were true and we can also

speak to the media's presentation in its

own right.

We mean no disservice to the accused

or accuser, but public opinion in this case,

like similar ones, deserves dissection. Our

Colorado: the intersection

of insanity and irrationality

starting point has to be

how individualism

utterly fails to reduce

crime.

These past few days,

the fireworks in the case

are reportedly about

"shield law" logic and

the evidence. On the one hand,

Amerikkkans believe they can individually

ascertain the truth about rape cases like

this one and bring about justice. On the

other hand, their laws are so self-

contradictory thanks to their underlying

ideology based on fantasy instead of

reality that it is apparent that such an

endeavor is impossible.

Under the "shield law" logic operating

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MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 2

What is MIM?

The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) is the collection of existing or emerging

Maoist internationalist parties in the English-speaking imperialist countries and their English-

speaking internal semi-colonies, as well as the existing or emerging Maoist Internationalist
parties in Belgium, France and Quebec and the existing or emerging Spanish-speaking
Maoist Internationalist parties of Aztlan, Puerto Rico and other territories of the U.$. Empire.

MIM Notes is the newspaper of MIM. Notas Rojas is the newspaper of the Spanish-speaking
parties or emerging parties of MIM. MIM upholds the revolutionary communist ideology
of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and is an internationalist organization that works from the

vantage point of the Third World proletariat. MIM struggles to end the oppression of all
groups over other groups: classes, genders, nations. MIM knows this is only possibly by
building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle. Revolution is a reality for

North America as the military becomes over-extended in the government's attempts to
maintain world hegemony. MIM differs from other communist parties on three main
questions: (1) MIM holds that after the proletariat seizes power in socialist revolution, the

potential exists for capitalist restoration under the leadership of a new bourgeoisie within
the communist party itself. In the case of the USSR, the bourgeoisie seized power after the
death of Stalin in 1953; in China, it was after Mao's death and the overthrow of the "Gang

of Four" in 1976. (2) MIM upholds the Chinese Cultural Revolution as the farthest advance
of communism in humyn history. (3) As Marx, Engels and Lenin formulated and MIM has
reiterated through materialist analysis, imperialism extracts super-profits from the Third

World and in part uses this wealth to buy off whole populations of oppressor nation so-
called workers. These so-called workers bought off by imperialism form a new petty-
bourgeoisie called the labor aristocracy. These classes are not the principal vehicles to

advance Maoism within those countries because their standards of living depend on
imperialism. At this time, imperialist super-profits create this situation in the Canada, Quebec,
the United $tates, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Italy, Switzerland,

Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden and Denmark. MIM accepts people as
members who agree on these basic principles and accept democratic centralism, the system
of majority rule, on other questions of party line.

"The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should

regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of

learning terms and phrases, but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution."

- Mao Zedong, Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 208.

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Lifelong
revolutionary

Revolutionary greetings,
Upon receiving your letter I was

pleased to see the support you offer to us

prisoners so we can better ourselves --
or at least try -- and also come to

understand that imperialism is the highest

form of capitalism and the United Snakes
is all about capitalism.

I am originally a Mayan Indian from

the Pipil tribe in El Salvador. I lived through
12 years of war in my country. The

struggle of our armed movement (FMLN

[Farabundo Marti National Liberation
Front -ed]) became so powerful with the

help of the people, we were ready to

overthrow the corrupt government run by
the oligarchy in my country, until the United

Snakes came into the picture under the

leadership of Carter and later Reagan.

My whole life I've studied communism

and socialism. I've involved myself in

youth parties and marches. I've been
incarcerated for almost 5 years now. I

have continued to study my political

beliefs, but it's been much harder due to
the lack of literature and money. I have

also paid a great price by being put in the

hole on false charges just because I refuse
to shut my mouth . . ..

I like and enjoy sharing knowledge with

people and the more I talk and discuss

politics, the better I understand it. I will

also try to encourage other people to try
and involve themselves with your

movement, but I cannot make any

promises.

-- A Virginia prisoner, April 2003

MIM responds: We are glad to work

with someone with your experience and
knowledge. It is important to understand

that without the United $tates the

oligarchy in El Salvador would have been
overthrown a long time ago, as you say.

