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Thread on examples of maoists being willing dupes of the CIA, written by someone who agrees with maoism but not CIA collaboration.
Focusing on Western Maoist sects (as these are the most prominent on Twitter) but also the 3rd world groups they point to when called out.
Focusing on Western Maoist sects (as these are the most prominent on Twitter) but also the 3rd world groups they point to when called out.
In 1980 Australian Maoists attended a "Victory to the Afghan rebels" rally alongside trots, Nazis and organised international fascism.
The maoists stood beside this guy, plus a fascist front which today hides behind liberal migrant language.
Both the Captive Nations and the Afghan Mujihadeen were members of the World Anti Communist League
Both the Captive Nations and the Afghan Mujihadeen were members of the World Anti Communist League
For 15 years a "Maoist committee" was a legitimate part of the US left.
It was in fact one FBI agent with a "superb knowledge of Marxism-leninism" sending out communiques.
This FBI Maoist front vouched for informant Don wright and got him on Central committees with Bob avakian
It was in fact one FBI agent with a "superb knowledge of Marxism-leninism" sending out communiques.
This FBI Maoist front vouched for informant Don wright and got him on Central committees with Bob avakian
Amusingly, Bob avakians group did a nationwide "hands off the FBI" protest when Comey got fired in 2017
The Symbionese Liberation Army was a weird maoist CIA experiment in the 70s
"Comrade Bala" entrapped women around himself using study groups.
It seems some of the women he enslaved are maintaining a pretty good youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkebf5OI9FU6kr77VhUFzTg
It seems some of the women he enslaved are maintaining a pretty good youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkebf5OI9FU6kr77VhUFzTg
Apartheid South African mercenaries training UNITA rebels in Angola. Both the CIA and Maoist China supported the rebels against "Cuban Imperialism".
Canadian & Australian maoists rallied for UNITA
Canadian & Australian maoists rallied for UNITA
Mao meets with Pol pot.
China and the CIA supported the Khmer rouge, as do many Maoist groups today
China and the CIA supported the Khmer rouge, as do many Maoist groups today
TKP/ML Turkish Maoists fight in "rojava", partitioning Syria and setting up CIA military bases.
Apparently most of TKP/ML left Syria in 2014 over the issue of US imperialism, leaving a rump remaining.
At least one other Turkish Maoist party, MKP, and a bunch of "international brigade" Maoists are still there
At least one other Turkish Maoist party, MKP, and a bunch of "international brigade" Maoists are still there
So what were some of the results of the maoist influenced revolution in rojava?
Well they got the 2014 rojava constitution to start with the same opening lines as a 1958 Chinese communal declaration... Except they added explicit support for private property
Well they got the 2014 rojava constitution to start with the same opening lines as a 1958 Chinese communal declaration... Except they added explicit support for private property
Incidentally, all the communes of rojava were created from Syrian state property that was seized.
"Social fascist, Imperialist" Cuba has been doing something similar for 10+ years, except consensually and with its own land
"Social fascist, Imperialist" Cuba has been doing something similar for 10+ years, except consensually and with its own land
I can't find a link for it right now, but about 2 years ago rojava signed a deal with the US state department for them to run their civil society administration for 10 years
How the mass work that was going on in rojava?
Puppet front groups for minorities are set up to give the impression of mass support
Puppet front groups for minorities are set up to give the impression of mass support
Correction to Khmer Rouge tweet https://mobile.twitter.com/fitzsij/status/1170284321934065667
Sadly, Mao who in 1926 was performing groundbreaking Marxist analysis of the Chinese peasantry, was saying things like this in 1974
European "second world" Maoists called on membership of NATO and the EU as well as "peoples wars" against "first world Russian imperialism"
North American Maoists pulling every dirty trick to justify their alignment with the CIA and apartheid South Africa in Angola.
Sounds very familiar today.
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-3/index.htm
Sounds very familiar today.
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-3/index.htm
The Ad Hoc Committee, or FBI-ML, actually had very good analysis.
Worrisome given some of the excellent anonymous Marxist analysis online
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/adhocsds.htm
Worrisome given some of the excellent anonymous Marxist analysis online
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/adhocsds.htm
The CIA understand maoism just as well as the FBI, as seen in their Contra training manuals.
Their version of "Serve the people" while fighting for "national liberation" against "Social Imperialism"
https://mobile.twitter.com/jhal9000/status/989926940327858178
Their version of "Serve the people" while fighting for "national liberation" against "Social Imperialism"
https://mobile.twitter.com/jhal9000/status/989926940327858178
Maoist International endorsing Hong Kong protests.
They don't even pretend there is a left wing, liberalism is celebrated.
Including praising a "Lennon wall" stunt - Long Live Lennonism!
They don't even pretend there is a left wing, liberalism is celebrated.
Including praising a "Lennon wall" stunt - Long Live Lennonism!
This eagerness to see revisionist socialist countries collapse when there is an organised CIA fascist right and not much of an organised left seems cruel.
CPI Maoist were triumphal at the USSRs collapse, and now Maoists want history to repeat with PRC?
CPI Maoist were triumphal at the USSRs collapse, and now Maoists want history to repeat with PRC?
