I don’t know why I didn’t post this here before, but here is a brilliant video that appeared on YouTube a few months ago which exposes the IMT for what it is. I would like to congratulate the brave person who made it, and I invite you all to listen to it and also to read the comments below of people sharing their horrible experiences with this disgusting cult.
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listen mate, your articles on the IMT are really good but if you are going to seriously try and get people away from it you probably should seperate your political blog from your cult-watch blog. most of us who have concerns about the IMT have disillusions with the org, not the philosophy. framing it as “leaving the cult of marxism” just plays into the hands of the SA line which states that anyone leaving the org is leaving the progressive politics which they have probably believed in for years
While I do have firm disagreements with the political stances of this blog’s author, I think we should keep in mind that ANY disagreement with the official line of the International “Marxist” Tendency is going to be spun by the leadership as leaving progressive politics in general. I am sure that simply taking the video cited in this blog post seriously will also be construed as inevitably leaving progressive politics (the person who made the video will probably be labeled with some kind of thought-terminating cliche, e.g. “Partisan of Postmodernist Identity Politics”). This approach of the IMT coincides with what the psychiatrist, Robert Jay Lifton, called the “Sacred Science” (one of eight attributes of thought reform, or so-called brainwashing). What the IMT leadership posits is held to be absolute, and it cannot be fundamentally questioned. Anyone who disagrees is “unscientific”, “not serious”, “against the only true Marxist organization”, etc. Some long-time IMT members who came out against the sexual assault coverup last summer were instantly labelled as such (some of whom were loyal, dues paying members for over a decade). If hypothetically speaking, Rob Sewell did something this, even he would instantly be discarded as some kind of “wrecker” who was never really on the IMT’s side in the first place.
I don’t think that is in accident that a growing number of detractors and ex-IMT members are starting to call the IMT a cult. Where there is smoke, there is fire.
I think is important to analyze raw information (something one will never learn in any cult or destructive authoritarian organization), as important information can still be found if we find given stances of a source disagreeable. My doubts about the IMT built up for a few years before I finally left, but I still ended up at an independent study of thought reform, cults, and totalitarian organizations in spite of my political disagreements with this blog’s author, in addition to disagreements with some of the methodology employed by Dr. Steven Hassan.
I apologize if I come off as rambling, but in short, there is no correct way to fundamentally disagree with the leadership of the IMT (or any other destructive authoritarian organization or cult) – you are “abandoning progressive politics” no matter what you do or say.