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This is not a debate thread. I encourage debate on this topic to happen in /leftypol/, as it would have anyway. This is an /edu/cational thread only.

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the third and highest stage of communist theory, was synthesized in 1982 by the Peruvian Communist Party (known in bourgeois sources by the epithet "Sendero Luminoso"). Here is the document they published concerning this: http://library.redspark.nu/1982_-_Maoism._On_Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Parties and organizations that uphold MLM theory in the modern day include:
>Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun
>Peru People’s Movement (Reorganisation Committee)
>Communist Party of Brazil (Red Faction)
>Red Faction of the Communist Party of Chile
>Maoist Organization for the Reconstitution of the Communist Party of Columbia
>Revolutionary Nucleus for the Reconstitution of the Communist Party of Mexico
>Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist
>Committee Red Flag, FRG
>Maoist Communist Party, French State
Red Flag Collective, Finland
>Committees for the Foundation of the (Maoist) Communist Party of Austria
>Tjen Folket - Communist League, Norway
>Committee to Reconstitute the Communist Party of the USA
>Communist Nucleus Nepal
Two other well-known parties are affiliated in part with MLM, although their political orientation overlaps significantly with what we'd call "Mao Zedong Thought" which is not the same thing:
>Communist Party of India (Maoist)
>Communist Party of Philippines
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<WHY MLM?

Marxism-Leninism is currently the dominant trend of Communist thought and practice in the world, with a significant legacy to back up it's validity overall.

But as has been made quite clear by the formal collapse of the USSR, and the uniform reversion of all still-existing states calling themselves 'socialist' towards liberal, capitalist economies, there are serious flaws in Marxism-Leninism which led to this sorry state of affairs.

In light of this, how can we rebuild our strength, and how can we make sure this historic collapse never happens again?

I believe Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM) holds the answers.

>Why should you consider learning about and practising Marxism-Leninism-Maoism?

>Why should it be considered superior to Marxism-Leninism?
This is what I aim to answer here.

>WHAT


First off, so we are on the same page, let's define what I mean by 'MLM':

>This is the line practised by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) (CPI(M)) as well as the Communist Party of Afghanistan among others.


>This line was most concretely articulated in the 1995 document 'Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism', which was authored by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM).


>It is the third and currently highest stage of Marxist theory and practice, featuring a correct understanding of experience of the Russian revolution post-Stalin and the Chinese revolution up to the current day.


>WHY


Let's jump straight to the why: "Why should I care about MLM?"

Because the only Marxist line to both survive into the 21ST century in practice and carry forward successful armed revolutionary struggle anywhere in the world is MLM.
It's as simple as that.

No other explicitly communist movement has done as much as the Filipino and Indian Maoist movement have been able to past the millennium, and both have been able to solve issues specific to our general period in time through their constant practice and refinement of MLM.

For instance; the single-most essential figure in the Filipino revolution, Jose Maria-Sison, was able as a university student to wed petty-bourgeois student struggles to both working-class and peasant struggles through a vast network of inter-connected organisations sharing common (although not immediately Communist), class-based, democratic ideals.

This was in the 1960s, when the student movements in the Imperial core, although radical, failed to build into anything more than spasmatic movements and clashes with their respective states before running out of steam due to a lack of cohesive class-based understanding and strategy.

This is unfortunately still relevant in the modern day with similar radical student and petty-bourgeois movements in terms of identity (racial, gender and national), environmental and economic struggles.

The other, perhaps more even more universal example is that the Peruvian, Indian and Filippino Protracted People's Wars waged by their respective parties were and are able to survive and thrive without support from any vanguard socialist state, both before and after the collapse of the USSR and reversion of the People's Republic of China back to capitalism.

>HOW


Okay then, how is MLM different to ML?

The principle difference between the two systems, which colours every aspect of the MLM understanding of history, current events and practice is their understanding of dialectics.

In short: The MLM understanding of dialectics says that inner contradictions within a thing are primary and exterior pressures (caused also by contradictions) can only influence what contradictions already exist within a thing.

What this means for practical politics is that, to give a historical example, the revision (removing) of the necessity of class struggle in class society (and thus socialist society) out of Marxism in practice as is so often pinned on Khrushchev and the post-Stalin Soviet Union and it's eventual, formal collapse in 1991 was not due primarily to outside forces sabotaging it, but internal ones doing it from within.

As history has shown, the revisionism and collapse of the Soviet union post-Stalin was not due primarily to CIA sabotage (not until the tail-end with Yeltsin, at least), but an incorrect understanding of Marxism in practice being left unchallenged and uncorrected with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

This was later proved as pattern of Marxism-Leninism itself revisionism arising from within the party repeated itself with the Right line of the Chinese Communist Party as led by Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping becoming dominant after Mao's death and instigating sweeping privatising reforms of industry and agriculture which allowed China to integrate itself into the nascent Neoliberal capitalist order and thus totally abandon the project of socialism in all but rhetoric.

You can pretty much extend this to all still-existing Third International Communist Parties across the world and in your own country, who almost all uniformly followed the CPSU's line well past their initial revisionism under Khruschev.
There are many specific reasons why each of those national parties have fallen into irrelevancy, but this incorrect understanding of history and the lessons of the Chinese revolution and Russian revolution post-Stalin is the principle one.