Of course, without the influence of

colonialism in the first place the oligarchy
never would have come to rule the

country. On the other hand, El Salvador

was also squeezed between the U.$. and
Soviet Union-backed neocolonialism --

or social imperialism -- leaving the

revolutionary movement there to face the
difficult choice of siding with the Soviets

or going the independent road. We think

history shows their decision to side with
the ex-USSR was a mistake, as their

collapse brought down the FMLN also.

Nevertheless, there were many dedicated
revolutionaries in El Salvador committed

to liberating their people, and many of

them gave their lives in the struggle. We
are glad to see this struggle contributed

to your own commitment, and look

forward to working with you to advance
the cause of liberation from imperialism.

MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 3

October 18 -- In solidarity with other

prison activist organizations, MIM, RAIL,

the Barrio Defense Committee (BDC)

and the Prison Reform Unity Project held

a four-hour rally in San Francisco

demanding the Security Housing Units

(SHUs) in California prisons be shut

down. October 18 was the day of rallies

across the country called for by the Prison

Reform Unity Project. MIM and RAIL

have been on the streets in San Francisco

and Oakland most Saturdays protesting

the SHU, collecting petition signatures and

distributing literature. We organized this

protest on the 18th as a part of our

ongoing work around this issue.

The SHU is another name for a control

unit. Internationally condemned as a form

of torture by the UN, Control Units are

prisons within a prison. Prisoners are

locked in these cells for years at a time

under conditions that include solitary

confinement, 23+ hours a day in a tiny

cell, sensory deprivation, no education, no

job training, and little exercise. Under

these conditions many prisoners have

serious mental and physical health

problems. In California, close to 3000

prisoners are locked in the SHU,

disproportionately Blacks and Latinos.

Many of these prisoners are put in the

SHU as punishment for their political

activism behind the bars. California SHU

prisons are notorious for their human

rights violations.

This demonstration was effective in

reaching large numbers of people on the

streets of San Francisco on a busy

Saturday afternoon. MIM, RAIL, the

BDC, and the African Peoples Solidarity

Committee (APSC) committed members

to spending the afternoon at the rally. We

were joined by members of a few other

prison activist organizations who helped

collect petition signatures or just stopped

by to show support and talk about

organizing work.

We set up a literature table, some big

banners and a cardboard replica of a

SHU cell at the protest. Signs around the

outside condemned these torture units. A

wooden SHU replica built by the APSC

has worked well at rallies in the past but

is very difficult to transport. Activists in

San Francisco have been experimenting

with other models and we would welcome

design input. The set up at this protest was

very effective at getting people's

attention. A 6 by 8 cell is very small and

the visual provides an excellent reference

for people on the streets while we explain

the conditions prisoners face in the SHU.

Many copies of MIM Notes were

distributed with a cover story on the SHU

hearings in Los Angeles. And hundreds

of petition signatures were gathered from

passers by who stopped to learn more

about the SHU prisons. Several people

asked incredulously if these were really

in the United $tates and were shocked to

hear that we were talking about California

prisons. This education work is one of the

important reasons we hold protests like

San Fran rally to shut down the Security Housing Units

this one.

A member of the Barrio Defense

Committee whose son is locked up in the

SHU spoke eloquently about the need to

hold these protests: "The legal battles in

the courts of the U.S. government are

not enough to seek justice. [T]he people

must be informed and won over to shut

down these institutions of repression.

These actions will not only free my son

Jose Luis but all of our gente from these

prisons of hell!" Props also go to the BDC

activists whose primary language is

Spanish but who struggled with English

speaking people walking by and engaged

in some heated arguments refusing to let

the language barrier stop them from doing

this important work.

Activists at this rally agreed more

regular actions like this one are needed.

We need help from people throughout the

Bay Area who would like to help organize

a rally in their city. It doesn't take

hundreds of people to make a big impact.

George W. Bush
before the Iraq war

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and

improving facilities that were used for

the production of biological

weapons."

--United Nations Address,

September 12, 2002

"Iraq has stockpiled biological and

chemical weapons, and is rebuilding

the facilities used to make more of

those weapons."

"We have sources that tell us that

Saddam Hussein recently authorized

Iraqi field commanders to use

chemical weapons -- the very

weapons the dictator tells us he does

not have."

