NEWS ON CONGO 007: A CIA "Marxist's" callous reply [Posted: 06.09.98] On 29.08, there appeared on newsgroups 'soc.culture.africa' and 'soc.culture.zimbabwe' two postings vilely supporting the on- going aggression against the DR Congo instigated by US imperia- lim, while at the same time pretending to "advocate Marxism, Le- ninism and Mao Zedong Thought". Sender was "Peter Weispfenning" and the subject lines "Important interview with a rebell-leader in Congon (Shambuyi)" and (German group:) "MLPD - Congo". I replied to this on the same day by two postings in the "NEWS ON CONGO" series, 004 and 005, entitled 'CIA "Marxists" hail "rebels"'. They were sent to a number of newsgroups as well as mailed to some individual addresses including that of Michael Forschner, with whom I had earlier had some dealings in other contexts. On 02.09, there was the following reply to this - and a reply by me again to that of Mr. Forschner follows, after it: [QUOTE:] Date: 2 Sep 98 22:16:00 +0100 From: M.FORSCHNER@NADESHDA.gun.de (Michael Forschner) Subject: Re: NEWS ON CONGO 004: 1/2 CIA "Marxists" hail "rebels" To: rolf.martens@mailbox.swipnet.se [Obviously mailed to some other recipients too, but not sent to newsgroups, as far as I can see - my posting went to several such. - RM] Dear recipients of the News on Congo mailing! I'm quite astonished of the mailing of Rolf Martens on Congo. He seems to be a specialist on Congo matters within some days. As usual Rolf knows the truths completely. I just want to add some facts on his statements concerning MLPD. MLPD has organized a solidarity campaign for the revolutionary road of liberation in Congo in autumn last year. They collect more than 80000 Deutsch Marks and mad a broad information cam- paign in Germany. As far I know MLPD is also the only left wing party in Germany which organized grass root activities of in- dustrial workers and has a network in this field. I think it is worth while to approach the marxist-leninist view of MLPD without hatred. Anyone may read the MLPD documents and prove along the facts of reality. (http://www.mlpd.de) This surely collides with Rolf Martens present focus on Congo. But history is not a one man show. michael ----------------------------- M.Forschner@nadeshda.gun.de, Fon: +49 211 771610, Fax: +49 2173 17568 PGP key available ----------------------------- [END OF QUOTE] REPLY BY RM ON 06.09: Mr Forschner, In the above reply, you continue in the most callous way to sup- port that flagrant aggression and international plot against the Congolese people which has been instigated and effected above all by your No. 1 master in the world, US imperialism, and which still continues. You ought to be very much ashamed of yourself. Judging by past experience of "your" kind of people however, I find it likely that you'll not cease your criminal activities at all. These activities consist of trying to ingratiate your- self with ordinary people in Germany, in the Congo and else- where by hypocritically posing as a "Marxist" - incidentially thus also doing as much as you possibly can to try to discredit Marxism - and then *stab them squarely in the back*. There are not many worse kinds of people in the world than "yours" - the cold-blooded phony"Marxist" swindlers and lackeys of the really big-time reactionaries. Perhaps the openly-ap- pearing Nazis are even worse, but not much. "Your" kind is "the most intimate" enemies of the workers here in Europe. You're working, on behalf of the reactionaries, above all in the direction of trying to prevent any genuinely revolu- tionary movement from arising, by stifling all tendencies in that direction and/or leading them astray completely. There is a particular reason why you're so fanatically opposed to the liberation struggles of the oppressed peoples and na- tions as you show in your reply that you are, concerning the liberation struggle of the DR Congo and the present plot against it. I shall go into that somewhat further below. Concerning people who're saying they're "leftists", "Marxists" etc, etc, but are supporting some clearly very reactionary things - such as yourself - it's often difficult to tell whether the latter is due to ignorance, to some honest mistake, on their part, or whether they really are hypocritical crooks. In your case, Mr Forschner, things however are already quite clear in this respect. Your main "argument", for instance, "against" what I wrote seems to be your pointing at something which is quite true too - that I on my part don't have all that much knowledge of Africa in general and of the Congo in particu- lar. It seems quite likely that you know much more about these countries than I do. But by that "argument", you in reality are pointing all the more at *yourself*: Your *support of the flag- rant aggression* can *not* be excused by ignorance on your part. (I do have *some* more knowledge of Conlgolese affairs than what you're hinting at, with your "astonishment" at my being "a specialist" on Congo matters "within a few days". As can be seen in some postings by me from November 1996 on, which I've recently reproduced as part of a background material on the present aggression, I've strived to gather some information on that country since that time at least - in connection with the uprising then by the AFDL etc. But this is beside the point.) As is also apparent in your reply, you and I have had some dealings with each other before. We've had this, firstly in con- nection with the campaign, in the autumn of 1996, for supporting the founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, José Maria Sison, and his family against the threat then of ex- pulsion from the Netherlands. I on this occasion i.a. forwarded some quite good statements posted by you on behalf of some others. Your standpoint on this matter seemed to indicate that perhaps you were a sincere supporter of the struggles of the peoples of the third world - despite the fact, which was also known to me, that you were one of the propagandists of that arch-reactionary anti-nuclear-energy campaign in the world which was and is in- stigated above all by that power which is the prime mover behind the aggression against the DR Congo too - US imperialism. But after this above reply of yours I - and others - can tell with certainty that you *are* a crook and a lackey of US impe- rialism, and that your "support" for Sison, for instance, was really a bit of attempted camouflaging on your part. In this way, the struggle of the people of the DR Congo has had a certain postive "side effect" for the proletariat and the peoples here in Europe too: It's *helping expose* rather com- pletely *certain arch-enemies of theirs*, such as you, Mr Forschner. Why is this, what are the mechanisms behind this? It has to do with certain conditions in the world which are quite important. They for instance were mentioned in a certain article written 25 years ago which I shall quote here. A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WORKERS' MOVEMENT IN THE MORE HIGHLY-DEVELOPED, CAPITALIST/IMPERIALIST COUNTRIES AND THE STRUGGLES OF THE PEOPLES OF THE THIRD WORLD, SUCH AS THE PRESENT ONE BY THE PEOPLE OF THE DR CONGO In Germany, there earlier existed a *genuinely* Marxist-Leninist party too, in contrast to such hypocritical phonies as the "MLPD" supported by you - namely, the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT). Now most unfortunately this party since several years back has de- generated completely, has turned into a revisionist, bourgeois swindle just as was always the "MLPD" (which was "launched" by reaction, in the early 80s, precisely in order to combat that still existing revolutionary party in Germany then). But in 1973, its chairman, Klaus Sender, wrote quite correctly and importantly (btw, in his exile here in Malmoe, Sweden) i.a. the following: "For in the exploitation of the oppressed peoples and nations lies the root cause of the development and of the comparative strength of opportunism. The historical development entailed that the main aspect of the development of the proletarian re- volution, its centre, shifted to the oppressed peoples and na- tions. The self-dependent working-class movement and the genuine communist parties were suppressed by imperialism and revisio- nism. They came to be controlled by revisionism. The emergence of genuine movements of this type was prevented by means of assassination and terror, on the one hand, and repeated "buying-over" and corrupting of the upper stratum and part of the leaders of the working-class, on the other. ........... Labour aristocratism and opportunism, the corrupting of an upper stratum of the proletariat and the privileging of whole peoples as against others, are based precisely on the exploitation and the plundering of the third world. In the developed capitalist countries there reigns today a system which, brutally as well as by the most sophisticated means, is suppressing the proletarian revolution in each country. Proletarian revolutionary parties within those nations not only find themselves subjected to massive pressure, they also are constantly threatened by the danger of their succumbing to the influence of opportunism, to the bribing, to philistinification and bourgeoisification." (From the 1973 article, reproduced by me in translation from the German on 18.07.1997: "The International Situation, Europe and the Position of the Marxist-Leninist Parties".) "Your" party, Mr. Forschner, the "MLPD", always represented the *labour aristocracy* in Germany, that stratum which was and is bribed by part of those extraprofits which the bourgeoisie is extracting, or is hoping to extract, from countries such as the DR Congo. *That's* why you're so fanatical about trying to stab the struggle of the people of that country in the back. You ab- solutlely want those extraprofits from such countries to con- tinue to arrive to Europe and to North America. Btw, it can be added that the present so-called "Group NEUE EIN- HEIT", the totally degenerated remains of that formerly revolu- tionary party in Germany whose article I quoted from, has not said anything against the aggression against the Congo. In prac- tice, it's covering up that crime and a lot of others too. And yes, you're using fancy words such as "left-wing", "grass root activities" and even "Marxism-Leninism", in your case pure- ly as camouflage, of course. In the two earlier postings by the "MLPD", that phony"Marxist" group even - in itself, quite right- ly - mentioned the *social-imperialism* of present-day China and the former Soviet Union (from 1976/78 on, respectively, from the mid-1950s on). This was likewise using a Marxist analy- sis purely for *camouflage* purposes. Isn't this quite clear, Mr Forschner, mustn't everybody be able to make this out without there being the least doubt about the matter, when what you - the "MLPD" etc - are *concretely* doing is *in support of that aggression* which *all* the openly-reac- tionary mass media are supporting too, mendaciously saying, just as you are saying, that it's "not" an aggression but a "rebel- lion"? The "MLPD", you say, last autumn collected more than DM 80,000 for what you hypocritically call "the revolutionary road of li- beration in Congo" - in reality, their and your writings show, in favour of the plot and the aggression against DR Congo. The same thing concerning your (its) "broad information campaign" - in reality, a *disinformation* campaign - on the subject. One of the close allies of you and the "MLPD", Mr Forschner, the reactionary Internet medium "New Vision" of Uganda, recently spoke of a "tactical" and even "tactful" retreat by the so- called "rebels" from the harbour city of Matadi. (See "NEWS 006".) And one earlier at least semi-ally of yours, Nelson Man- dela of South Africa, has deemed it more "tactful" to make a turn too and now is supporting, at least in words, the armed combating of the aggression. You quite rightly wrote, in your reply, that "history is not a one man show". How does it feel to be left practically alone to- gether with your No. 1 master on this, US imperialism - except for the media mainly influenced by it, that other muppet Museve- ni of Uganda and some very few other ultras? You really *should* make an about-turn (too), Mr Forschner - better late than never, don't you think? But as I already said above, I don't think that you and your extremly small clique *will* "lay down your butcher knives and become Buddhas". The peoples will have to win their victories *against* your kind. - RM ________________________________________________________________ "NEWS ON CONGO" postings bring statements by the Congo National Association in Sweden and the DR Congo Committee in Sweden and also reproduce information and analysis from other sources. For French-readers we recommend the sites Agence Congolaise de Presse, ACP: (temporarily closed from 16.08.98 on) and Congonline (Belgium-based, brings info from various sources): . Contact addresses: Congo National Association Box 5343 SE - 102 45 Stockholm Sweden Tel: +46 - 8 - 471 96 26 (chairman) +46 - 8 - 84 57 18 (facility) Fax: +46 - 8 - 751 26 06 DR Congo Committee (Chairman: Bony Ndjov-a-Shamalo) Box 17513 SE - 200 10 Malmoe Sweden Tel: +46 - 40 - 12 48 32 E-mail: congocomse@hotmail.com