Simply put: The uncorrected errors of Marxism-Leninism itself is primarily to blame.

But does this mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater?
No, Marxism and Dialectical Materialism has proven themselves to be the most powerful tools for understanding and thus changing the world in human
history thus far, all that is and was needed was a rupture, which came in the form of 'Maoism'.

WHEN
So, where did Maoism come from?

Maoism, and thus MLM, emerged from the 'New Communist' or 'anti-revisionist' movement that first emerged in the 1950s in response to the abject revision of core tenants of Marxism-Leninism first under Nikita Khruschev and later his successors.

This movement was lead first by Mao Zedong and the left wing of the CPC until his death in 1974, and later by the Revolutionary Communist Party of the USA and then the Communist Party of Peru under the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (a congress of New Communist parties).

The aim of this movement was to scrub out the revisionism of the USSR under Khrushchev and later the CPC under Deng Xiaoping and all parties that followed their lines; they saw a return to a 'pure' Marxism-Leninism as being the goal of this.

To do this they pooled their knowledge into correctly evaluating the lessons of the Russian post-Stalin and especially the Chinese revolution, as this had not been formally done yet by any collective body.

The conclusion these parties came to was that Marxism-Leninism had not been perverted and transformed by outside actors such as Khrushchev, but that by it's own logic had produced such figures.
In other words; ML had sown the seeds of it's own reversion to capitalism.

How could this be overcome, they asked.
Their answer was to follow the lessons of the Chinese revolution, which they had just evaluated collectively.

<LESSONS FROM CHINA


There were three big takeaways that all RIM bodies gleamed here:
>Mass Line
>Cultural Revolution
>Protracted People's War

Let's go over each:

>MASS LINE

The mass line is a organisational technique that is key to every successful revolutionary movement, but was first systematised as such by Mao Zedong during the Chinese Revolution.

This strategy is a key process to making sure that the party, which due to the limits on access to education imposed by capitalism on the working and peasant classes naturally has petty-bourgeois foundation, remains a tool for the exploited classes to maintain class domination over the capitalists above anything else.

This is done by physically going out to the exploited masses and ingratiating yourselves with them, hearing their problems thoughts generally, taking the issues they have and creating a plan of action through a Marxist lens and presenting said plan back to them for further refinement.

This is how the technique gets it's name, it is literally the 'line' of the revolutionary 'mass' of people.

>CULTURAL REVOLUTION

Just practising the mass line isn't enough, even in China, where it was practised throughout the revolution, bourgeois thinking and practice within it's respective Communist party was able to gain strength despite this and a stagnant bureaucracy grew in tandem.
This is where the cultural revolution kicks in.

The cultural revolution is an event which takes place after the dictatorship of the proletariat is established and acts as a revolution within a revolution, one within socialist society aimed at scrubbing all the remaining remnants of capitalism from the Communist party and the entire societal superstructure in general.

This is done through a bottom-up mass movement directed not by the party, but organised and carried out by the revolutionary masses in revolutionary committees, who actively criticise every element of the existing socialist society no matter how sacred or seemingly exempt from criticism.

The end-result would be to viciously criticise the Communist party and to ultimately remove those party members belonging the new bourgeoisie that grows within their ranks through bureaucracy and the remaining shreds of capitalist morality and ideology within socialism.

Whilst it's specific expression in China didn't succeed, it did reveal an essential, universal feature of socialism: that class struggle continues and that the masses can and must use their collective strength to continue the struggle until communism is achieved.

>PROTRACTED PEOPLE'S WAR


As for actually seizing the capitalist state and achieving the dictatorship of the proletariat, Protracted People's War is the strategy to be employed.

This runs counter to the ML strategy of insurrection in the state capital and instead chooses a military strategy of slowly building up power in the countryside to then surround the towns and cities and take them one-by-one.

The decreased ability to surveil and control rural areas due to a lack of development there (an endemic symptom of capitalism), the separation from the sources of capitalist ideology and exposure to market economics as well the ability to procure fresh food and water make them infinitely more viable to carry out this strategy.

While it is contested theoretically whether such a strategy can work outside (neo)colonial, semi-feudal contexts, it is worth noting that modern states are specifically designed against insurrectionary strategies, but almost universally struggle against guerilla warfare and PPW where it has been applied, even in the significantly urban nations of Peru and the Philippines by Maoists, Ireland by Republicans and even in the Middle East and North Africa by ISIS and other Islamic Fundamentalist militants.

This strategy has shown to work particularly well in the absence of a major supporting state in the case of the Peruvian, Filipino and Indian People's Wars, all of which having received no significant aid from the USSR, PRC or any other socialist state as did many national liberation struggles in the 20th Century.

There is a saying that 'Insurrection is an art but Protracted People's War is a science'.


I hope this has piqued your interest and, if not, given you a very basic primer into Marxism-Leninism-Maoism either way!

In closing, I will leave you with this:

>ML held to key to achieving socialist revolution, MLM holds the key to maintaining and carrying it forward.