--Radio Address, October 5, 2002

"The Iraqi regime . . . possesses

and produces chemical and biological

weapons. It is seeking nuclear

weapons."

"We know that the regime has

produced thousands of tons of

chemical agents, including mustard

gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."

"We've also discovered through

intelligence that Iraq has a growing

fleet of manned and unmanned aerial

vehicles that could be used to

disperse chemical or biological

weapons across broad areas. We're

concerned that Iraq is exploring ways

of using these UAVS for missions

targeting the United States."

"The evidence indicates that Iraq

is reconstituting its nuclear weapons

program. Saddam Hussein has held

numerous meetings with Iraqi

nuclear scientists, a group he calls

his "nuclear mujahideen" - his

nuclear holy warriors. Satellite

photographs reveal that Iraq is

rebuilding facilities at sites that have

been part of its nuclear program in

the past. Iraq has attempted to

purchase high-strength aluminum

tubes and other equipment needed

for gas centrifuges, which are used

to enrich uranium for nuclear

weapons."

--Cincinnati, Ohio Speech,

October 7, 2002

"Our intelligence officials estimate

that Saddam Hussein had the

materials to produce as much as 500

tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve

agent."

--State of the Union Address,

January 28, 2003

"Intelligence gathered by this and

other governments leaves no doubt

that the Iraq regime continues to

possess and conceal some of the

most lethal weapons ever devised."

--Address to the Nation, March 17,

2003 (1)

George W. Bush after finding no
weapons of mass destruction.

"Let's get the words right. I said

Saddam had weapons of mass

destruction and he used them. Which

he did. And second I said he was a

gathering threat. And that's an

important distinction."(2)

The above refers to weapons that

may have been used by Saddam Hussein

before 1991. It is a continuous trick of

the spinmeisters Blair and Bush to jump

around from before 1991 to 1998 to

2003. Bush has said repeatedly that

Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass

destruction (WMD) in 2003. That is

what is important.

As we go to press, the Iraqi people

fighting for their freedom have killed

another two U.$. soldiers occupying their

country near Kirkuk. "With the latest

deaths, 338 U.S. troops have been killed

in the Iraq war since it began in March

-- 218 of those by hostile fire."(3)

Many of those who died knew before

they died that Saddam Hussein had told

the truth. He had had no weapons of mass

destruction for many years. It was the

product of the "democratic system" Bush

who lied. Those who believe in bourgeois

democracy will say that Bush is

undermining it while we Marxist-Leninist-

Maoists will say that political truth

production suffers where politicians

depend on corporations for campaign

contributions: secure dictators may in fact

tell more truth without fear of retaliation

for the good deed.

Before the war, the bourgeois

reformists said that U.$. troops could not

do any better job of inspecting for

weapons than the UN. In fact, as Putin

pointed out after the war started, no one

would believe U.$. weapons inspectors

unless the weapons had appeared right

away, which they didn't. Whereas UN

weapons inspectors would have some

bourgeois credibility, few would put it past

the CIA to plant some weapons of mass

destruction and then "discover" them.

Some of the people in charge of finding

WMD in Iraq have a vested interest in

finding them. David Kay had said the UN

could not find them: "For me, the real

change occurred in '94. By 1994 I was

no longer an inspector, but I was testifying

and writing on Iraq that `There is no

ultimate success that involves UNSCOM.

It's got to be a change of regime. It's got

to be a change of Saddam.'"(4)

Now with the U.$. invasion, we learn

further details of the real motivations for

the U.$. refusal to let UN sanctions on

Iraq die. "By that time [1994--

mim3@mim.org], all that was left of

Iraq's WMD programmes were reports,

memories and ruined establishments.

"Hussain Kamil, who headed all Iraqi

WMD programmes, had attested to that

in his testimony to Hans Blix, who was in

charge of UNSCOM in 1995.

"Kamil died in 1996 but his testimony

was suppressed for another seven

George Weasel Bush getting away with murder

Proletarians fight hard to oppose Iraq occupation

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Flashback to

MIM Notes

144 on the

Dulles

brothers

The Swedish family that owns half of

Sweden has long had a reputation in the

bourgeois media for helping the Jews
avoid the Holocaust. Now it turns out that

diplomat-legend Raoul Wallenberg's

family profited from the Nazi murder of
Dutch Jews.

