“While maintaining this firm position, our Party is also continuing to advance in the struggle against the anarchic practices of imperialism. Our Party has defined sexual opportunism as follows: sexual opportunism is opportunism in the sphere of sexual practice; that is, sexual activity divorced from the guidance of proletarian ideology. Sexual opportunists are driven by the spontaneous, petty-bourgeois, imperialism-driven, postmodernist logic of ‘pleasure and gratification’. Postmodernist intellectuals promote this kind of sexual activity, while opportunists cling to it, because once politics becomes distorted, every aspect of life becomes distorted along with it. And within every distortion, postmodernist ideology binds opportunists tightly. They go hand in hand, and they will inevitably perish together. In a Party that carries on the legacy of Comrades Marx, Lenin, and Mao Zedong, postmodern opportunists have no place. To revitalize the Party’s work, they must be expelled.”
“We need to re-examine our understanding of class struggle. Many comrades once held the mistaken view that armed struggle was the only form of class struggle. Armed struggle is indeed the highest form of class struggle, but if we become lax on the ideological front and do not regard the struggle on this front as part of class struggle, then we are doomed to fail on the front of armed struggle.”
On July 8, 2026, Red Herald reposted an article by the Northern Coordination Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), titled “Postmodern Opportunism.” I used DeepL and ChatGPT to produce a machine translation and carry out an initial manual proofreading, and am now posting the first draft of the Chinese-to-English translation.
Postmodern Opportunism.pdf (494.2 KB)
Afterword
Some people in leftist circles claim that the “Northern Coordination Committee” is a fake organization supported by the old Indian state, intended to link certain “progressive intellectuals” with the Communist Party of India (Maoist), making it convenient to label them “Maoists” and arrest them. Their reasoning is that press releases previously issued by the Central Committee, the Eastern Regional Bureau, and other bodies of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) never mentioned this organization, while the organization itself claimed that certain “progressive intellectuals” were traitors to the Party and expelled them from the Party—an unusual situation, since the Communist Party of India (Maoist) had never openly linked progressive intellectuals directly to the Party in the past. Personally, I think that, for people in leftist circles, some of the article’s statements criticizing LGBT people may have “gone beyond the bounds of permissible courtesy,” and that this is why they support the view that the “Northern Coordination Committee” is fake.
In view of the above, and given that following the paralysis of the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist), the Northern Coordination Committee became virtually the CPI (Maoist)’s only source of press releases, while Red Herald also reposted some documents from the Northern Coordination Committee, I chose to try translating this theoretical article into Chinese. I may translate other documents later as well, which will also make it easier to determine the nature of this organization.
During the translation process, ChatGPT discovered that the English translation contained many spelling and grammatical errors. This may be because the severe situation facing the Indian revolution has left the authors no time to correct such minor details. Although this caused difficulties for the translation—for example, there was the word “malagation,” which could not be found in any English-Chinese dictionary—GPT successfully inferred from the context that it was a misspelling of “amalgamation” and provided a logically appropriate translation.
In addition, while searching for the original Chinese text of the quotation from Chairman Mao, I discovered that the article “Things Are Beginning to Change” in Volume 5 of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, published during the Hua-revisionist period, was also an adulterated version: at least in the following passage, “There is also a section of people with revisionist or Right-opportunist ideas. These people are comparatively dangerous, because their ideas are a reflection of bourgeois ideas within the Party. They yearn for bourgeois liberalism and deny everything. They have countless ties with bourgeois intellectuals in society. For several months, people have been criticizing dogmatism while letting revisionism off the hook; revisionism must be criticized. If dogmatism is not criticized, many wrong things cannot be corrected. We should now begin paying attention to criticizing revisionism.”, “Revisionism must be criticized” was altered to “Dogmatism must be criticized”, while some punctuation was also changed to conceal the fact of the alteration. The version altered by the Hua revisionists was translated into Hindi and other languages, and was quoted by the author of “Postmodern Opportunism”—one could say that its poison has spread overseas.
The presumably official English translation, the original Hindi text, and more documents from the Northern Coordination Committee can be found via the hyperlinks. The bold text, footnotes, hyperlinks, and other special formatting in the Chinese translation PDF were added by the translator; in the original, only the individual headings used special formatting.
