[Marxism] A Maoist critique of Bob Avakian

[Ethan Young]

Re: Avakian and Trotsky...

After Mao's death, the RCP went through a major [60-40%] split over whether to 
continue to support the Chinese CP under the emerging Deng Xiaoping leadership, or 
denounce them as anti-Mao. [The Spartacist League gloated in a headline, "The 
Maoists united will never be repeated."]

The majority, led by Avakian, defended the Gang of Four - the surviving 
beneficiaries of the leadership upheaval during the Cultural Revolution, targeted 
as the architects of the great disorder of the 60s. Today, the RCP mimics the 
hysterical Mao cult of the Chairman's final years, in an attempt to maintain an 
ideological link to that period.

The mid-70s split produced a pamphlet that featured some biting cartoons depicting 
Avakian as an ultra-left martinet, echoing the caricatures of Jiang Qing & co. that 
flooded China in the post-Mao period, when the old party leadership retook command.

There was no deeper insult in the RCP than to be called a Trot.

ethan young