Little Eichmanns Win

Es ist Zeit für Reich! (It's time for Reich!)
Not surprisingly, the University Colorado board of regents voted 8-1 to fire Ward Churchill. Students present booed the decision, which is a major blow to academic freedom in the United $tates.

JDPON
Monkey Smashes Heaven posts some excerpts from the defunct It's Right to Rebel Forums on the form of the joint dictatorship of the proletariat of oppressed nations (JDPON). Included is the proposal to resettle a large portion of the U$ population in the third world. RT considers this a fascinating plan with a sound basis in communism. Marx emphasized the importance of redistributing the population more evenly between cities and rural areas, and I think the U$ diaspora follows from Marx's logic. Many posts from IRTR indicate such a plan might take decades to execute.

The one fact I have to contend with is the statement that, in general, Third World culture and politics are more advanced. Certainly, the Third World is leading the most advanced communist revolutions in the world, and an advanced culture might logically follow from the politics. Certain aspects of certain cultures are backward and reactionary, though. Communists will find the task of changing the culture of the U$ labor aristocracy very difficult. RT agrees with zamiel:

Focus on the young and let the older ones work until they die off. Why waste effort stamping out ingrained religious and bourgeoisie predispositions? You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Communism Underground

The Ward Churchill verdict could hold serious implications for the progress of scientific communism. If the University of Colorado board of regents succeeds in railroading him, the necessity of survival will drive the best communist scholarship underground. Reactionary University fossils will threaten the personal reputation and livelihood of people who openly undertake communist scholarship. The work will continue, inevitably, but the majority will take place underground. The thin veil of anonymity ensures a minimal amount of security. The importance of security culture pervades our movement. Even at the revisionist revleft forums, users are discouraged from posting personal photographs or too much personal information. People in the imperialist countries can easily and inadvertantly harm struggles elsewhere in the world. The Philippines, India, and Nepal openly massacre comrades, but there's also the covert assassinations and torture chambers for gathering intelligence.