FURTHER READING

If you would like to know more about MLM and start studying it yourself I would recommend these books:

>'Activist Study - Araling Akitbista (ARAK)' by the Communist Party of the Philippines

>'Continuity and Rupture' & 'Critique of Maoist Reason' by Joshua Moufawad-Paul
>'Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basics Course' by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
>'Five Essays on Philosophy', especially 'On Contradiction' & 'On Practice' by Mao Zedong
>'Stand For Socialism Against Modern Revisionism' by Armanda Liwang
>'Rethinking Socialism: What is Socialist Transition' & 'From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal' by Pao-Yu Ching & Deng-Yuan Hsu
>'Selected Reading from the Works of Jose Maria Sison'

(Almost) All of which are available from foreignlanguages.press/

For audiovisual resources, check out:
>The Peace Report yewtu.be/channel/UC9BpQd-PJNr_R2iyToRnoww
>Space Babies yewtu.be/channel/UC__UuPAX7TvF3hGYb5ciVpQ
>Premier Liles yewtu.be/channel/UCSX5GRWdk2Vxwqk0yRg7adg
>On Mass onmasspodcast.com
>Revolutionary Voices maoism.buzzsprout.com

For official party documents from the Peruvian, Filipino and Indian Maoist parties, visit:
https://bannedthought.net/Peru/index.htm
https://bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/index.htm
https://bannedthought.net/India/index.htmread_a_fucking_bookRead a Fucking Book

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>>5496
BASED
Thank you for writing this, anon. I just read it and it does clear up a lot, especially these passages:

>In short: The MLM understanding of dialectics says that inner contradictions within a thing are primary and exterior pressures (caused also by contradictions) can only influence what contradictions already exist within a thing.

>What this means for practical politics is that, to give a historical example, the revision (removing) of the necessity of class struggle in class society (and thus socialist society) out of Marxism in practice as is so often pinned on Khrushchev and the post-Stalin Soviet Union and it's eventual, formal collapse in 1991 was not due primarily to outside forces sabotaging it, but internal ones doing it from within.

That does make me think. I'll have to give those recommended books a read sometime soonthinkThink

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 No.5541

I want to get into mlm but god man I just dont give a fuck about the chinese revolution or any of that shit

 No.5542

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>>5541
Lucky for you the most interesting part of MLM are the current-day practitioners of it both in the Philippines and India!

For the former consult: >>5401

For the later consult: https://bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/index.htm

https://foreignlanguages.press/colorful-classics/historic-eight-documents-charu-mazumdar/

https://foreignlanguages.press/colorful-classics/maoists-in-india-writings-interviews-azad/

https://www.redspark.nu/en/read_a_fucking_bookRead a Fucking Book

 No.5543

The modern classic now available in EPUB and TXT formats for your studying pleasure!

(included is the original PDF)read_a_fucking_bookRead a Fucking Book

 No.5546

>>5496
Interesting post, but there's a question I have. You said this:
>This strategy [the mass line] is a key process to making sure that the party, which due to the limits on access to education imposed by capitalism on the working and peasant classes naturally has petty-bourgeois foundation, remains a tool for the exploited classes to maintain class domination over the capitalists above anything else.
However, in modern first world countries, these "limits on access to education" simply don't exist in the way they did in revolutionary Russia, China, etc. For example, the vast majority of the Chinese population was illiterate in the early 20th century, while the vast majority of 21st century Americans can read just fine. Given the general educational enrichment of the working classes today, why should we expect any revolutionary party to have a petty bourgeois base? On the contrary, the Black Panther Party, for example, filled its ranks with the proletariat and even the lumpenproletariat. Given this change in circumstances, is the mass line still necessary, at least as theorized by Maoists?tankieTankie

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>>5546
I will answer your question by the two sides you laid out:

>in modern first world countries, these "limits on access to education" simply don't exist in the way they did in revolutionary Russia, China, etc.


This is true to an extent, public schooling allows even lumpens the ability to learn at least basic knowledge on a range of subjects.

With that said, the fact still stands that to go out of your way to stumble onto and then go on to research Marxism in it's theory and history in any great depth you need to have a good amount of time and energy to bother taking up the task.

I am approaching this from the current situation in the imperial core (what I assume you're talking about) where Communist are universally anaemic and can barely attract college students let alone the working and lumpen masses.

Marxism and all that is connected with it will never be taught in public schools nor will it be exposed to the general public as anything less than a bogeyman with the usual anti-communist rhetoric ('good in theory but….').

The lack of access to education is not the same as it was is in semi-feudal societies, yes, but it's still present in more subtle way; you may have full access to key Marxist texts to read in print or online as we do, but again most don't have the sheer willpower after a hard, draining day's work to push through a dense text with archaic, academic language when they could instead veg out to TV or scroll through social media.

I suppose today's the petty-bourg' base is not due to the traditional brick wall of separation to education that once existed, but is more so a thorny bramble that most believe they can't bothered with.

Again, it's not a coincidence that the one's to start off revolutionary parties, even in the case of the Black Panthers, are college/university students with both direct access to learning materials, and much more importantly, lots of time on their hands.
If you read Revolutionary Suicide you'd know Huey Newton in particular educated himself in revolutionary theory by flunking classes and reading at his own pace, a rare luxury for most who need to work to eat.

>Given this change in circumstances, is the mass line still necessary, at least as theorized by Maoists?