The Swedish capitalists bought the

Nazi-stolen bonds of the Dutch Jews and
accepted Dutch Jewish gold in payment

for weapons. Assisting the Wallenberg

family was future Secretary of State and
past U.$. Government lawyer, John Foster

Dulles, who was the grandson of one

Secretary of State and the nephew of
another.

After the Nazi invasion of Poland, John

Foster Dulles arranged the legal work for
the Nazis to have Amerikan companies

front for them through a Swedish

intermediary, so that the Nazis could carry
out their war-time business without being

taken over.

John's brother Allen was instrumental

during World War II in starting a program

of infiltration of communist parties with

the aim of their "peaceful evolution" after
the war. He also helped Nazis escape and

join the precursor to the CIA once the

Nazis lost.

Both Stalin and Mao specifically

mentioned the Dulles brothers and their

strategy, but many at the time did not
believe these communist leaders. This

includes the petty-bourgeoisie in the party

of Mao, which eventually became the
new bourgeoisie of China. It is a stark

reminder how proletarian leaders must

deal with the petty-bourgeoisie and its
paralysis -- being lodged between the

two great classes -- right in the party.

Allen became director of the CIA and

John Foster Dulles became Secretary of

State in 1953.

We communists are fortunate that

some older Jews still living did not keep

their mouths shut till death. Many who

know the facts kept quiet while they sided
with the United $tates in the Cold War.

Now the truth is coming out thanks to the

collapse of the Soviet bloc and thanks to
the Jews' self-interest in the matter.

Now Sweden is being blamed in addition

to Switzerland for holding Nazi gold --
7.6 tons. The discussion of this matter

vindicates Stalin repeatedly.

Note: Boston Globe 6Jul97, pp. 1, A10.

Roosevelt was pursuing a separate peace

with Nazi Germany in World War II,

contrary to his open deal with Stalin which

aimed at Germany's unconditional

surrender to the Allies jointly. The picture

starts with the Nazi dealings of the Dulles

brothers, one who came to head the CIA

and the other who came to be Secretary

of State.

Since Allen Dulles was a father figure

for the CIA, it's not surprising that the

CIA whitewashes his business dealings

with the Nazis by giving him credit for

getting his law firm to shut down offices

in Berlin,(2) when most of his business

dealings with Nazis were in Switzerland

and Sweden anyway, including after the

Nazi invasion of Poland that caused

England and France to declare war.(3)

On the other hand, ever so obliquely, the

CIA has now admitted that Allen Dulles

was trying to negotiate a separate peace

with Nazi Germany and that "Operation

Sunrise" did at least come to fruition in

Italy, where the CIA claims at least a few

hundred lives were saved by negotiations

with officers in Germany other than Hitler,

one SS General named Karl Wolff being

named in particular.(2)

One reason we have not heard much

of these records before is that the CIA

was not to offend Stalin publicly while

the war was on. The negotiations had to

be in secret. Another reason we have not

heard much about these records until now

is that they proved the U.$. strategy to

be daffy to such an extent that they

proved what communists had always said

about Nazism arising from capitalism.

Release of the truth damages liberal

capitalism's claim to being highly opposed

to fascism.

It turns out that the CIA's and FDR's

idea for a leader for a more "moderate"

Tolerating the intolerable

NO DEMOCRATS TRULY HATE BUSH

Germany was SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich

Himmler.(4) The Democratic

administration sought to make deals with

Himmler to end the war and turn him

against the Soviet Union. This in itself

would have made huge Cold War

propaganda, which is why the United

$tates did not admit this before the fall of

the Berlin Wall.

There should not be a single Jew, Gypsy

or persyn of Roma, Russian or Slavic

descent who is unclear about this. The

Democrats in power in the quintessential

liberal Democratic administration did not

care about the above list of peoples

anymore than the Republicans. In

principle the Democrats had not a whit

of concern if Himmler managed to wipe

out every last one of those peoples

wedged between Germany and the Soviet

Union, as long as Himmler fought the

Soviet Union. We at MIM cannot

understand how any of the above mostly

white people could possibly not be

communists in the tradition of Stalin.

