I don’t know if it’s just me or that I spend too much time reading YouTube comment sections or occasionally the enemy’s subreddit that is has given me a distorted perception of the masses or if it’s actually true that the broad masses are as reactionary and fascistic as they seem online and in media. It gives a kind of paranoia, a correct paranoia, that the Soviets felt in the 30s. I guess what I’m asking or looking for is whether my view of the American masses is distorted because of what I see online or if my view is correct. I prefer to be wrong on this.
MIM?
The Maoist Internationalist Movement. I read their articles evaluating other groups in the US, and some of their defences of Mao and Stalin back in the day. I thought they were kooky, mainly because of their “All Sex is Rape” line (which today, I’m absolutely positive they didn’t actually believe, but would say it just to keep certain types of liberals out of their organization), but I also didn’t accept their labor aristocracy line, until years after their founder Henry Park went crazy and died. When I finally came back to them after years of student activism, I found they actually do some have some interesting stuff on the topic in their old newsletters, but really, they were not very good at putting forth the position.
Anyway, here are the archives of their site, hosted by the only remaining cell still operating of MIM, MIM Prisons. Warning: it is possible they have altered some stuff here and there, and have themselves admitted to doing it when former members requested to have their writings removed from the site. But I think 99% of it is there and unaltered.
https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/