Even if hypothetically the revolutionary party was totally composed of non-middle class members, you are never truly free from the reality that you will for a number of reasons become detached from the masses and do things counter to their interests.

If you don't listen to what the masses want themselves, can you really serve them as Communists must?

The most important theoretical contribution of the Chinese revolution was the discovery that under socialism a new bourgeois emerges from within the party itself, the pattern was observed in Russia but it was only combated directly during the (Great Proletarian) Cultural Revolution.

It showed us that the mass line is the most fundamental building block to both making, preserving and pushing forward revolution. It's not the be-all-end-all, but it's depth and latent potential as a method for achieving as much as it can is astounding.read_a_fucking_bookRead a Fucking Book

 No.5548

Whilst i'm here have a load of books I found related to Maoism.read_a_fucking_bookRead a Fucking Book

 No.5594

Here's some good streams that cover MLM and it's history:

>People's War in the Philippines: The CPP-NPA w/Space Babies

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vR4bwfW6Nuk

>Combatting Imperialism with The Peace Report

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Hgt3RJSlPug

>Revolutionary Nationalism with Black Red Guard

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-NHMyw3lCA0

>Vučko Answers Your Questions about the PCP

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kIbPizj-xK4read_a_fucking_bookRead a Fucking Book

 No.5600

>>5548
The Shanghai textbook is very good and it needs to be spread more.

 No.5614

Any update on Nepal? Seems like Maoists are regaining momentum against the sellout ML that cucked the Nepali workers out to imperialism.

 No.5620

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A thread of short essays and articles related to Maoism and China, translated by OP from Chinese:

https://nitter.cc/ChunqiaoC/status/1359284576154247169read_a_fucking_bookRead a Fucking Book

 No.5665

Hey all, anyone know any good accounts/histories of the Shining Path?

I've heard most of them are negatively skewed from a bourg perspective.

 No.5668

>>5665
>bourgeois perspective is when you no like same group I like, especially if you are brown person from Peru, silly 3rd worlder

 No.5672

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MLM READING LIST

<ESSENTIALS


Why Maoism?
https://tjen-folket.no/index.php/en/2019/08/14/why-maoism-what-is-maoism/

Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Is Not Just Marxism–Leninism Plus Mao
https://necessityandfreedom.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/marxism-leninism-maoism-is-not-just-marxism-leninism-plus-mao/

Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain
http://libgen.lc/get.php?md5=a00646f118a3427ec19263021b3e84e1&key=06Q5Q1W5DFK8YOHU&mirr=1

<MAO


On Practice & Contradiction
marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/N04-On-Contradiction-Study-2nd.pdf

On Guerrilla Warfare
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/index.htm

On Protracted War
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm

<PERU


Interview With Chairman Gonzalo
the-red-flag.org/en/central-committee-of-the-communist-party-of-peru-interview-with-chairman-gonzalo/

General line of the PCP
gplpcp.wordpress.com/

Marxism, Mariategui and the Women's Movement
the-red-flag.org/en/new-translation-marxism-mariategui-and-the-womens-movement/

<INDIA


Against Avakianism (AJITH)
foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S09-Against-Avakianism-3rd-Printing.pdf

Eight Historic Documents (AZAD)
foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S18-Historic-Eight-Documents.pdf

Urban Perspective
foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S14-Urban-Perspective-4th-Printing.pdf


<PHILIPPINES


Araling Aktibista - Activist Study ARAK
foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-2nd-Printing.pdf

Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism
foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S07-Stand-for-Socialism-3rd-Printing.pdf

Philippine Society and Revolution
bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/1970s PhilippineSocietyAndRevolution-4ed.pdfread_a_fucking_bookRead a Fucking Book

 No.5720

Just thought I'd throw these sources in here into a slower thread so they can be on hand for when the
>muh baby boiler
brigade show up again:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168018820375

>The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Peru is usually cited as an example of how capture–recapture methods can help improve our understanding of mass violence from incomplete observed data. Using 25,000 documented death records, the TRC estimated a total of 69,000 killings, and that the Shining Path was the main perpetrator, in contrast with the raw data where the Peruvian State appears to be responsible for the most killings. One feature not often noticed is that the TRC applied an unusual indirect procedure, combining data on different perpetrators and lumping together missing perpetrator data in one group. I show that direct estimations with strict stratification by perpetrator and accounting for missing data do not support the results of the TRC’s indirect approach. I estimate a total of 48,000 killings, substantially lower than the TRC estimate, and the Peruvian State accounts for a significantly larger share than the Shining Path. Rather than an example of correcting biases in the observed data through capture–recapture methods, the TRC actually introduced further distortion.


https://oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-495

>Even after President Alejandro Toledo increased the number of commissioners to twelve from seven (adding Ames, Arias, Lay, Antúndez, Morote, and the observer Bambarén), the commissioners still reflected elite sectors of Peru least affected by the violence. All were residents of Lima, all were urban dwellers, only one spoke Quechua, only one understood it, and none self-identified as Indigenous or campesino. As Commissioner Carlos Iván Degregori later commented, “even the composition of the CVR reflected the gaps in the country” that underlay the political violence


>It is crucial to remember that survivors of the violence made decisions about what they would and would not share with the CVR. Anthropologist Kimberly Theidon observed that in many rural Ayacucho communities devastated by the violence, campesinos held local assemblies prior to the arrival of the CVR’s testimonial teams. At those assemblies, community authorities decided what local residents should say and what they should leave unsaid, lest some community members’ initial support for Shining Path militants somehow cast the community as less deserving of reparations. As Theidon notes, “There was an effort to close narrative ranks, prompted by the many secrets people keep about a lengthy fratricidal conflict and the numerous expectations a commission generates.”


