By Steve Otto
Sometimes it feels as if I’m the only Maoist left
in America. I know that isn’t really true. I know of one other Marxist-Leninist
in the whole town of Wichita and I don’t see him very often, if ever.
I used to follow the Kasama
Project. They broke away from the Revolution Communist Party. That
party was already getting too dogmatic. They have this great leader Bob Avakian who is
their main theoretician. But Kasama broke away from the great leader approach
while Bob and his RCP went even further to the “have you seen the truth” (The Watchtower method) or religious style promotion of politics and
leadership.
Meanwhile Kasama collapsed. They simply gave up. They
no longer do anything.
Over the decades we had the people’s war in Peru
and Nepal. The guerrilla movement in Peru collapsed, in 1992. The Guerrillas in
Nepal won an end to the monarchy, but they ended up in a bourgeois democracy.
The Maoist had won the fist election, but now they represent a little over 10
percent of the seats in the Nepal congress. A splinter group has broken away to
build back the revolution, but they seem stuck.
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is the only
real Maoist party with any real territory it operates in or controls. Efforts
in Bhutan and other places in Asia just haven’t done well.
So Maoism is stuck for now. I recently joined
back into Democratic Socialist of America
(DSA). There are some local people in it that I can work with. It is better to
try and do something rather than just sit back and write articles for Otto’s War Room, my present Maoist blog.
I plan to keep it up for international issues and as an anti-imperialist blog.
But I’m building up The Idiot Factor:
Corruption Folly. I will be attending DSA meetings and seeing what kinds of
activities we can take part in. I was active in DSA before. Now I’m back again.
It may be politically incorrect for some groups of people, but right now I just
don’t care. I want to be doing something.
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