Happy Birthday, Comrade Mao… and happy belated birthday to Comrade Lin Biao!

All apologies to Comrade Lin Biao, we Maoist-Third Worldists (especially IJC) are still updating our celebrated holidays. Forget the Amerikkkan's "Khri$tmass". The revolutionary leadership of Stalin, Mao, and Lin the real gift to the world. This is because the policies that they upheld led to doubling the life expectancies of their respective populations!

Stalin, Mao, and Lin Biao born in December

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Three great revolutionaries were born in December.

Stalin was born on December 21st, 1887. Stalin is remembered for his great accomplishment of leading the Soviet Union through socialist construction. He is also remembered for making the hard decisions that led to the defeat of the Nazis. Had it not been for Stalin’s leadership, the Nazi tanks would have rolled to the Pacific Ocean.

The exploited and oppressed people today look to the Soviet Union in its glory days as a model of economic development and modernization that did not rely, as the imperialists did, on the plunder and exploitation of other countries.  At the onset of the Soviet revolution, their country was one of the most backward in Europe. It was through the leadership of Lenin, but especially Stalin, that by the end of World War 2, the Soviet Union was able to challenge the Western imperialists on a global scale.

Mao was born on December 26th, 1893. Mao described the oppression of the Chinese people as follows:

“Today, two big mountains lie like a dead weight on the Chinese people. One is imperialism, the other is feudalism. The Chinese Communist Party has long made up its mind to dig them up. We must persevere and work unceasingly, and we, too, will touch God’s heart. Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people. If they stand up and dig together with us, why can’t these two mountains be cleared away?”

It was under Mao’s leadership that a quarter of the world’s population stood up, threw off the chains of imperialism, feudalism and comprador capitalism, and sought to create a world without oppression. A quarter of the world’s females were liberated from some of the worst forms of patriarchal oppression. A quarter of humanity sought to radically transform the world, to end oppression once and for all, to embark on the road to communism. It was Mao who initiated the Cultural Revolution to continue the forward motion of the revolution. Although Mao made errors, we recognize that Mao Zedong was, in many respects, the greatest revolutionary leader of all time.

Lin Biao was born on December 5th, 1907. Lin Biao is known as the greatest of China’s revolutionary marshals. Lin Biao was a key military and political leader.

Lin Biao was a strong proponent of egalitarianism in all spheres of life. It was under Lin Biao’s leadership that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army abolished outward sign of rank. The egalitarianism of the People’s Liberation Army became a model for all of society during the Cultural Revolution. Lin Biao and Chen Boda, before they fell, were big proponents of increasing collectivization of the economy during the Cultural Revolution. It was Lin Biao who first published Quotations by Chairman Mao (“the little red book”), in order to put Maoism in a more accessible form for China’s masses. It was first published for the People’s Liberation Army, later it was utilized by all of Chinese society for making revolution. Many of Lin Biao’s reforms of the People’s Liberation Army that began in 1959 were adopted by the Cultural Revolutionaries and applied to all of society. For example, Lin Biao was the first to raise the slogan “Put politics in command!,” a slogan that was later adopted by the Cultural Revolution.

Lin Biao was the first to declare that Mao’s contributions constituted a new, higher stage of Marxism. Lin Biao, along with Chen Boda, did the most to promote Maoism as a system and to raise up Maoism as Maoism.

Perhaps Lin Biao’s greatest contribution is his characterization of the world revolution as a global people’s war where the oppressed and exploited peoples of the global countryside are set against the oppressor and exploiter populations of the global city. Lin Biao’s outlook correctly implies that the peoples of the First World are not friends of the world revolution. From a Marxist point of view, the peoples of the First World are to be written off in the main. Thus Lin Biao’s work foreshadows the global class analysis and other breakthroughs of Maoism-Third Worldism.

Let’s remember the contributions of these and all great revolutionaries this month.

Happy Birthday, Comrade Stalin!

Red Salute to you, Joseph Dzhugashvili, a.k.a. Comrade Stalin on your 130th birthday!  IJC will depart from our usual materialist mode of opposing personality cults for only for a yearly occasion such as this.  The hearts of the peoples of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the John Browns in the First World, and the exploited and oppressed peoples of the Third World are filled with communist festive cheer for the leader of the victorious worldwide anti-fascist movement.  You literally gave life to millions of people that would have died of preventable disease, starvation, illiteracy, patriarchy, exploitation, and being outright enslaved or slaughtered by the imperialist Axis hordes.