>The CVR also conducted interviews with more than one thousand leaders and rank-and-file members of the Shining Path and MRTA. Commissioners decided against allowing any of these individuals to participate in the public hearings,


>Politicians from the period, including former president Alan García, gave testimonies and participated in public hearings.


>Some have also argued that the CVR was too narrow in its focus, upset that the Final Report did not highlight their communities’ experiences or investigate their claims. Others contend that the CVR should have discussed the forced sterilizations carried out by the Fujimori government’s Family Planning Program. Those sterilizations of over two hundred thousand predominantly impoverished women of Indigenous descent occurred without informed consent and sometimes against the women’s will, often with grave health consequences

 No.5950

Does anyone have a PDF/epub of the 1995 document 'Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism'?

 No.5984

bumping for this >>5950

 No.5986

>>5950
here you go

taken from http://library.redspark.nu/1995_-_Long_Live_Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!read_a_fucking_bookRead a Fucking Book

 No.6235

Do you think Shining Path had enough support from Peruvians to consider its efforts as a failed revolution? Mao won many hearts and minds, it seems that Gonzalo did not.

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bump

 No.6852

>>5490
>>5403
>>406

Don't know if these are all the same person, but would you be interested in writing this up into one article explaining modern Maoism for publication in New Multitude?

 No.6853

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>>6852
OP of the latter two posts here, I would be more than willing to write something for NM!

What email would you prefer I contact you by?

 No.6855

so does Maoism completely ignore the role of proletariat and bourgeois in the first world? by painting all first world workers as labor aristocracy?

 No.6856

>>6855
refer to

>>5403
>Maoist Third-Worldism (MTW)

 No.6859

>>6853
can contact me through [email protected] or just directly message via twitter twitter.com/newmultitude/

thanks!

 No.7013

Since the old man is dead, and the thread on the other side will fade into obscurity, this is a good place to leave all this links.

Stuff (audiovisual material) that was produced by the SP in their heyday and some of the remnants antiGonzalo, most of them are dead of course

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjSr7VqQXSI

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEzwDx-QAqs
PCP congress 1989 (taken in a raid by the GEIN to the archive of the SP)

>https://www.youtube.com/user/srraul1970

I believe this one is one of the Quispe Palomino brothers, who according to investigation (or was it a interview?) admitted being in the Lucanamarca massacre, he died in the VRAEM when a link of them in the area ambushed him with the police by blowing the house he was in. Action movie style.

>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0WZ-GNf3mlLcF377r9AZDg

Red flag, hip hop group. Chilean gonzaloites. The rescatable are some raps but primarily the cassete tapes in it. From what I've read they were common to mantain moral (mentioned in the book of the childsoldier turned soldier turn priest turned sociologist Gavilan, or was it another book but similar experience?)

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biDWUIef8lQ

Tape from a prison (Cantogrande?) of the female SP prisoners. The representation of Cultural Revolution plays or native ones were common.

>https://www.youtube.com/user/mararmadodemasas

Various things, from music to movies, the one that says recovered from the 90s is indeed interesting.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtMQ7pvvhRY

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtMQ7pvvhRY
And to close, Jovaldo (poet from the streets of Lima, inmortalized if not how I could have found him? who died in the siege/massacre of El Fronton and Estudiantina Cordillerana (it was common that bands of school or university students were called Estudiantinas). Looks like recently a movie about Jovaldo was done, it is in yt and is in spanish, a documentary, a biography.

>https://youtube.com/watch?v=C_KBqJE0u4w

And of course, Walter Humala

 No.7055

>>7013
Based

 No.7085

Looking back to the mirages of the past, and hearing voices and music of dead people, one can only wonder, sick joke, that this feels like the palace of some mummified ancient Sapa Inca.

September 19th 2021
>It is not easy to write an epitaph about Abimael Guzmán Reynoso (1934-2021). Because even though he capitulated and sold, for a plate of beans (or a cake), the revolutionary process that he himself initiated in 1980 in a very poor and forgotten village in the Peruvian highlands called Chuschi (where neither the State with its power groups, nor the pseudo-parliamentary left, ever reached nor will ever reach), one cannot deny his contribution to that unprecedented feat in Peru in the 80s and 90s. Nor can it be denied that he was a fundamental architect of the armed struggle carried out by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP): the most important project of radical transformation in the republican era of that country.

>Guzmán is owed three fundamental achievements in the revolutionary camp in Peru. The first is to have ostensibly influenced the party line, which applied Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the specific analysis of Peruvian society. In the light of Marxist ideology (and braided to the path of Amauta, which he embodied in his masterpiece "7 Essays"), the PCP characterized Peruvian society as semi-feudal and semi-colonial, as well as tied to imperialism, mainly Yankee. The analyses of the PCP, as early as the 1970s, shed light on the social relations of production, power and property which were denied by the analyses of the right and the revisionist left.


