Red Guards Austin: A Year's Summation of a Militant Maoist Organization in the US

[jiminykrix]

Hey, y'all.

I just wanted to pop on here to let you know that a new article was just released today, on Maosoleum, titled, "Red Guards Austin – A Year Summation of the Life of a Militant Maoist Organization in the U.S. Central South."

I don't visit revleft often at all, so unfortunately I'm not able to share the link, but if you google that title you should find it easily.

I myself am a (new) member of RGA. If you reply to this message with any questions, I'll be glad to try to answer them.

If it's inappropriate to share this type of article in this subforum, my bad! Please let me know where (if anywhere) it would be more appropriate to post it.

Thanks! Let's build the party!

[John Nada]

Is this it: http://maosoleum.ncp.lc/2016/02/04/red-guards-austin-a-year-summation-of-the-life-of-a-militant-maoist-organization-in-the-u-s-central-south/ Some highlines I found interesting
The earliest configuration of what was to become Red Guards Austin (RGA) was no more than three comrades who were gradually gravitating towards Maoism at various levels of development. We were still in the process of searching for an outlet for our revolutionary longing in the form of a preexisting “party.” Through careful study and consideration of both local and countrywide leftist groupings, we came to the conclusion that no such organization existed that could constitute a party, let alone one that had firm ideological anti-revisionism, mass work, and the clear participation and leadership of women and people of oppressed nations. We were adrift, leaning on our past experiences as anarchists, animal rights activists, and workers to help us develop into active communists. The first hurdle we faced was due in part to our class backgrounds: none of us had finished high school, let alone received a college education, unlike most of the white middle-class left we had encountered in Austin. We became revolutionary communists out of a dire need for revolution spurred on by our low social status and difficult economic conditions. We were quickly disillusioned by the pomp of local university leftist organizations and had experienced nothing but alienation from them in the past.This problems seems to be a common one. Even for those not into this tendency, this could be of interest.
...We knew the strategy of the APD to be one of low-intensity warfare. They aimed to improve their image among the people in a liberal city by avoiding cracking heads and making arrests and by instead “allowing people to protest safely.” This way they could promote themselves as a tolerant, progressive department and whitewash their crimes past and present."War is a continuation of politics by another means". Clausewitz's maxim was know by Lenin and Mao. The left needs to rediscover this and drop liberal ideas that the state is at peace unless provoked. The US(and likely other countries) pigs knows they're waging a counterinsurgency against the proletariat and oppressed peoples. If more people were made aware of this and more protest were planned with this in mind, things would be much more effective.

Maybe this is more a Practice and Propaganda or Anti-fascism topic?

[Art Vandelay]

Obviously I have some pretty severe ideological differences with the authors of the piece, but nonetheless it was a really interesting read. It sounds like the RGA is doing some good work. Keep it up.

[Aslan]

Ehhh..I guess I should say good work, but..

[PikSmeet]

Ehhh..I guess I should say good work, but..


...could be worse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35443423

[Modern Marx]

Collectivization isn't useful for creating a utopian labor force. Marx said to let the Proletariat own their own factories and farms, not to be forced onto them by bourgeois or the state. I'm not a utopian Marxist, but Maoism's fundamental tenet of collectivization I believe would not bring about such a utopia, if it is even possible.