Communist Study Corner #8
Mao Tse-Tung on the Iraqi Communist Party and the Revisionist nature of the CP of Algeria
With the death of beloved President Hussein this past week and the tears of millions roaring like lions and IED roadside bombs, I thought it might be helpful to just sort of show a historical quote about how "revolutionary" the most of the Arab CPs, including the Iraqi CP really are or were. This is particularly interesting since a number of westernized philo-judaic liberal-"leftists" are cheering the death of our beloved leader because of his supposed "represison" of leftists, and these leftists being so "revolutionary".
Also, this footnote on the CP of Algeria shows you why so many Arabs have looked for revolutionary options that exist outside of the dogmatic Marxist-Leninist camp. This piece does not show, but it must be added, that these Arab CPs largely recognized the Zionist entity out of blind devotion to Moscow and that the Arab people don't really give a damn about western leftists since they insist that they recognize a settler colonialist project on their soil. Some leftist factions have emerged that do not take the flunkeyist position of CPs and I hope this generalization is not used to attack them blindly, also.
This is something for those Western Zionist-dominated enemy's of freedom who pretend to be "Marxist-Leninist-Maoists", and hence cannot support the "impure" Iraqi resistance to "enjoy" as a New Year's present for their service to the cause (of imperialism).
Oh Saddam, let us always honor you for your lifetime of service to the people in struggle!
--- John Paul Cupp
Excerpt from
June 18, 1964
[SOURCE: Long Live Mao Tse-tung Thought, a Red Guard Publication.]
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_22.htm
The chairman: The question of establishing a communist party must rest on whether there are any industrial workers. I see that there are industries in Africa. Many of the countries have industries, some have been established by the imperialists and some have been established by the Africans themselves; there are mines, railroads, highways, and other industries. Although there is no communist party at present, there will be one of these days. It isn’t that there is no communist party at present time, because there are communist parties in Algeria, Morocco, and South Africa. The Communist Party of Algeria is not a revolutionary party, it is a revisionist party. Revisionist parties, such as the party in Algeria, are not like a national liberation front which conducts a war for national liberation; the communist party in Algeria is against a war for liberation, it follows the dictates of the French communist party. The communist party in Algeria is against us, it opposes China; the Algerian Government and the Algerian National Liberation Front cooperate with us. I do not know why they oppose us. They might be opposing us for some reason that we don’t understand.
There is still another example. The Iraqi communist party in Asia also opposes China. It only pays attention to opposing the Communist Party of China and does not pay any attention to the dangers of coups which it faces. Even during the past year a coup took place and Kassem was executed and the secretary general of the party was also killed. Do you know of this incident?
Ali: I know about it. I read about it in the newspapers.
The chairman: Many in the communist party were killed, many of the revisionists were killed, and many progressive persons were killed. You tell me, why does the communist party of Iraq oppose us?
Ali: They follow the conductor’s baton.
The chairman: Follow the conductor’s baton and carry on peaceful transition.