>Guzmán's second achievement was to lead the reconstruction of a political-military organization; making it capable of leading an armed struggle from the countryside to the city, and following Lenin's principle of the party of cadres. The ideological formation, discipline and mystique of the cadres, militants and members of the Party, the Army and the Front, were central pillars of the advance of the PCP.


>His third achievement is to have led the PCP to initiate the armed struggle. The People's War led by this organization, until the end of the 1990s, was undoubtedly the greatest popular and revolutionary epic in the history of the republic. By the beginning of that decade, the armed struggle of the PCP had already spread over 70% of the national territory, putting the Peruvian State in check, which had to make use of a policy of assassinations, massacres, disappearances, tortures and laws of exception, besides using all its armed forces, police and almost half a million ronderos, to defeat the Maoist guerrillas. This fact alone contradicts the hackneyed discourse of the right wing and academic revisionism, that the PCP's struggle would have been about a handful of "terrorists" trained to cause panic in the population. Nothing in politics spreads and lasts so long because of fear, but because of genuine adhesions and commitments.


>However, it must be emphasized that, although Guzmán was fundamental in the restructuring of the PCP and the subsequent armed struggle, neither can everything be reduced to his person, far from it. In the PCP, there were great cadres who were also vital in the development of the Party and the initial impulse of the armed struggle. It is worth mentioning Augusta La Torre and Antonio Díaz Martínez: two historical figures of this militarized political party. Specifically, Augusta La Torre is credited with an essential role in promoting the actions of the PCP, translating theory into practice. The People's War was forged, in turn, through militants who sealed their youth with heroism; such as Edith Lagos, Carlota Tello and "Jovaldo". Finally, the PCP would never have reached where it did without the dedication of thousands of militants who gave their lives; for example, in the massacres of the Lurigancho and Santa Barbara panels in 1985, El Fronton in 1986 and Canto Grande in 1992.


>In spite of having been the greatest revolutionary gesture of the republican era, the PCP was defeated by the Peruvian State. This should not be attributed, however, only to the brutal repression of the State (known as "the dirty war") and the crucial intervention of Yankee imperialism, but also to strategic and tactical errors of the PCP. One of the biggest was to have underestimated the enemy. This was expressed, for example, in the Maoist guerrilla offensive in the countryside, especially in the southern highlands of the country. Such military actions hit the peasantry of the south so hard that a large part of them decided to support the State. The PCP also underestimated the capacity of the people to resist such an offensive for such a long period of time, for years. A related problem was the failure to take proper care of its own forces. On this aspect, it is worth asking, was it correct to declare the Strategic Balance when the PCP forces had been hard hit in the southern and central highlands and in Puno? These are just a few examples of the errors that were expressed at the national, regional and local levels. Guzman dies without having made the necessary balance of the war. The comrades, who gave their lives and their freedom for the Party and the socialist revolution, deserve that balance sheet that Guzman denied and the former Central Committee continues to deny.


>The above-mentioned contributions made by the former "Chairman Gonzalo" to the development of the PCP and the revolutionary struggle in Peru were largely tarnished by the betrayal of the armed struggle that he himself initiated and led. In 1993, together with other members of the Central Committee in jail (in dialogues with Vladimiro Montesinos: the power behind the shadows of the Fujimorato regime), he called to "fight" for a Peace Agreement aimed at "solving the problems derived from the war". Unusually, that is what Guzmán asked for. Even though, until shortly before his capture, he was shouting to the winds that the PCP would never negotiate anything, and that they would only sit down at a table as victors, to define the terms of surrender with the representatives of the defeated and old Peruvian State.


>Once in jail, Guzmán forgot his preaching and together with the entourage of his Central Committee threw everything overboard. This betrayal was the most accurate and effective attack against the PCP militants. It divided the Party between the followers of the aforementioned Peace Accord and those in favor of continuing the armed struggle. What the Armed Forces and the police could not achieve with their massacres, tortures and disappearances, Abimael Guzman achieved in a few minutes. Thus, the legendary "Gonzalo" and his Central Committee managed to break the main strengths of the Party as a whole: its indeclinable morale and its more than generous dedication.


>This capitulation was not entirely a surprise, however. Guzmán was able to capitulate because he had built a party around himself. In this respect, our director Luis Arce Borja wrote: "The loyalty and 'subjection' expressed by the militancy to Gonzalo, as was seen in practice, did not mean loyalty to Marxism or even to the party and the process no longer depended on the strength of the historical movement of the oppressed classes, but rather on the decision and will of the absolute leader" (1).


>In this way, Guzmán forged party structures where there was no room for criticism or self-criticism. The so-called two-line struggle, which should sanction the party line, was applied only to sanction the directives of the omnipresent "Chairman Gonzalo". In other words: "The party leadership, as well as Gonzalo thought, appear as absolutes in the high ranks of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP). They are placed above the structures of participation of the militants: congresses, conferences and other instances. With this, the two-line struggle and democratic centralism which, as Marxism proves, are the pillars of the communist organization, are abolished" (2).


