People, when they make mistakes, generally learn from them. That is, if they are genuinely interested in the making of revolution in our lifetime. There are many people within the “revolutionary” movement who continue making mistakes knowingly and willingly. Those who know good and goddamn well where correct ideas and political power comes from. A mass movement, a correctly guided party, and armed struggle, which is the highest form of struggle. We should get out of the habit of calling vested liberals and reformists “stupid”. Likewise, we should get out of the habit of calling machismo driven adventurist crackers like the transphobic Canadian “Continuators” who tried to split the PCR-RCP, stole Party funds, beat people up, and generally did things that would have gotten them shot and thrown in the river if they tried them where I live (Saint Louis, MO), and their water carriers in the USA and Europe, “stupid”. These aren’t stupid people, they’re opportunists. They fool and beguile politically naive people, petit-bourgeois white kids that grew up in good homes and got politically radicalized through the internet. Some end up merging fully into these erroneous lines and when they inevitably collapse, they are left spinning in a vortex of confusion and disillusionment. I witnessed this happen with many people when the NCP-LC collapsed. Many people dropped out of politics altogether because it was too stressful, there was too much double dealing. That’s not what we need.

Of course, that shit never really confuses or fools people who come from oppressed communities. Maybe until we get to know them better. If a white person comes up to me with a condescending tone or running his mouth spewing bullshit trying to tell me what to do for my people’s liberation and trying to act as if he’s some sort of paragon of revolutionary virtue, I’ll punch him in it. That’s how black people conduct business. If you’re right, you’re right. If you’re wrong, you’re wrong. That’s why the Maoist movement in Saint Louis doesn’t truck with RGA types anymore. It’s semi-anarchist adventurist nonsense that actually thought that it could attempt to determine the path of the revolutionary struggle in our city. White people with guns running around acting like their shit don’t stink doesn’t amuse me, I see them every day and we’ve seen them throughout our history. Redneck Revolt, for all their pretensions, is just another cracker cult that gets a lot of play because they’re white and decided to pick up guns and not immediately start killing black people. When they’re pressed, they’re just as reactionary as any other cracker in this country. We ruptured with RGA (who also really loves Redneck Revolt) months ago.

This was a correct decision, as now they’re backing up the “Continuator” idiots in Montreal, just as we predicted they would when the split first happened. Why? It’s common sense that shit seeks its own level. Red Guards Austin, the “Continuators”, Redneck Revolt (most chapters, anyway), the RCP, etc. all attract and unite with no real proletarian elements, despite their pretensions. First of all, nobody has time to read their garbage. Second of all, if they did read their garbage, they’d realize that it’s full of shit. Bob Avakian was booed off a stage in Harlem that he was sharing with Cornel West, and RCP “cadre” are run out of proletarian neighborhoods because they cannot unite with the masses of people there. Why? Because they don’t care what the masses want and for all their pretensions of the mass line, they don’t follow it. Redneck Revolt tolerates chapters that try to form united fronts with III%ers and hasn’t done shit to Dave Strano, an abuser. RGA apparently believes that the proletariat in urban neighborhoods spends massive amounts of time beating each other up and killing each other in duels to the death (probably due to being a majority white formation with no knowledge of what life is actually like in proletarian black neighborhoods, of course they’ll whine about me “speculating about the race of their cadre” but nobody’s a damn fool), and also for whatever reason thinks “Burn up Trap Houses” is a good line and will be united with by the masses of oppressed nationality communities. In Austin, they have no real mass links, mass ties, or mass support. In Saint Louis, on the other hand, we had already been developing these things and have developed them further since cutting them off and the cowards that followed them decided to cut us off months later. It also thinks that sleeping on the floor (or a bed of nails), psychological abuse, and straight edge lifestylism should be embraced by the masses and cadre in a prospective Maoist party despite the fact that no PPW currently is being waged in this country and if it were left up to RGA, never will, unless you consider maybe shooting a few police officers despite having no mass base or base areas established and promptly getting anyone white enough to follow you slaughtered, Symbionese Liberation Army Style to be a PPW that is capable of seizing state power. This is called a “cult”, not a political organization. I know Maoists are afraid of that word, but political cults exist and if you’ve got one or two people who for whatever reason are seemingly untouchable and can promote objectively reactionary lines and support people that do bad things in other countries (first with Tjen Folket, a small sect that has somehow managed to exist for longer than I’ve been alive without forming a party that had a member that sexually assaulted a woman in Norway and then told her to “tell your mommy, and then the police) and then these Continuator idiots, you’ve got a cult.

Don’t get me wrong. STL knows the power of the gun. It also knows mistakes when we see them, and where things are heading. How? Because we study and analyze things, we read between the lines, and we know that history repeats itself. Jim Jones claimed to be a Marxist, he’d lead the People’s Temple in singing the Internationale. That dream ended up dying in a jungle in Guyana. Don’t buy razzle-dazzle, don’t be impressed with cool aesthetics, guns and art. Those are cool, but over-reliance on them shows a lack of political substance and ability to develop. Develop your politics, learn from mistakes.