And hey Amerikkka, as you try to continue to twist the meaning of justice in the world and in history, we of the Internationalist Jacobin Club say: FUCK YOUR SANTA CLAUS.  Your $atan Claws is none other than the united $nakes, and it doesn’t have any elves making the toys, but exploited nation labor.  Hungry kids from the Third World making toys for spoiled brats in the First World.  Any system that continues to divide up the children of the world in such a way is a system worthy of being utterly destroyed.  Your $atan Claws gives the kids misery and death every Chri$tmass season.  While he lived, Josef Stalin gave the children all over Eurasia a fighting chance to grow up healthy, to be fully educated, and to actually lead society towards a peaceful communist future.  The amerikkkans have it all backwards as to who the good guys are, but the kids in the Third World will grow up to correct the situation with Global People’s War and the JDPEN.

Here, we reprint an excerpt from a Monkey Smashes Heaven article on Comrade Stalin:

Stalin’s legacy

It was under Stalin’s leadership that some of the greatest humanitarian victories of the last century were won. The Soviet Union was the first. Under Stalin’s leadership, the Soviet countries went from the backwater of Europe to surpassing it in many ways, becoming a modern superpower able to challenge imperialism on a worldwide scale.

Quality of life increased for the Soviet peoples under Stalin. Despite the austerity forced on the Soviet peoples by Stalin’s industrialization program and by World War 2, life generally improved. Public education and health care expanded under Stalin’s regime. Life expectancy doubled under the Stalin regime. (7) Life expectancy under Stalin was greater than it has been in recent times in Russia despite all of the technological advances in medicine. (8) It was under Stalin’s leadership that the majority of the population gained access to full rights as proletarian citizens. It was under his leadership that women, non-Russians, declassed and ex-peasants gained full access to work in the modern Soviet economy. This major social shift not only represented higher pay for the majority, but it also represented more autonomy in the private realm and more political power for the masses. Under Stalin greater numbers gained a voice in the Soviet system. (9)

Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was a beacon of hope to the world’s people. Harry Haywood, a Black communist leader, recounts an encounter with racism in the Soviet Union. In Stalin’s Soviet Union, racism was treated very differently than in was in the United States, which still had legally enforced White supremacy in the form of Jim Crow laws:

“In the Soviet Union, remnants of national and racial prejudice from the old society were attacked by education and law. It was a crime to give or receive direct or indirect privileges, or to exercise discrimination because of race or nationality. Any manifestation of racial or national superiority was punishable by law and was regarded as a serious political offense, a social crime.

During my entire stay in the Soviet Union, I encountered only one incident of racial hostility. It was on a Moscow streetcar. Several of us Black students had boarded the car on our way to spend an evening with out friend MacCloud. It was after rush hour and the car was only about half filled with Russian passengers. As usual, we were subjects of friendly curiosity. At one stop, a drunken Russian staggered aboard. Seeing us, he muttered (but loud enough for the whole car to hear) something about ‘Black devils in our country.’

A group of outraged Russian passengers thereupon seized him and ordered the motorman to stop the car. It was a citizen’s arrest, the first I had ever witnessed. ‘How dare you, you scum, insult people who are guests in our country!’…

‘No, citizens,’ said a young man (who had done most of the talking), ‘drunk or not, we don’t allow this sort of thing in our country…’” (10)

In addition to fighting racism and national oppression in the Soviet Union, Stalin used his influenced to combat White chauvinism within North America. It was Stalin who forced the Communist Party USA to embrace the Black Belt thesis, the thesis that the states of the Southeast U.S. constitute a separate, Black national homeland. Thus, Stalin was one of the first Black nationalists. Stalin’s theory is still upheld by some Black national liberation forces today.

The leadership in the Stalin era faced a dilemma. Stalin famously said that the Soviet peoples must industrialize or face annihilation. Stalin’s austerity programs, breakneck industrialization and collectivization, and modernization programs may have been hard to bear, but they were necessary. Stalin’s prediction proved true in 1941 when Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. The Nazi invasion cost the lives of 27 million Soviet people. Had Stalin not wielded a heavy hand, then many more lives would have been lost and Hitler’s tanks would have rolled all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Because of Stalin’s policies, the Soviet Union had the industrial base to defeat the Nazi onslaught. Stalin was the most important leader in saving the world from fascism in World War 2.

