Maoist Internationalist Movement

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The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) describes itself as a "collection of existing or emerging Maoist internationalist parties in the English-speaking imperialist countries and their English-speaking internal semi-colonies, as well as the existing or emerging Maoist Internationalist parties in Belgium, France and Quebec and the existing or emerging Spanish-speaking Maoist Internationalist parties of Aztlan, Puerto Rico and other territories of the U.$. Empire" (http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/wim/mimhist.html). By its own account, MIM is a small group of Maoist revolutionaries. MIM was founded in October 1983. On its Web site, MIM claims it did not originate in SDS (http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/links/redencyclopedia.html). However, it says it has roots in RADACADS, and that splinters from the SDS attended RADACADS events. Originally known as the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), MIM changed its name in 1984 after the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) took the name "RIM" for its international mutual aid society according to MIM. MIM (before it was called MIM) and the RCP broke over questions relating to El Salvador and the role of the FMLN, and other questions. MIM places emphasis on struggling against revisionism and Trotskyism, which MIM believes are exacerbated by the "parasitic" conditions in the United States and other imperialist countries. MIM believes that RCP is "crypto-Trotskyist." MIM has disinguished itself from the RCP by "actively oppos[ing] discrimination against gays since before its foundation" (http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/gender/demographics2004.html). MIM opposes homophobia because, among other things, the FBI took advantage of homophobia to try to wreck the Black Panther Party.