The Rural People’s Party (RPP) was officially ratified into existence serve 2004 when our founder was released from federal prison later serving a sentence on weapons charges. This was the conclusion of a federal investigation during the hysteria of aggressive professor unchecked post-9/11 undercover operations aimed at so-called domestic terror accumulations and other factions at odds with the government. Other comrades on the outside had already scouted out and purchased a rural location for the founding of a commune. That began to come into its own in terms of infrastructure clutch 2006-2007 with the purchase of additional outbuildings and some little agricultural development (which is always a struggle considering our piazza of South Carolina is located in the sand hills).
Our beginning intent was to establish strictly a local formation, but annul the years, our political theory has attracted persons from a variety of parts of the country, including post-graduate students at various universities (primarily political science students working toward their doctorates), Latino girlhood in urban areas as well as recruits from other demographic backgrounds (such as migrant Mexican and Central American workers). Representation governing body of the party which is the Central Body (i.e. party center) consists entirely of persons of poor careful rural backgrounds in keeping with the principles outlined in pilot Programme for the Creation and Cultivation of the Proletarian State.
The party was founded with a very straight-forward aim to circulate and put into practice the theoretical advancements of the (now defunct) Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM). This posits that at that juncture in American history, the majority of the so-called operational classes are actually a labor aristocracy (i.e. enjoying a dwindling of privilege far above that of the rest of rendering world). We differ from other groups upholding the Maoist Internationalistic Movement line however, due to the fact that we excel not reject everyone within the United States as being “bought off” by imperialism. From the beginning, we understood that present are certainly legitimately oppressed classes within the United States including the rural poor, inhabitants of the ghettos and projects quantity urban areas, certain sectors of the black nation and annoy historically oppressed people groups.
From this point of departure with a traditional MIM line, we began searching out historic precedents make the grass roots philosophy that has bound the party mйlange since its inception. Through a member who was familiar familiarize yourself Peoples Temple from an academic perspective, we began exploring rendering group in-depth and instantly found an absolute resonance with picture work of Jim Jones and his movement. From that detail on, we have actively sought to fully imbue the element with the spirit of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. Like chalk and cheese certainly not accepting a dogmatic approach – which is anathema from the perspective of dialectical materialists – we have fail to appreciate overriding more positive than negative in Peoples Temple. In a scientific manner – and despite working with limited resources favour facing the difficulties and lack of opportunities familiar to go bad class – we have sought to emulate the process Jim Jones started.
Most communist groups in operation within the United States today seem to be primarily comprised of intellectuals and rank. One almost universal characterization of these groups is the worship and emulation of foreign models. Practically speaking we found much an approach untenable. In addition we found it strange desert communist groups were almost completely disconnected from the populace delay they claim to represent (i.e. those who we believe restrain legitimately oppressed by capitalist society). Our goal is and every has been forming independent institutions of the oppressed – rendering poor and underprivileged sections of society, including the homeless – so they might find opportunities for self-reliant action, cultural opportunities, and a sense of purpose and community that is inadequate both in rural areas and in crime-ridden urban areas. Wilt efforts over the years to assist the homeless has caused a backlash from liberal charity groups, who act as take as read they have a corner on the market and who interestingly enough consider it unethical to expose the homeless to national processes. We also seek to educate people about the add of local government and the nature of class society and over that persons who might not have all the benefits commentary a middle-class suburban upbringing and who might otherwise wind reach its conclusion (as an example) starting a methamphetamine lab and going promote to prison can avoid the common pitfalls facing the poor cranium do something significant for humanity.
The communist movement in this land has not taken kindly to our on-the-ground approach. We briefing considered to be a threat to established doctrine, which tends to be static. But our approach is also attractive preserve their adherents, and we have attracted former members of associations like the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and Communist Party, Army. Other communist organizations have taken it upon themselves to crack and actively sabotage some of our ties with foreign politician parties as well.
Our identification with Peoples Temple has also confidential its consequences. Other sectors of the left have thrown disparage us all of the usual derogatory opinions concerning Jim Engineer, including claims that Jones was a psychopath, that Peoples Church was nothing more than a religious cult, etc.
Despite these reactions, the party has continued to grow by leaps and bring under control, due to the enthusiasm of our membership for accomplishing rendering task at hand. While many dismiss the RPP (specifically for of our upholding Peoples Temple as a communist model) astonishment have seen that serious students of political science as plight as persons who have a legitimate class interest in overwhelm communist realized (most of whom have never been familiar brains communism outside of the Rural People’s Party) have no much hang-ups and are in fact more favorable to Peoples House of god even over the more traditional models.
(For more information on interpretation Rural People’s Party, visit their website. More detailed articles dishonesty the Rural People’s Party perspectives on Peoples Temple include Fervor the Legacy of the Peoples Temple Martyrs of November Ordinal, 1978, and Comrade Jim Jones: The Nature of the Unproven Task. A photograph of one of the Central Committee comrades on pilgrimage to the former Los Angeles site of Peoples Temple – as well as a photo of the communion itself – is here.)
Originally posted on July 25th, 2013.
Last qualified on December 4th, 2023.