A Reader in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism Contents Introduction Revolution and Guiding Thought Great Leadership (or Jefatura) The Universality of Protracted People’s War Concentric Construction of the Revolutionary Movement The Militarization of the Vanguard Party And Unitary People’s War NOTE: This pamphlet has been written primarily for readers who have already…

What I write here is deliberately brief; I do not feel much needs to be said that hasn’t been regarding the problem of the anti-abortion tide in this country. This concerted effort to deprive the female proletariat of its rights is a manifestation of bourgeois patriarchy, a part of the…

We are engaged now in a long, protracted combat, a dialectical conflict on a vast historical scale. The revolutionary process of the global class struggle of the proletariat for socialism got its real start in Paris, and has had its rollicking ups and downs since in the miners’ Labin/Albona, the…

I. THE FACTS OF THE SITUATION Anthropogenic climate change, in its various components (ocean acidification, atmospheric carbonization, global warming), is real, and it is actively harmful to a wide variety of species, most significantly for our purposes the general masses of humanity and especially the poor and those vulnerable for…

To paraphrase a likely apocryphal quotation from Chairman Mao: communism is love, our love for the masses, but it is also a hammer with which to smash the enemy of the masses. Shall we regret this, shall we beg forgiveness for smashing the enemy, shall we bend our knees and…

Abstract Among the academics and pseudointellectuals of bourgeois society, a misinformative philosophical trend of perennial popularity is what I will call the spectrum theory in various forms: the idea that political ideas can essentially be expressed, explained, and compared through some form of “spectrum” diagram. It is easy to understand…

The zeitgeist of this moment is the division of the world between three great imperialist powers. The USA remains the hegemonic capitalist-imperialist superpower dominating global production and oppressing and exploiting the workers of the world, while the fascistic state-bourgeoisie and imperialist governments of Russia and phony-socialist/social-imperialist China race to catch…

“When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a…