Lessons from the Enemy's Playbook-Ward Churchill

When Hitler seized power he gamed it out years, even decades in advance. The Nazis planned in great detail their entire game and considered all possibilities, all scenarios. We lose the war? No problem, south america. We get nukes first? Cool, declare war on the U.S.A. We get a minority in the Reichstag? Okay, marginalize the left, ally with the center, then stab the center in the back. "He pulls a knife? You pull a gun. He put's one of yours in the hospital? You put one of his in the morgue." That's what a succesful power struggle looks like.

The nazis in the 1920s and 1930s had gamed out, literally, all the alternative sequences by 1930 at the latest, in some cases as early as 1923. There was no losing outcome, just worst and best case scenarios. That's what a vanguard party exercising democratic centralism can do, it can exercise discipline and lead to unite a determined minority of dissidents to seize state power.

In 1933, when the fascists seized state power they had no army, none to speak of.

How did the fascists move from being out of state power, literally in prison to state power in just 10 years?

Through power struggles.

People look at the struggle over Ward Churchill; Effete academic individuals, the sort of people who have never had a power struggle in their lives, who are even offended or disgusted by the idea of fighting tooth and nail over a scrap of bloody meat because they are starving -- they never starved. That's why they are so effete that the nazis spit on them and get away with it.
Those bourgeois liberals are oh-so-pised off that their bourgeois liberal academic freedoms are going down the toilet. Good Liberals with brains and no balls know that their class interests require the sort of exercises in futility that the bourgeois liberal academic establishment requires, the illusion of intellectual exchange, rational debate and open mindedness.

In that regard the lumpen have left the intellos far behind. The lumpen like Hitler thinks the academy is bullshit.

So why bother struggling over Ward Churchill? After all Ward's big and can take care of himself.

Let's go back to bourgeois liberal germany, before the fascists took power. The fascists were consciously modelling the entire act of seizing power, every aspect and alternative with a single minded obsessive determination. They looked at each and every battle as a step in the right direction, as training for Der Tag -- the day -- the day when they would seize state power, rearm, and launch a world war.

Maoists should steal a play from the enemy's book on this one. Ward Churchill isn't about Ward Churchill. Ward Churchill is about The Next Battle.

MIM will be fighting a series of battles to seize power over the next decade or two. Each bttle we fight will be to prepare for the *Next* Battle. Winining here and now on the ground with Ward Churchill will train us to win the next battle which will be harder for higher stakes, a battle we could not win today with our limited resources and experiences. Don't get discouraged - look at those laughable democrats with their near limitless resources, their training heuristic is fucked, they learn no lessons. Hell, they don't even know there are lessons to learn let alone how to learn them. Ward Churchill is to teach us -- and our enemies -- lessons.

Is the next battle going to be the war over Iran? Probably. MIM has a few past battles under her belt already, Sison, for example Nepal, Gatekeeper. Each of the struggles MIM undertakes should be seen as step toward seizing state power.

This year the state tried to smash MIM. The state failed. If Maoism were never going to happen in the U.S. it would have died between 2005-2007. So now it is a question of rationally organizing the remaining power struggles to seize state power as quickly as possible. What part of "revolution is a reality" didn't you get?

Hitler's plan for world domination grew out of a repeated series of power struggles. In 1921 there was no way anyone would imagine a bunch of racist hooligans with kooky prescientific mythology as their guiding star would seize state power in the most scientifically advanced imperialist country. Those bastards seized power by looking at each power struggle as vital and as a step toward the ultimate goal. So should we.

1) Conquer Czechoslovakia to seize weapons, especially tanks.
2) Conquer France to seize aircraft, ships and factories.
3) Conquer Russia to seize grain and oil.
4) Defeat U.S. in global war.

Before you bother telling me part 4 failed ask yourself about George Bushes grandfather Prescott, whose side Prescott was on, then ask yourself about A.H.-nuld, admittted nazi sympathizer with a nazi family.

Moreover, even if part 4 failed the way we are told the enemy there did not just roll over and play dead, give up and walk off the field. They dispersed their resources, went underground and struggled for a full four decades to the point where their grandchildren succeeded at seizing state power. This is what a multigenerational power struggle looks like.

The proletariat get their ass kicked in battle after battle yet continue struggling because they have no choice. That is the nature of bourgeois power, it needs a proletariat to exploit, it cannot have it's cushy lifestyle without the sweatshops and slaves in the Third World.

And all those oh-so-nicey-nice first world antifascist liberals? Parasites, dependant on that sweatshop migrant labor. Liberals should get a spine and ditch the democrats who "accidentally" lead them from losing battle to losing battle. The democrats have consistently lost battle after battle since Carter. That's no accident. After a few power struggles our liberals will ditch their stupid liberalism that leads nowhere and learn to fight dirty with a will to power.

Get a spine. Join the Maoists. Win the battle for Ward Churchill.