Just as we said in MIM Theory #6, the

facts give the lie to the various Trotskyists

and crypto-Trotskyists who said Stalin did

not have to worry about the imperialists

uniting to divide the Soviet Union. Even

the FDR administration that earned its

laurels lambasting the patriotism of

Republicans opposed to war against the

Nazis was itself trying to make a deal

with the Nazis. Had Stalin not been very

active on this front, FDR may have

succeeded. That's not to mention what

the German-leaning Republicans of the

time would have done had they been

elected.

A joke about the Democrats asks "do

you belong to an organized political

party?" And the answer is "No, I'm a

Democrat." However, if there is one thing

true about the Democrats, it is that they

alternate power with Republicans.

Whatever good things Democrats may

do in power can be undone by

Republicans. More likely, as the example

of the Dulles brothers working for FDR

proves, the Democrats just do the same

things as the Republicans.

That's why it's not true that any

Democrats truly hate Republicans or

even fascists. To truly hate Republicans,

one must fight for a system where a

President George W. Bush's failure to

oppose the Confederate flag flying in

South Carolina state government

buildings(5) would be as impossible as

slavery.

There are times in history when hatred

is justified. We live in one now just as

Abe Lincoln lived in one in his day. Try

as they might, the North and South were

not able to get along in Abe Lincoln's day.

It was intolerance, not tolerance that made

Abe Lincoln the most beloved president

in U.S. history. It's by eliminating

possibilities of backwardness that the

whole people move forward.

In Lincoln's day, intolerance of slavery

and the eventual abolition of slavery made

it possible for North and South to live

together again. It is unity around

intolerance of starvation, homelessness

and preventable disease that need to unite

the humyn race this time around.

Notes:
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
articles/A46805-2003Oct18.html
2. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/
art06.htm
3. Boston Globe 6Jul97, pp. 1, a10
4. Denver Post 01Sept2002. http://
www.denverpost.com/Stories/
0,1413,36%257E26%257E829420%257E,00.html
5. http://www.nctimes.net/news/042100/jj.html

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Throughout the campaign leading up to

the California recall election, numerous

print and TV "analysts" drew more or

less flimsy analogies between new

California governor-elect Arnold

Schwarzenegger and Adolf Hitler--

ranging from "they were both Austrian

emigrants" to "Arnold's dad was a Nazi

Party member" to "Arnold's movies are

reactionary." These charges do not justify

calling Arnold a fascist in MIM's view.

Or, if you're going to call Arnold a fascist

at least be consistent and drop that label

on his Democratic competitors--to say

nothing of the 25% of the Amerikan public

who said they would vote for Klansman

David Duke.(1)

Outside of a promise to lower "the car

tax"--which will likely be difficult to

implement(2)--Schwarzenegger

studiously avoided saying anything of

substance during the campaign, relying

instead on clichés about "puke politics,"

"biased media," etc., posing as Hercules

poised to clean out the Augean stables of

Sacramento. After he won the election,

Arnold appointed a transition team that

includes prominent Democrats like San

Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr., Los

Angeles Mayor James Hahn, and Susan

Estrich, who managed Michael Dukakis'

1988 presidential campaign.(3)

At the same time, backers of

Democrats Davis and Bustamante

principally relied on ad hominem attacks

on the big Austrian, calling him

inexperienced, a Nazi sympathizer and a

male chauvinist. Davis signed some

progressive legislation during the

campaign, including laws protecting

domestic partners' rights and a law

allowing undocumented immigrants to get

California drivers licenses, but it was a

case of too little, too late.(4)

There is a kernel of truth to the "Arnold

= Adolf" prattle, but it applies to many

more Amerikan politicians than just

Arnold: Democrats, Republicans and

Independents included. German

columnists have picked up on it. One

wrote, "The more confused we are by

what [politicians] say, the greater our

longing for a man or woman with simple

words. The only problem is that it's the

wrong ones who usually master simple

language." Another paper "voiced

concern about calls for straight-talking

leaders, noting that Hitler had attacked

German parliament as a `Talking Shop'

before abolishing it." An "ordinary

German" interviewed by Reuters got into

the Hollywood spirit of Amerikan politics:

"We need someone like that to clean up

the mess and blow away the lousy

politicians."(5)

Criticism of the corruption and lack of

accountability built into bourgeois

democracy was indeed part of Hitler's

strategy, as it was a part of Arnold's.

