RIM CHARLATANS (Part 2 of 2)

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Part 2 of 2

Trappist Monks Turn Into Village Charlatans
ANOTHER SOMERSAULT OF THE CIRCUS TUMBLERS OF RIM

by LUIS ARCE BORJA

RIM MAROONED BETWEEN THE 'PEACE LETTERS' AND THE PEOPLE'S WAR

In synthesis, both in Peru and abroad, the joint enterprise of
the police and the capitulationists has been ground to dust all
along the line.  The 'peace letters' that not even Fujimori dare
use anymore, have been consigned to the museum of plots and props
used against the PCP.  From this ordeal, the PCP and the People's
War have come out strengthed.  The RIM leaders say that 'the
greatest danger facing the Party today' is the the 'very right wing
opportunist line and the actions of those upholding it' .

They are being patently absurd.  If what they are saying was true we
would have to recognise that U.S. imperialism and Fujimori's 'peace
agreement' plot can still achieve its counter-revolutionary
objectives.  Besides, if this problem is as serious as they make it
out to be, why have they waited nearly two years to 'order' a struggle
aginst the opportunist line?

2.  The leaders of RIM say:  "IT IS URGENT TO CONTINUE THE EFFORTS TO
DISCOVER WHAT ARE CHAIRMAN GONZALO'S OWN VIEWPOINTS TODAY' . 'HOWEVER,
THE LINE IS THE CENTRAL ISSUE, NOT ITS AUTHOR' .

According to Lenin, opportunists strive:  "TO AGREE WITH BOTH SIDES
OF ANY ARGUMENT'..... and that "IT IS DIFFICULT TO PIN DOWN AN
OPPORTUNIST BY MEANS OF A READY MADE FORMULA.  OPPORTUNISM PRECISELY
CONSISTS IN  LACK  OF PRINCIPLE.  IT IS ALWAYS READY TO ENDORSE ANY
ONE FORMULA WITH THE SAME EASE THAT THEY WOULD RECANT FROM IT "  (V.I.
Lenin, One Step Forward,  Two Steps Back, May l904) .

This opinion of Lenin regarding opportunism fits the leaders of RIM
to a tee!.  What is the political thrust of the question mark poised
by the leaders of RIM about the viewpoints of the leader of the
Peruvian revolution?  It is clear as a bell!

By means of this question mark they smuggle in the peregrine
idea that the author and brain behind the 'peace agreement'
plot is Chairman Gonzalo himself.  Thus they openly side with
Fujimori's agents and the capitulationist gang in flogging to
death the idea that the 'peace negotiations'  are personally
directed by Chairman Gonzalo.  They conciliate with the idea
that he has actually made international telephone calls to
'order support'  for the  'peace agreement'  plot.

This ideal cannot but lead the leaders of RIM directly to
the side of counter-revolution.  To hold that Chairman Gonzalo
is leading the sell out of the People's War, is to portray
him as a political pygmy and a dirty capitulationist.  This
objective of the plot of  'peace letters'  is a main one.

The evil idea that the gentlemen of RIM smuggle in, aims
to reinforce the strategic anti-insurgency plans of the
government and of U.S. imperialism to liquidate Gonzalo
Thought.  This plan is based in the sinister use of the
figure of the leader and guide of the Peruvian revolution.
This method they have themselves designed as 'the war of
Gonzalo against Gonzalo' .  The leaders of RIM employ
the ruse of asking themselves:  ' What is really thiinking
Chairman Gonzalo?' .  They succeed only too well in casting
aspersions on the extraordinary theoretical and practical
contributions of Chairman Gonzalo.  They are also sowing
doubts about his integrity as a communist, specially
abroad.

Of what value could Gonzalo Thought's be if its own author
would betray it? .  The leaders of RIM, by using this ruse,
are affirming the authenticity of the "peace letters" and
presenting Dr. Guzman as their author.  With this ruse, the
ideologic-political backbone of the PCP centered upon Gonzalo
Thought as the synthesis and precisely the objective of
Peruvian reaction and U.S. imperialism.  Is this the great
love that the leaders of RIM feel for the Peruvian revolution?
With "friends"  like these, we don't need any more enemies! .

RIM:  FROM A VOW OF SILENCE TO UNBRIDLED LOQUACITY

"The line is central, not the author" , this principle that
would be valid under any other circumstances turns into cheap
aspersions in the mouth of the RIM leaders.

