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|  Theory Journal of the Maoist Internationalist Movement  |
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[published sometime between 2/86 and 1/87]

WORLD WAR III IS ON ALREADY!

BOMBING OF LIBYA: AN AGGRESSIVE ACT OF AN ONGOING WORLD WAR
MIM unequivocally condemns the U.S. bombing of Libya.  Polls 
seem to show that only 23% of the U.S. public opposed this 
nauseating act of militarism and chauvinism.  This makes it 
especially important that people who read MIM NOTES and MIM 
THEORY not cave in to superficial public opinion or this 
escalation of the current WWIII.
And it is important to note that the bombing of Libya is not 
a preparation for WWIII.  It is an act of WWIII.  No other 
organization that MIM knows of officially analyzes the 
current international situation as one of WWIII already in 
progress.
This distinction is not sheerly academic.  There are a number 
of implications that flow from this theoretical insight 
forged through MIM's analysis of the international situation.
First, there is no point in waiting for nuclear holocaust to 
seize  opportunities to make revolution.  With every 
desperate act perpetrated  by the imperialists in South 
Africa, Central America or the Middle East, opportunities for 
revolution open up, as the case of Peru so clearly 
demonstrates.
Secondly, it is necessary to grasp the current world war to 
make a  break with American or European-centered thinking.  
By this thinking, imperialism does not bring about world war 
unless it finally involves "our boys" or, in contemporary 
times, "our missiles."  War does not really count as World 
War until large numbers of white people die according to most 
current "Leninist" thinking.  MIM repudiates this 
simultaneously chauvinist and racist thinking.
Thirdly, the battles going on around the world are connected 
and not isolated events or mistakes.  Put together the events 
in the world constitute world war.  Where there is 
imperialism there are wars between imperialists and against 
subjugated peoples.  Today, the U.S. bloc is making war 
against the Soviet bloc, mostly through proxy. This  is war 
between imperialist camps.  Then there is the kind of war 
like the U.S./Israeli invasion of Lebanon that killed over 
20,000 Lebanese and Palestinians.  That is war of the 
imperialists against oppressed peoples--namely the 
Palestinians.  The U.S. backed apartheid regime averages five 
police murders a day.  That is war against the Azanian people 
of South Africa.   The Soviet Union just increased its 
military occupation forces in Eritrea by several thousand.  
That is an act of war.  In Central America, the United 
States' puppet regime in El Salvador bombs its own people and 
the contras terrorize the Nicaraguan people.  That is war.  
The list goes on and on.  By number of deaths or area of the 
world covered, the current World War is already more 
significant than the first world war and is catching up with 
the second one.  More importantly, it has already started and 
could end up in holocaust.
Fourthly, where there is imperialism there is world war.  War 
is not just acts of violence coordinated by military 
officers.  It is the institutional control of Third World 
peoples and the proletariat of the  imperialist countries 
that means starvation, inadequate health care and  living 
conditions and political and military control.  This 
institutional violence is a part of the objective situation 
that allows for the creation of class consciousness by the 
vanguard party.
Finally, the creation of public opinion is not exactly the 
same thing as revolutionary strategy.  The general political 
line that MIM promotes should not be one of conjuncturalism.  
Vulgar forms of pseudo-Leninism focus public opinion on the 
possibilities for making revolution in the distant future 
given near-holocaust conditions and a general advancement of 
objective conditions which make the U.S. and other parts of 
the world "ripe" for revolution.
It is extremely important on a strategic level to understand 
that the final seizure of political power in a revolution can 
not take place  at any time that revolutionaries wish.  There 
must be a certain intersection of historical events, a 
simultaneous occurrence of several conditions--for revolution  
to happen.  This occasion is known as a revolutionary 
historical conjuncture.
However, this strategic understanding is not the same thing 
as a political line for revolution.  Specifically, 
conjuncturalismas applied as a political line is a Trotskyist 
deviation, which results in  the overlooking of the war and 
conditions of revolution that already exist in the world 
today, particularly in the Third World. 
conjuncturalismdiverts the this worldly Marxist to the next 
world and prevents an analysis of how to move forward in the 
present.
Most of the currents in genuine Leninism in Europe and the 
United States are both chauvinist and racist in their 
analysis of world war. Worse, conjuncturalismas applied by 
signatories of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, 
such as the Revolutionary Communist Party (USA) will result 
in blown opportunities to create public opinion. Unless 
public opinion is created now that connects war all across 
the world to imperialism and inter-imperialist rivalry, the 
subjective conditions for revolution will not exist at the 
time when a revolutionary opportunity does open up in the 
imperialist countries.