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TheMaoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) was a clandestine revolutionary communist organization based primarily in theUnited States. MIM claimed to adhere to a radical ideology called "MIM Thought". MIM listed a solePO box inAnn Arbor, Michigan as its mailing address. Contrary to most Maoist groups in the West, which came from a firmlyanti-revisionist pedigree out of the traditional Communist Parties, the MIM was a product of elements of the AmericanNew Left student movement who formed theNew Communist movement.
MIM was founded as theRevolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) in 1983 from a group called RADACADS (for "RADical ACADemics") at Harvard University.[1][2] It is not to be confused with theRevolutionary Internationalist Movement that was founded the following year in France by Maoist parties around the world, the most notable of which areShining Path andBob Avakian'sRCPUSA.
All of MIM's publications were anonymously written; authors do not sign their names to articles. Instead, writers used the moniker MC[X] (MIM ComradeX), whereX is a number. This was reputedly to prevent their members and supporters from being known by the state and also to keep the focus on theoretical line and arguments rather than people and personal relationships.
MIM published a biweekly newspaper,MIM Notes, and had an occasional Spanish-language publication,Notas Rojas. MIM also published a theory journal titledMIM Theory, of which 14 were released up until 2001. MIM also publishedMaoist Sojourner, 'a monthly publication by and for Third World Maoist exiles,' which according to the MIM website, "died as a publication thanks in part to internal sabotage and quitters."[3]
A post on the MIM website titled "Where we are at theoretically at the end", dated February 15, 2008, appears to announce the end of MIM.[4] The post states that there will be no further posts on the MIM website, and announces a postmortem website,MIM Lite.[5] According to the 2/15/2008 post on the MIM website, "There will be no new content here, no more stepping on toes and no defense of political gains if any. 'MIM Lite' will take up the few leftover tasks." While it is not said explicitly that MIM no longer exists as an organization, this is strongly implied and there appears to be no new activity subsequent to the 2/15/2008 post. In May 2008 it was announced[6] that MIM Lite would be retired. In August a new blog was announced,[7] calledMIM Defense,[8] with the stated purpose to "defend the leaders of ex-MIM, the Maoist Internationalist Movement, people who continue on the course of the anti-war and anti-imperialist struggles."[9]Statement from Henry Park about going aboveground[permanent dead link] Henry Park is stated to be the author of MIM Down[10] and MIM Defense.[11]
In January 2009, MIM'sweb host,The ETEXT Archives, ceased operations.[12] The content formerly hosted byThe ETEXT Archives, including MIM, is still available at theMaoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons,[13] and via theInternet Archive.[14] MIM continues to publish articles atWordpress.com.[15] Henry Park attempted to recover the original feel of the etext website by relocating MIM Down from WordPress to mimdown.org.[16]
MIM founder Henry Park died on May 17, 2011.[17]
The Maoist International Ministry of Prisons (MIM-Prisons) has continued to organize and has maintained its own website since the collapse of the Maoist Internationalist Party-America.[18] In early 2016 an organization referring to itself as MIM-Orchid appeared onGitHub, publishing Proletarian Internationalist Notes (PINotes), which offers news, reviews and analysis from a Maoist global perspective.[19]
The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (RAIM) and its website anti-imperialism.org cites the Maoist Internationalist Movement as an influence.[20] RAIM evolved from the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Information Network, and was originally intended to be the imperialist country mass organization of the Leading Light Communist Organization (LLCO) before these two organizations split.[21] LLCO does not consider itself to be a Maoist organization, claiming to uphold a post-Maoist ideology called Leading Light Communism, explicitly distinguishing themselves from MIM Theory.[22]
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