Why, if they truly upheld this principle, they did not apply
it since 1993?.  The political chicanery encapsulated in this
phrase is as follows:  In the specific case of the People's War,
and in the circumstances that surround it since the capture of
Chairman Gonzalo  (September 1992)  and with Fujimori's fraudulent
plot (October 1993) , one cannot arbitrarily separate  the general
political line of the revolution from its author.  To make this
distinction inevitably leads to placing a question mark
over the extraordinary theoretical and practical contribution
of Chairman Gonzalo.  It also leads directly into negation of
the validity of the political line that sustains the Peruvian
revolution.  To understand this problem, one must first understand
the inter-relation that exists between thePeople's War and Chairman
Gonzalo.  Both are elements of one and the same historical process.

We do not here in any way hold that the final destiny of the
Peruvian revolution is conditioned to the life or death of the
great Peruvian revolutionary.  We reject even the shadow of an
idealist and bougeois interpretation of the role of individuals
in history.  We believe in the laws of social development.  We
are sure that no accidental cause can stop the class struggle and
the revolutionary process.  However, we do defend and affirm the
great role and historical figure of Chairman Gonzalo for the
Peruvian process and the world proletarian revolution.  The
Chairman is today a foremost communists of our era.  In this
respect the PCP has this to say:

"We must study Gonzalo Thought basing ourselves upon the
historical context that produced it :  We must look into the
ideological basis that sustains it;  we must pinpoint its
contents, which are more in evidence in the general political
line and in the military line that is its kernel.  We must aim
to grasp the essence of this thought,  the issue of political
power, the issue of the conquest of power here in Peru.  This
issue is inextricably linked with the conquest of power for the
proletariat in the world... " .  (Fundamental Documents of the
PCP,  page 408, "Guerra Popular en Peru, el Pensamiento Gonzalo",
June 1989) .

VULGAR METAPHYSICIANS.

The RIM leaders defend vulgar metaphysical positions about Marxist
philosophy.  Their philosophical outbursts billed as "principled"
are sheer petty bourgeois idealism.  From the standpoint of
historical materialism the great leaders of the oppressed classes
are the product of specific social conditions and historical
developments.

These leading figures form an inseparable whole with the
processes of social revolution in which they are immersed.  The
great leaders and figures in the camp of the oppressed masses
are not merely the representatives of the most advanced ideas of
the era.  They are also the prototype of revolutionary ethics,
moral and behaviour.

Siince the time of Spartacus 70 years BC, from the time of Marx,
Engels, Lenin, Mao Tsetung and comrade Stalin, revolutionary
thought and practice have always formed a unity.  No one imagines
Marxism as the product of capitulationists and traitors.

To separate Gonzalo Thought from the political life and praxis
of Chairman Gonzalo, is nothing less that an aberrant falsification
of the materialistic outlook in history.  This is barely a excuse
to deny the life and works of the leader of the People's War.  To
deny it as part and parcel to the class struggle and the acme of
development of the Peruvian proletariat.

In synthesis, by using the ruse of 'line is central and not its
author',  the "Maoists" in the leadership of RIM who trail behind
the capitulationists are playing an identical role to that of the
worse enemies of the Peruvian revolution.  This contradicts the
position and analysis of the Central Committee of PCP:  The Party
very clearly, and in different documents, defends the life and
also the historical role of Chairman Gonzalo as one of the greatest
Marxists-Leninists-Maoists of the present era.  TheParty totally
rejects the idea that the great leader of the People's War has
turned himself into  a miserable peddler and merchant of the
revolution.

3.   The leaders of RIM say.  "The Committee of RIM calls upon
the whole Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and Marxist-
Leninists-Maoists of the world:  To struggle in defense of the
People's War in Peru and support the comrades of the Communist
Party of Peru in preserving the achievements of the revolution,
defeating the right wing opportunist line ... " .

If this call had been issued in October 1993 and not in March 1995,
it would have been surely taken seriously both in Peru and at the
world level .  However,  today,  when the wheel of history has
taken many full turns and so much water has passed under the bridges,
this call sounds merely like a Siren song.

These highfalutin words supporting the People's War, the PCP,  and
the struggle against the "Right wing line", reflect the hypocritical
and opportunist tone of the document we are criticising.  The
battle cry of the RIM leaders against the "Right wing opportunist
line", is a smoke screen to hide their own opportunist features.  It
is like a burglar who when found out loudly cries:  'catch thief'
pointing to his accomplice ! .  Why all this shrieking now and not
before? .

One of the characteristics of opportunism is to adapt itself to
the best circumstances of the moment.  They never want to lose
out on the best opportunity.  Opportunism is always vague.
Opportunism looks for advantages and tries to remain aloof from
the class conflicts.

