October 1 2008

MIM has steadily told readers when it is disappearing or having difficulties and why. We believe in accountability, so that it is possible to learn lessons from whatever bad or good happens. Currently, we have bottomed out and learned some more about the oppressors.

We have explained various repression problems and also strange opportunities that appeared when it seems we had many more friends than we thought. In the united $tates, many political practices go on that the media report only happen in Third World dictatorships.

Despite rumors, a direct MIM sellout is not easy. If it happened, we would report it. Rumors that have arisen are impossible for a variety of reasons, not least of all the persynal concessions from the enemy that would be necessary to put a MIM comrade in bourgeois circulation. This planet is majorly effed up by imperialism and hence MIM cannot sell out cheap and expect to see a nice future even a few years or decades forward.

Third World lobbying has appeal as a concept but no actuality as a replacement for MIM. At the moment, neither major party permits independent national lobbying from oppressed nations.

Unlike others who disguise their involvement in the Democratic Party, MIM would give up if it wanted to be in the Democratic Party. The formal term for trying to be both Maoists and Democrats is "revisionism."

Currently, the "RCP," other racist Democrats and Republicans align directly and repeatedly with the Department of Homeland Security and other executive branch agencies against MIM. The slanders and conspiracy need to stop. They amount to hate crimes.

For the record, MIM has to note that Ward Churchill and others were involved in an informal network effort to drive MIM aboveground 2005-6. The effort ended with a drive to have MIM join Democratic Party campaigning in 2006 as an above- ground player.

The effort was a dangerous conspiracy to anger a MIM comrade and it involved collaboration with the state. It was not appreciated. The effort came guised as assistance to MIM in its struggles, but involved longstanding collaborators with the state and racists hiding as something else. A sincere effort to help MIM would have been different.

Nothing MIM wrote in MIM Notes about Ward Churchill was false. We stand by our articles, but it has to be noted that we never heard anything from Ward Churchill and many others before 2005. Suddenly a raft of people appeared apparently to support MIM when in fact they had involved themselves in extensive deceptions against MIM. None of the people concerned have a line on informal networks or pseudo-feminism, because in practice they all use the 'ole boys' network and that dictates their vagueness on organizational and gender questions.

People who never worked with MIM and never contributed money appear out of no where with patronizing conspiracies. MIM is trying to set an example for anonymous work and building independent institutions of the oppressed to seize power. Our enemies can call themselves whatever they want, but they are collaborating with the imperialist state to drive MIM aboveground into the persyn-centered politics we have damned for 25 years.