Tariq Ali on Maoism - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

承前*1

Tariq Ali*2 “What the Maoist slavery sect tells us about the far left” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/26/maoist-slavery-sect-far-left

因みにTariq Ali氏はトロツキスト。
Aravindan Balakrishnan事件を巡って、”The recent Monty Python revival*3 has come with a bizarre reminder from south London that once, long ago, there were a few tiny Maoist groups in Britain who used language that could have been cribbed from Life of Brian*4.”という出だし。
何故毛沢東主義は人を惹き付けるのか。

What was the attraction of Maoism? The figure of Mao and the revolution loomed large, but the outpourings from these groups did not suggest a close reading of On Contradiction*5 or other texts by Mao that might have stimulated the brain cells. Instead they became fantasy outfits, each with its own homegrown Mao playing on the genuine desire for change that dominated the 1967-77 decade.

新訳実践論・矛盾論 (国民文庫)

作者: 毛沢東,毛沢東選集翻訳委員会
出版社/メーカー: 大月書店
発売日: 1972/07
メディア: 文庫
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ヨーロッパにおける毛沢東主義。大陸では毛沢東主義は英国におけるほどマイナーではない。特にスカンディナヴィア諸国における影響力の強さ；

As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. This was not the case in other parts of Europe. At its peak, German Maoism had more than 10,000 members, and the combined circulation of its press was 100,000. After the great disillusionment – as the Chinese-US alliance of the mid-70s was termed – many of them privatised, and thousands joined the Greens, Jürgen Trittin becoming a staunch pro-Nato member of Gerhard Schröder's cabinet. In France, the Gauche Prolétarienne*6 organised workers in car factories, and set up Libération, its own paper that morphed into a liberal daily. Ex-Maoist intellectuals occupy significant space in French culture, though they are now neocons: Alain Finkielkraut*7, Pascal Bruckner *8, Jean-Claude Milner*9 are a few names that come to mind. The leading leftwing philosopher Alain Badiou*10 never hides his Maoist past.
Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the 70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture. The daily paper Klassekampen*11 still exists, now as an independent daily with a very fine crop of gifted journalists (mainly women) and a growing circulation. October is a leading fiction publishing house and May was a successful record company. Per Petterson*12, one of the country's most popular novelists, describes in a recent book how, when Mao died, 100,000 people in a population of five million marched with torches to a surprised Chinese embassy to offer collective condolences. All this is a far cry from the cult sect now being excavated in Brixton.

毛沢東主義のみならず、「極左」一般の問題（教訓）。特にスターリン主義というか独裁的組織論の引力と「家父長主義」（男尊女卑）；

What always struck me even then as slightly odd was that, regardless of the political complexion of a sect, the behavioural patterns of its leaders were not so different. Even those most critical of Stalinist style and methods tended to reproduce the model of a one-party state within their own ranks, with dissent limited to certain periods and an embryonic bureaucracy in charge of a tiny organisation. It was in western Europe, not under Latin American or Asian military dictatorships, that clandestinity and iron discipline were felt to be necessary.
Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups. Women organised caucuses to monitor male chauvinism inside the groups and challenged patriarchal practices. Pity that not all the lessons were learned. Easy now to forget that many who fought within and led the women's and gay liberation movements – in Europe and elsewhere – had received their political education inside the ranks of the combined far left, warts and all.

*1:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20131126/1385433093 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20131129/1385699757

*2:http://www.tariqali.org/ See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20050713 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20050720 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20060805/1154784162 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110224/1298518433 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20130411/1365645080

*3:Maev Kennedy “Monty Python revival stars promise parrot jokes - but silly walks are out” http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/21/monty-python-revival-parrot-jokes

*4:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

*5:See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Contradiction

*6:Mitchell Abidor “La Gauche Prolétarienne” http://www.marxists.org/history/france/post-1968/gauche-proletarienne/introduction.htm 仏蘭西における毛沢東主義についてはhttp://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110331/1301594464も参照のこと。

*7:See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Finkielkraut See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20070210/1171126143 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20070723/1185154200

*8:See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Bruckner

*9:http://www.web.mdx.ac.uk/cahiers/names/milner.html See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Milner

*11:http://www.klassekampen.no/ See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klassekampen

*12:http://perpetterson.com/ See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Petterson