Hitler was correct to say that rulers should

be held responsible with their own money

and blood(6), as MIM does, but Hitler

wanted to replace one kind of bourgeois

leadership with another, not overthrow the

bourgeoisie altogether. On this issue and

others, Hitler stole or co-opted correct

aspects of Marxism to use to his

advantage or for camouflage. It would

be a mistake for proletarian

revolutionaries to defend bourgeois

democracy across the board (or particular

elected leaders) just because Hitlers and

Arnolds attack it--that would not only

concede an important point where we

have a natural advantage to our enemies,

it would also tarnish our reputation by

associating us with "dumbocracy."(7)

Furthermore, both Arnold and Hitler

used their image as "outsiders," while

they remained firmly inside the capitalist

system (and in Arnold's case, inside

mainstream Amerikan politics). MIM

sees most criticisms of Arnold as an

"inexperienced outsider" as an attempt

by bourgeois technocrats to hold on to

power--it's the flip side of Arnold's

"puke politics" line, and just as void of

substance, if not more. Don't be confused

by prep school pedigrees, fancy degrees

and long resumes. Bourgeois technocrats

are no more intelligent than the rest of

us--if they take their bourgeois training

seriously, they're arguably less intelligent

than most. MIM encourages

revolutionaries to apply the "us or them"

test: who would you rather have in

power? It's a question of line. No amount

of technical expertise can turn an

MAO ON

JOHN

FOSTER

DULLES

There is a silver lining to having

scumbag reactionaries like the Dulles

brothers in power. Few people give Dulles

enough credit for inspiring Mao to launch

the Cultural Revolution.

"Khruschov's revisionism entirely

caters to the policy of `peaceful evolution'

which U.S. imperialism is pursuing with

regard to the Soviet Union and other

socialist countries. John Foster Dulles

said:

`. . .there was evidence within the

Soviet Union forces toward greater

liberalism which, if they persisted, could

bring about a basic change within the

Soviet Union.'

"The liberal forces Dulles talked about

are capitalist forces. The basic change

Dulles hoped for is the degeneration of

socialism into capitalism."

--Mao, "On Khrushchov's Phoney

Communism and Its Historical Lessons

for the World: Comment on the Open

Letter of the Central Committee of the

CPSU (IX)," Foreign Languages Press,

Peking, July 14, 1964.

Mao was the first communist leader to

talk about the Dulles "peaceful evolution"

strategy as a real possibility. He was right:

the Soviet Union dissolved itself without

a civil war, contrary to other theorists

including Trotsky.

Lessons from the California recall

Harbingers of fascism: imagined and real

The next governor of California.

imperialist hawk into a proletarian dove.

So the specter of fascism did pop up

during California recall election, just not

where most pundits saw it. The danger

lies in the populist demagoguery adopted

by Arnold and others--rhetoric already

popular among more extreme national-

chauvinist forces. The challenge to

proletarian revolutionaries is to defeat this

demagoguery without becoming

apologists for bourgeois democracy. As

we wrote in our review of Hitler's Mein

Kampf: "If the party can avoid pacifist

and parliamentary errors, it might be able

to squelch the fascist movement before

it arises. On the other hand, the strength

of the labor aristocracy may guarantee

the fascist movement a foothold that we

cannot handle at this stage in history."(6)

Notes:

1. MIM Notes 98, Mar 1995.

2. Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct 2003;

h t t p : / / w w w . l a t i m e s . c o m / n e w s /

p r i n t e d i t i o n / a s e c t i o n / l a - m e -

cartax10oct10000431,1,5062449.story?coll=la-

news-a_section.

3. The Sacramento Bee, 10 Oct 2003.

4. Backers of the "realist," "lesser evil"

theory: take note! Davis only dared tear

himself away from the Amerikan center

and take these progressive steps when

his job was threatened by another centrist

bourgeois politician. Wouldn't he (or any

other bourgeois politician) be more likely

to enact progressive reforms when faced

with a strong radical movement?

5. Reuters, 10 Oct 2003.

6. "Hitler with an eye on today, " MIM

Theory 13, pp. 125-129.

7. While MIM has always criticized

bourgeois democracy in the strongest

terms--see the Frequently Asked

Questions page on our website--we