Maoist Internationalist Movement

2003 MIM Congress

Art under the dictatorship of the proletariat

Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, allow reactionary music and films to continue and phase in revisions of reactionary art, because we recognize it takes time. We seek to improve pop culture as fast as we can without leaving a vacuum.

[mim3@mim.org adds context comments: The above resolution was significant because the party started a two-line struggle over whether it is possible to cut existing pop culture back to what is progressive without leaving a vacuum or whether the culture-saturated imperialist countries like the united $tates would be left in a bad "vacuum" situation. The "vacuum theory" won out the day. This was in line with MIM's emphasis on its materialist tradition opposing nihilism and for offering real alternatives.]