December 21, 2018 The need to continue reclaiming the teachings and thought of Jose Carlos Mariátegui “In synthesis, Mariátegui was a Marxist-Leninist. Beyond that, in Mariátegui, the founder of the Party, we find theses similar to those that Chairman Mao has made universal. Thus, as I see it, today Mariátegui would be a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. This …
On Social Fascism
September 18, 2018 On Social Fascism “One may say without exaggeration that the most central task of our days (nay, perhaps even of our entire epoch) is to defeat social-democracy, the main factor of the international counter revolution.”- Clara Zetkin [Speech to the Fourth Comintern Congress, 1922] Introduction Any theorization of social democracy as social …
All About that Base? No Struggle?
September 5, 2018 “The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution.” – VI Lenin, The Dual Power Marxist Center, and especially its supporters in the Seattle area and to a lesser …
In Further Commemoration of Black August
August 6, 2018 “History, fortunately, dispels all doubts and clears up all ambiguities.” — Jose Carlo Mariategui. [JCM2] In our previous article, The Black August Contradiction, the history of repression and rebellion within the Black Nation is detailed. In this follow-up, we theorize the centrality of the Black Nation within the overall struggle for national …
“Maoism” From Below
July 27, 2018 On the right opportunist, revisionist, and liquidationist, theory of J. Moufawad Paul Classical Trotskyite critiques of Marxism-Leninism tend to frame themselves as an attack on “Stalinism” which is not actually a political tendency but a slur term used to void the teachings of Lenin via an attack on the leadership of Stalin …
Así mueren los enemigos de la clase
July 11, 2018 Lucanamarca 1983 and revolutionary violence “Even quite progressive people said, ‘Though terrible, it is inevitable in a revolution.’ In short, nobody could altogether deny the word ‘terrible.’ . . . The fact is that the great peasant masses have risen to fulfil their historic mission and that the forces of rural democracy …
Interrogating Social Media
Some thoughts on social media I was recently turned on to “communist” twitter, while I had been appalled and disgusted by “left –book” for some time I had not encountered the living hell that is left-twitter, upon investigating it and the bizarre interactions that take place there, I was confronted with how hysterical this would …
The Criticism of Mortals
June 29, 2018 Editor’s note: We are republishing a corrected and updated version of this text, which is not only a sharp refutation of the revisionism of Joshua Moufawad-Paul, but also a useful intervention into the questions of the party, the two-line struggle and how proletarian ideology develops. Article written by Kavga In only a …
In Defense of the Mass Line against Rightist Attacks
June 22, 2018 Editors Note: We are republishing this essay, which was one of our first publications as a journal, in light of our upcoming first print publication. by Kavga One prominent thread linking various rightist and revisionist strains of thought is the distortion of or attack upon the mass line. Some who claim to …
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Internal Contradictions and FBI Counterintellegence, a Book Review: A Threat of the First Magnitude, FBI Counterintelligence & infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-74
June 24, 2018 In this follow up to Heavy Radicals, the FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists, authors Aaron J Leonard and Connor A Gallagher drop a treasure trove of documents and research showing just how concerned the US government was, and I would argue still is with combating organized communists in the political, ideological …
Struggle Sessions Preservation Project 