At every turn, the capitalists try to misrepresent the true record of socialism. There is a long history of distortion and fraud perpetuated by the capitalists. (11) The verdict of this trial is part of a long history of lies. Communists do not buy into the sensational lies and distortions of the capitalists. Communists also do not dogmatically defend every error or excess that may have occurred. Rather, communists  take a balanced and critical view of our own history. Communists defend what is correct and abandon what is not. This is the scientific approach.

All of his life Stalin fought for socialism. In his earlier days as a revolutionary, he put himself in the line of fire as a guerrilla, robbing banks in order to fund the revolution. Later, he waged struggle against all kinds of revisionism, especially Trotskyism. Stalin led the Soviet Union through very difficult times. The times were hard and called for tough measures. Even in this context, Stalin was able to carry out significant social revolution. As Mao pointed out, Stalin made significant errors, but they are our errors. They are errors that communists take responsibility for. His errors are part of the inevitable trial and error, the zigzag path, of socialist construction.

Sources

7.  http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/faq/lifeexpectussr2.html
8.  http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/faq/lifeexpectussr.html
9.  http://monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com/2005/06/13/review-women-at-the-gates/
10.  Harry Haywood. Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist. Liberator Press. Chicago, Il.:USA. pp. 170-171
11.  http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/vv.html

El Alba Roja: El Nuevo Plan de San Diego

Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magon, Mexican revolutionaries and the inspiration of the original "Plan(s) of San Diego"

Red Dawn: The New Plan of San Diego is the working title of IJC’s Maoist-Third Worldist programme for the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of the Exploited Nations (JDPEN) over u.$. imperialism, to be released in the coming weeks.  We will attempt to synthesize the original Plan(s) of San Diego (1915-1916) with the experience  of the Soviet occupation of Germany after World War II.  Imagine what could have been if Mexico had had the benefit of a Villa/Zapata led socialist state backing (assuming they were leaning proletarian) to the original Plan of San Diego.  Imagine what could have been if the Soviet Union kept on throwing its resources towards the exploited nations (via its own “Plan of San Diego” in Europe) and stopped trying to placate the former Nazi German labor aristocracy (and Europeans/Amerikans in general) in the post-Stalin era .   Imagine what could have been… and imagine what will be!

Therefore, let us think about what is to be done now!

Our Love for the Planet and the People in it is Why We Hate Amerikkka!

The Internationalist Jacobin Club is here, and its task as an independent cell is to develop a programme for the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of the Exploited Nations (JDPEN) over the united $nakes.  This blog will feature global news and analysis towards this effort.  The Internationalist Jacobin Club upholds Maoism-Third Worldism (see “About IJC“).  Readers (supporters, those on the fence, and critics) are encouraged to comment using anonymous reasoning while avoiding logical fallacies and pig information.

Chen Boda’s Famous Quote of Lenin on Proletarian Jacobinism (many thanks to MSH):

“The Jacobins of contemporary Social-Democracy — the Bolsheviks, the Vperyodovtsi, Syezdovtsi, Proletartsi, or whatever we may call them — wish by their slogans to raise the revolutionary and republican petty bourgeoisie, and especially the peasantry, to the level of the consistent democratic centralism of the proletariat, which fully retains its individuality as a class. They want the people, i.e. the proletariat and the peasantry, to settle accounts with the monarchy and the aristocracy in the ‘plebeian way,’ ruthlessly destroying the enemies of liberty, crushing their resistance by force, making no concessions whatever to the accursed heritage of serfdom, of Asiatic barbarism and human degradation.”

Too bad for the labor aristoracy… we will resolutely smash their privileges to dust.  And into the dustbin of history with them!

Soviet Victory Day

Tonight, 64 years ago this evening, the Red Flag was hoisted over the Reichstag, signifying the first victorious proletarian invasion of imperialism.

The Internationalist Jacobin Club salutes the enormous sacrifices made by the Soviet People and the United Front against Fascism for the world’s oppressed.  We at IJC have alot to live up to in this example.

Our first official heralding statement is hours away…

Hello First World! Here comes the Third World!

The Internationalist Jacobin Club, a group of Maoist-Third Worldist “John Browns“, are coming to Amerika on May 9th (Soviet Victory Day over Nazi Germany).