RCPUSA from Post Maoism to Pro Imperialism : Statement by Democracy and Class Struggle

Democracy and Class Struggle on Mao's birthday pointed out that the RCPUSA had rejected Maoism for the Post Maoism of Avakian Thought.

We have also pointed out the bourgeois cosmopolitan outlook of the RCPUSA on the national question, a baggage which Kasama has also inherited.

This latest statement on North Korea takes the RCPUSA from Post Maoism to Pro Imperialism and is a very serious development.

Korea has been engaged in a struggle for National Liberation throughout most of the 20th century and from 1945 the Korean people have fought against the US intervention on the Korean peninsula which sought to undermine the Korean National Liberation Struggle for Unification.

Koreans had to deal with the reality of nuclear weapons for decades , many thousands of Koreans were used as slave labour by the Japanese in World War II and many of these were forced labour workers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb.

In the U.S. war in Korea, U.S. General MacArthur wanted to drop 50-70 atomic bombs along the China-Korea border to create a belt of land people cannot live on or cross.

Later in the Pueblo incident in 1968, when the DPRK captured a U.S. spy ship in North Korean waters, President Johnson sent aircraft carriers with nuclear weapons to Korea. 

And in 1969 when the U.S. spy plane was shot down over North Korean territory, the U.S. again threatened North Korea with a nuclear attack.

The “Team Spirit” U.S.-south Korea war exercises from the 1970s to the 1990s practiced with using nuclear bombs.

The U.S. has over 1000 nuclear weapons in South Korea – nuclear artillery, nuclear missiles, nuclear bombs.

The North Koreans are dismissed by the RCPUSA has mere "nationalists"and only world socialist revolution can save mankind( heard that crap before somewhere). 

Eveybody is embedded in a nation and rootless cosmopolitanism may appeal to bourgeois anarchists but has nothing in common with socialism or the latest bourgeois socialism "citizen of the world" philosophy of the Bob Avakian of the RCPUSA.

The National Liberation struggle of the Korean people against US Imperialism must be supported, the nature of the North Korean regime and its military first policy is a secondary question to be resolved by the Korean people alone when they achieve unification.

The artful attempt of the RCPUSA to make this the principal question shows how far its ideological regression has proceeded, its subtle use of presenting competing oppressive agenda's US and North Korean is beneath contempt in this life and death anti imperialist struggle.

The social character of North Korea is not the principal question, but its anti imperialist struggle for national independence and social liberation is the principal question for revolutionaries.

Concerning North Korea's Economic development North Korea has rejected the Trans Pacific Partnership with its anti State Enterprise free market philosophy and to its shame Vietnam has signed up to the free market philosophy of this US Imperialist group.

The RCPUSA obviously dislikes socialist emulation for national honour in Korean enterprises like the Proudhonist Bourgeois Socialists they are. 

One cannot but detect a Great Nation Chauvinism affecting the Left on the question of Korea and a readiness to uncritically accept insults about this small nation has facts

Whatever the mistakes and weaknesses of the Korean peoples struggle they are eagles in the struggle for independence and anti  imperialist national liberation.

The RCPUSA is but an irritating fly.