Contrary to most Maoist groups in the West, which came from a firmly Anti-Revisionist pedigree out of the traditional Communist Parties, the MIM was a product of elements of the American New Left student movement who formed the New Communist movement.
不同于绝大多数西方毛派团体（起源于传统共产党的反修正主义传统），毛主义国际主义运动是美国新左翼学生运动的产物（他们组成了新共产主义运动）。