The title of the thread is not ideal, as (would have thought this is obvious, but) I don't think many individuals and groups mentioned so far here and after (eg Mao) were literal CIA dupes.
I didn't know what I'd find when I started looking for examples on this topic. Anyway..
I didn't know what I'd find when I started looking for examples on this topic. Anyway..
The International line of the communist party of Peru upheld the Three Worlds thesis:
The USSR was a fascist imperialist 1st world superpower, exploiting particularly 2nd world Europe.
They note European anti imperialism as particularly worth studying
The USSR was a fascist imperialist 1st world superpower, exploiting particularly 2nd world Europe.
They note European anti imperialism as particularly worth studying
In 1978 the CIA brought West German French and British intelligence to Argentina for an overview of Operation Condor and discuss how to improve the Gladio network at home
https://www.mintpressnews.com/declassified-cia-docs-uk-france-and-west-germany-wanted-to-bring-operation-condor-to-europe/257541/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/declassified-cia-docs-uk-france-and-west-germany-wanted-to-bring-operation-condor-to-europe/257541/
One of the Maoist parties of (Nazi successor state) West Germany demanding a more powerful national military to defend against the "fascist" USSR
French Maoists line that sending French paratroopers to their African colonies is an act of 2nd world self defense against 1st world social imperialism
British Maoists claim the British empire is part of a progressive front against Soviet world domination
British Maoists were also campaigning for 'Brentry' into the EU at the same time, again to combat "Soviet fascism".
Amusingly these 'mainstream' British Maoists had only a few more members and a lot less publicity than the Maoist cult mentioned before
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.hightide/closure.htm
Amusingly these 'mainstream' British Maoists had only a few more members and a lot less publicity than the Maoist cult mentioned before
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.hightide/closure.htm
US Maoists (who had 1000 people at their convention in 1975, which is what the DSA gets the year) joins in to ask why their government is 'appeasing' the #1 fascist and imperialist power in the world
Settler Maoists of Australia and Canada, as well as French empire Maoists campaign for their "national liberation" from superpower domination
Unsurprisingly, many of these "second world" European Maoists for NATO grew up to... Work for NATO.
Here's a few, I'm sure there are many
Here's a few, I'm sure there are many
Support for strengthening NATO and European colonialism of Africa stemmed from Three Worlds analysis, an echo of the Soviet Union attempt to stymie Nazi Germany except by the 60s the USSR was cast as Nazi.
Here's a look at how this analysis developed https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jbI7xiHBbwwdVqA5-qHplABQ3QCCExBI/view
Here's a look at how this analysis developed https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jbI7xiHBbwwdVqA5-qHplABQ3QCCExBI/view
Three World analysis was continued by the PCP in Peru, and is upheld by Gonzalo factions like Brasil and Bangladesh today.
Other Maoists fudge the issue, saying the problem was Dengs interpretation of it https://gplpcp.wordpress.com/international-line-of-the-communist-party-of-peru/
Other Maoists fudge the issue, saying the problem was Dengs interpretation of it https://gplpcp.wordpress.com/international-line-of-the-communist-party-of-peru/
Shameless 3W chauvinists from back in the day https://mobile.twitter.com/fitzsij/status/1179047055580389376
Hardinal Bains who set up this Canadian Maoist/opportunist group helped set up orgs in 5/6 other countries.
Here's a very long article by one of his followers about how he's definitely not CIA
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ca.firstwave/learnfromtheteachers/learnfrom.htm
Here's a very long article by one of his followers about how he's definitely not CIA
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ca.firstwave/learnfromtheteachers/learnfrom.htm
They had some good music though.
This is a song from their hoxhaist phase on a great victory in throwing some Maoists out of their meeting
This is a song from their hoxhaist phase on a great victory in throwing some Maoists out of their meeting
This is the remains of the cpc-ml aligned group in the USA. http://www.communistvoice.org/
The group Bains helped set up in Ireland was not too bad, maybe because Bains wasn't around for long.
The other Irish Maoist group 60s-90s was amazingly terrible though https://www.clririshleftarchive.org/organisation/44/
The other Irish Maoist group 60s-90s was amazingly terrible though https://www.clririshleftarchive.org/organisation/44/
The British & Irish Communist Organisation supported and had support of British establishment Imperialists and fascists. It's founder/secretary was a David Irving fan.
Some of their members are today senior New Statesman and Financial Times editors
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_Irish_Communist_Organisation
Some of their members are today senior New Statesman and Financial Times editors
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_Irish_Communist_Organisation
A Maoist group which upholds comrade Jim Jones
http://ruralpeople.atspace.org/rpp_recent_updates.htm
http://ruralpeople.atspace.org/rpp_recent_updates.htm
(as an aside: this thread is an unsorted first-draft investigation, but done in public. It has helped my own understanding of Maoism, and some examples I think are dead ends but others are worth a further look)
The woman talking to Reagan in this picture with the Afghan Mujihadeen was a member of RAWA, a Maoist front or affiliated group
https://www.hrw.org/reports/1991/afghanistan/5AFGHAN.htm
https://www.hrw.org/reports/1991/afghanistan/5AFGHAN.htm