>Guzman has died without having made, together with his Central Committee, a balance sheet of the People's War that he led. That political balance sheet is essential to carry out the second reconstruction of the Communist Party of Peru, and in this way to once again become the revolutionary vanguard that is absent today.


>Failure to comply with the above will only contribute to weaken and disarm (in every sense) the movements and the just popular protests which, even more so in these last years, have been raging in that country and in the world. That is to say, it will contribute to the fact that all that heroic resistance of the masses exploited and deceived by capitalist power, sooner rather than later -and as has already been happening-, will vanish without achieving its goals among the mills of time. This is another lesson of Peru's recent history, and something common to the experiences of other peoples of the world: without a legitimate organized leadership, without a Party, it will continue to be (and hurt) a mere illusion to take power and the sky by storm.


Notes:
(1) Luis Arce Borja (2009) Memoria de una Guerra 1980-2000, p. 269.
(2) Ebd., p. 365.

 No.8403

>Those workers (proletarians) in the developed countries who benefit from the superprofits extracted from the impoverished workers of developing countries form an "aristocracy of labor". The phrase was popularized by Karl Kautsky in 1901
I'm noticing this really is a recurring theme with Lenin, but I'll leave this for another thread…
>and theorized by Vladimir Lenin in his treatise on Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. [b]According to Lenin, companies in the developed world exploit workers in the developing world where wages are much lower. The increased profits enable these companies to pay higher wages to their employees "at home" (that is, in the developed world), thus creating a working class satisfied with their standard of living and not inclined to proletarian revolution. It is a form of exporting poverty, creating an "exclave" of lower social class. Lenin contended that imperialism had prevented increasing class polarization in the developed world and argued that a workers' revolution could only begin in one of the developing countries, such as Imperial Russia.[/b]

By contrast, the definition within revolutionary syndicalism is that trade union bureaucracy, 'yellow unions', or social democratic unions were labelled 'labor aristocracy', (the IWW for example instead being a revolutionary industrial union, created within the orthodox Marxist theories of De Leonism).

This also implies that this imply that as places like China become more 'developed' and wages rise, wages will balance out between the developed/developing world and perhaps agitate the proletariat in developed countries to revolution?

>What is to be done as class-conscious proletarians of the developed countries if Revolution can only arise from developing nations, and those populations do not desire our adventurist migration there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neI-ol2AowM How to Think Like a Vietnamese Communist: An Intro to Dialectical Materialism!

 No.9632

I do not think that I understood this part well:
>Some people might think that if the value of a commodity is determined by the quantity of labour spent on it, the more idle and unskilful the labourer, the more valuable would his commodity be, because more time would be required in its production. The labour, however, that forms the substance of value, is homogeneous human labour, expenditure of one uniform labour power. The total labour power of society, which is embodied in the sum total of the values of all commodities produced by that society, counts here as one homogeneous mass of human labour power, composed though it be of innumerable individual units. Each of these units is the same as any other, so far as it has the character of the average labour power of society, and takes effect as such; that is, so far as it requires for producing a commodity, no more time than is needed on an average, no more than is socially necessary.
Is Marx meaning that what matters is the average time used to make the commodity, and not the indiviual's pace?

 No.9633

"Foreign Languages Press" (Paris) are kind of hacks but they do provide paperbacks of stuff for cheap. They also have PDF's on their site
https://foreignlanguages.press/foundations/
https://foreignlanguages.press/works-of-maoism/
https://foreignlanguages.press/colorful-classics/
https://foreignlanguages.press/new-roads/

 No.9634

File: 1643916995362-0.pdf (1.43 MB, 173x255, MaoSW1.pdf)

File: 1643916995362-1.pdf (1.89 MB, 173x255, MaoSW2.pdf)

File: 1643916995362-2.pdf (1.44 MB, 173x255, MaoSW3.pdf)

File: 1643916995362-3.pdf (1.83 MB, 173x255, MaoSW4.pdf)

File: 1643916995362-4.pdf (1.88 MB, 173x255, MaoSW5.pdf)


 No.9636

>>9634
Consider posting these in the pdf thread >>1250

 No.9667

>>391
>Page not found


Seriously? Articles don't even stay up for two years?

 No.10247

bump

 No.10731

Does anybody know any good books on the GPRC? Specifically documentaries? I already watched *how yukong moved the mountains*

Also does anybody know of any books presenting a good argument that argue for the universality of MZT principals? Or any good starting point with MLM? I am not convinced from discussions that I have had with MLMs. There is a difference between universality and applicability outside of china.

 No.10732

>>10731
GPCR*

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 No.11055

>>1213
i'll direct you towards:
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/2nd-congress/ch11.htm#v2-p153
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/2nd-congress/doc02.htm
https://www.marxists.org/subject/workers/index.htm

the DotP will incorporate workplace democracy. (Though for modern conditions, unless the union wave grows and spreads, it might be more workable to go for taking delegates from poor neighborhoods as well as workplaces). At the same time, historical example has shown that the DotP centralizes into a state form, at least under the conditions of being besieged by capitalist countries - this is the condition of any revolution, so i wouldn't hold on to the idea of councils of workers (and other proletarian) delegates being the main force of economic planning for long, but being incorporated into a larger system as the human side. (There can be some professional specialization into the subject of ordering production, since it's a technical rather than political job. The political aspect should belong to the councils who directly represent the people and their interests, and who ultimately control production of a given area. This ordering follows democratic centralism (or the mass line) - take the particular knowledge and desires of the people, give it to professionals to analyze and figure out how to make workable, then hand this back down to the people as a plan of action)

