Friday, November 30, 2007

BREAKING DOWN THE FOUR OLDS, SETTING UP THE FOUR NEWS



(Above photograph taken at the RPP Central People's Commune)

It cannot be stressed enough to all comrades that we, as communists, stand against individualism and private property. Why not phrase this as "bourgeois individualism" or "bourgeois private property"? That is because there is no "proletarian individualism" to counter bourgeois individualism - this is because the proletariat shuns individualism and embraces collectivism. How does humanity go forward toward communism? In order to acheive this, we have to do just as the Red Guards of China under Chairman Comrade Mao Zedong did and smash the four olds: Old Custom, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. Smash means just that: smash, eliminate. As self-critical Maoists, we have to struggle to smash all bourgeois elements inside us. As critical Maoists, we have to struggle to smash any bourgeois elements that arise in the party. If there is to be a real vanguard built, there must be practical steps taken and serious application of Leninist and Maoist organizational principles executed in the flesh. We have to smash the old and build the new.


We must have a physical infrastructure. We must have a practical organizational life that guards against bourgeois tendencies, because only with genuine communists can we struggle toward genuine communism. This applies to anti-imperialism as well. What makes the most pointed attack against imperialism? The dregs of self-satisfied bourgeois apologism in their loose schizo-capitalist sense of being "anti" this or that, or the snarling attack of the class-conscious Maoist inflamed with intense class hatred against the Dictatorship of the Bourgeois? Existing in the belly of hegemonic U.S. imperialism we have to be hateful, we have to be clandestine, we have to be organized and we have to be willing to live under democratic centralism on the party and cell level. All members of the RPP know that all members can live at party headquarters and build the emerging Central People's Commune under democratic centralism, making Marxism-Leninism-Maoism effectively the epicentre of their lives to which they are totally dedicated. Non-members are invited to contact the RPP and inquire as to visiting, prospective residence and Maoist study, criticism, self-criticism and thought reform at the Central People's Commune. We as Maoists must struggle to build up Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in reality and not simply on the cerebral level.

On a direct level we need to campaign for "Breaking down the four olds, setting up the four news." As dialectical materialists we are not sentimentalists, we are not subjective individualists, we are not conservatives for the old... Instead, we realize the trajectory of life on planet earth as it unfolds according to dialectical materialist principles. We seperate on two-line struggle with no quarter the demarcation between hegemonic imperialism and the oppressed, between bourgeois and proletarian, between revolutionary and counter-revolutionary. If communism is to be struggled for then we must be willing to commit our entire lives to communism and criticize anything that is kept "outside" of communism, for that too must be absorbed and assimilated into our communist struggle if we all are to become part and parcel of a disciplined machine to smash the bourgeoisie for eternity.

Central Committee
Rural People's Party
(Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)