Today, the RIM Committee, is the least appropriate agency to lead
and mobilise the Marxist-Leninists-Maoists of the world and to
support the armed struggle in Peru.

The opportunist attitude of the RIM leaders in the affair of the
"peace letters",  has landed them in a veritable cul-de-sac.  They
are totally isolated and rejected by 99%  of the RIM bases.  Besides,
they are held in contempt by many organisations and political parties
abroad.  These are forces, who, while not part of RIM, have
nevertheless struggled and supported the PCP's position on the
issue of the "peace letters" .  Evidently what the RIM leaders
desperately want is to again climb aboard the train of revolution
and stave off their final and total bankruptcy.

BRIEF SYNTHESIS.  WHAT DO THE RIM LEADERS WANT?

The ' theoretical '  lucubrations of the RIM leaders and their
efforts to distort the concrete reality ofthe People's War, are
aimed at the following objectives:

1.  Dangerously, they seek to endorse and give legal currency
to the authenticity of the "peace letters" .  They seek to depict
these letters as the political expression of a group of  militants
and sympathizers of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) .  The
political expression of people, whether misguided or not, who are
part of the Party.  Not as capitulationists and police agents as the
Central Committee of PCP and others hold.

In this manner, the RIM leaders are trying to conceal the
'peace letters'  true character as a police plot of the Fujimori
regime,  U.S. imperialism and their agents.  On this point, the
position of the RIM leaders is identical to the position of the
Fujimori regime and of the most rabid enemies of thePeruvian
revolution.  In this manner, directly or indirectly they side with
all those who speak of the 'two Shining Paths' ,  one led by
'Feliciano' and the other by Chairman Gonzalo.

2.  The rhetoric of the RIM leaders serves for keeping imperialist
propaganda around the ' peace agreement '  alive, an issue that has
already been amply disposed off by the PCP.

Also, alongside this insidious idea, they bestow the title of
'internal Party contradiction'  to a gang of capitulationists and
police agents.  To people who have already been unmasked and smashed,
both in Peru and abroad.

It is because of this that the RIM leaders shout: " Of the outcome
of this struggle will depend the future " of the People's War.   With
this message, they attempt to smuggle the idea that the 'contradictory
line' is strong wihin the PCP.  That this is is a line whose power
'could ' decide the course of the war.

3.  By using the metaphysical, anti-dialectical plank of separating
'line from author'  the RIM leaders prop up the main aspect of the
imperialist campaign to portray Chairman Gonzalo as a capitulationist
leader.  Thus, they portray him as a leader of the same ilk, or
even worse, than other well-known merchants of armed struggles in
Latin America.

All these bombastic and high sounding words of the RIM leaders about
finding out ' what Chairman Gonzalo really thinks '  are clearly
aimed at sowing doubts.  These are words aimed at casting slurs
upon the unassailable communist morality of the leader of the PCP
and of the People's  War.

4.  The RIM leaders have gone into reverse.  Their last statement
has a strong opportunistic stench about it.  It is their idea of
a life line to save themselves from political bankruptcy.

What is the bottom line of this affair?.  In these last two years,
the RIM leaders somersaulted and danced like courtesans around
Fujimori's plot.

Meanwhile, in Europe and in other continents an important campaign
mobilising around the defense of the PCP and the People's War was
developing.  Scores of parties and political organisations, and
support groups,  promoted a vigorous battle against the
capitulationists of the 'peace letters'.

Nearly all the bases of RIM took part in this struggle.  From
this great anti-imperialist mobilisation,only the Revolutionary
Communist Party USA  (RCP-USA) , two tiny groups from Colombia, and
the  "Union of Iranian Communists"  (Sarbedaran)  stayed away.
This last organism is closely linked to the  RIM leaders.

Within this framework,  the leaders of RIM, overtaken by their own
bases, became isolated and lost authority.  Their false oaths of
loyalty to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism did not avail them very much.

5.  The call of RIM, to "defend the People's War in Peru"  is an
old  trick of rotten revisionists and opportunists  within the
International Communist Movement.  Bernstein and Kautsky in the
name of the  "working class and the socialist revolution"  went
over to the side of European imperialism.

Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachov also shouted "Long Live
Marxism-Leninism!", simultaneously they were dismantling and
liquidating Soviet power, they were accomplishing tasks on behalf
of the counter-revolution and were in cahoots with U.S. imperialism.

Trotsky, fancied himself as the greatest disciple of Lenin and the
great defender of the proletarian dictatorship.  However, he did
nothing but align himself with the worse enemies of the Russian
revolution.

Brussels, 9 May 1995.  (Article prepared for El Diario Internacional
N- 26 of 05/95) .




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