 No.11097

Castro on the shining path:

http://lanic.utexas.edu/projec>Oscar Eduardo Bravo] Oscar Eduardo Bravo of Radio Programs of Peru.
>Commander Fidel Castro, I have two questions. First, what is the Cuban Government's position regarding the terrorist group Shining path, which is operating in Peru, and now according to reports is also in Bolivia, Chile,and in Tucuman, Argentina?
>Second, do you have doubts about President Alan Garcia's abilities? This I ask based on your message in which you seem to question him, as if doubting what he has promised. Do you have any fear of losing some of your leadership in Latin America, especially among the group of debtors?
>[Castro] You have asked at least three questions in one, which do not seem to have any relation. You ask me about Shining Path. I absolutely have no links with Shining Path. I do not know and have never known anyone linked to Shining Path. I know as much about Shining Path as you do. It is a mystery. I have said in some of my inter views that it seems to confirm the country's state of social instability. It seems to confirm a very deep economic crisis in the country. That is what Shining Path seems to mean – more so, when you read the statistics on Cuzco, about the number of illiterate and hungry peasants and undernourished children.
>A Peruvian peasant leader who spoke here recently complained about very few people having more than 200 calories daily and according to what the charts recommended a person should consume 2,500 calories daily. There are children who are only getting 10 to 15 calories [corrects himself] 15 to 20 grams of protein daily, who should be consuming an average of 60, 70 or 80 grams of protein. More than 100 children for every 1,000 die every year. I call this terrorism of the worst kind. How many children are going to be born in Peru? Peru has approximately 20 million inhabitants. Suppose we place the birthrate at 3 percent.This means that at least half a million will be borne and if 10 percent of these die in their first year of life,this will mean that 50,000 children will die. However, with a health system like the one we have in Cuba, more than 40,000 of those children could be saved. This means that the existing social system is the cause of the death of 40,000 children every year. To this we must add those children who die between the age of 1 and 5 and those who grow up with physical and mental problems. There is not a more heinous form of terrorism than the one created by that exploitation system.
> Yet, I only hear about the other type of terrorism, never about this terrorism. I would like to hear more talk about this type of terrorism. The other terrorism is a social outburst.
>Anyone can understand that whenever there is a movement advocating a program that has unknown objectives and intentions, but that remains active after so many years, this means that the country is facing a terrible social situation.
>I realize that this problem cannot be solved with weapons. Peru's internal peace problem can only be solved through political means. Among such means, are the eradication of the social factors and causes that originated the problem and when the people of the rural areas and cities and the abandoned children stop dying of hunger and when there is no malnutrition,poverty, and unemployment.
>The problem must be faced by going to the roots of what is causing these conditions and not by the use of force. The problem will never be solved by weapons. The social cause of the problem is clear and deep. Any politician, scientist, or sociologist can perfectly explain the situation.
>I think that if a patriotic and nationalist effort is made; if an
anti-imperialist struggle for independence is carried out to solve these problems, you could be on the path to solving the existing situation.
>You mentioned to me that the Shining Fath is deployed all along the Andes Cordillera. But how can I tell? You tell me that it is also in Bolivia. I know that Bolivia has similar social conditions. It is in Paraguay, also. I think that there has been some exaggeration and that such reports have a purpose. It has been disseminated by someone interested in having the people believe so.
>I think that my message was clearly and frankly supportive. We published a note wishing the government success. We said that if he [Peruvian President Garcia] really carries out a serious, steady and upright struggle to free the country from imperialism and to solve social calamities, he could count on Cuba's support. I think the message was clear and categorical. He can count on our firm support. I did not express any lack of confidence. However, I have a responsibility to my people. I cannot a priori express
unconditional support. I expressed support as we usually do for everyone within given circumstances. You must realize that there has been a great deal of rhetoric in this hemisphere. We cannot be guided just on plain words, we must wait for facts. If the deeds live up to the promises, then we will not hesitate to give him all our support.

http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/castro/db/1985/19850804-1.htmlt/castro/db/1985/19850804-1.html

 No.11417

What's it like being so retarded that you idolize a grifting Peruvian schizo?

 No.11421

>>11097
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. He is notably understanding in his statement on the growing civil war, even though he gives reserved support for Garcia. Of course from the PCP's point of view, they found this non-sufficient, as they were building force to overthrow the bourgeois state of Peru.
>>11417
Pointless to throw around words you can't define

 No.12017

>>10832
Thanks anon, some nice pdfs right there

 No.20492

These books are expensive as shit on Amazon Kindle, even for us in the Philippines.

These are Ka Joma's writings, by topic. They go from the 1960s to before his death in 2022.

Parts 1-3 are easily findable online so I won't upload them.

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 No.20611

>>10832
I know that Marxism compares itself to Newtonian physics in being correct enough inasmuch as it can be applied, which I agree with, but maybe figure out a little more than Newtonian physics before defining 'materialism,' because though that flies in 1848, today's not gonna take that seriously.


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