By Cathal We had the honor of interviewing Irish Socialist Republican Media on several questions related to their struggle and the application of MLM to conditions there. We support the struggle for national liberation and socialism in Ireland and see their history of struggle as inspiring to all working and oppressed people of the world …
Maoism vs “Maoism Third Worldism”: Responding to Criticism From a Reader
m From a Reader May 11, 2020 By S. Mazur The long-gone Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), Leading Light Communist Organization (LLCO), and the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (RAIM) are part of a small petty bourgeois trend known as “Maoist” Third-Worldism (TWism). They contend that there is no proletariat to organize in the imperialist countries, and as so …
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Against “Postmodernism”
Today we feature a short piece from the Brazilian “Amigo Do Povo Magazine” on postmodernism. By Augusto Mazdaki Gushek In political and philosophical discussions of any kind, there is always the possibility of engaging in a debate in order to disqualify the debate itself.Philosophical agnosticism or the statement that “since we cannot access such knowledge, …
The Unconquerable Inscription
Bertolt Brecht During the First World WarIn a cell of the Italian prison in San-CarloChock-full of deserters, marauders, tramps,A socialist soldier, with an indelible pencil, scratched on the wall: “Long live Lenin!”Written high up, near the very ceilingof the half-dark cell,those words could be hardly distinguished.But the warders saw themand sent a painter into the …
A Quick Reply to MCG
By S. Mazur After publishing The Negation of Proletarian Politics, the Maoist Communist Group (MCG) replied to our criticisms here. Beyond the pretentious roleplaying of themselves as Lenin scolding an immature Nadezhdin as metaphor, they bring up dishonest allegations and arrogantly suggest that the larger living movement has a low ideological and practical level. A …
The Happy Face of Imperialism: Problems with the Democratic Socialists of America and why Election Boycotts are Necessary
By S. Mazur The “Bernie bump,” a phenomenon referring to the swelling size of Democratic Socialist of America’s (DSA) chapters and organizations in the aftermath of the 2016 elections when Vermont senator and self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders ran, brought them into the spotlight of many progressive people who yearn for a new society. Brought …
The Negation of Proletarian Politics: Notes on Maoist Communist Group’s “Four Points of Orientation”
Article by S. Mazur New York City-based Maoist Communist Group (MCG) recently published a piece entitled Four Points of Orientation On the Present Crisis which calls for “Communists” [where?] to abide by four general points informing mass work and Party “construction.” These points in fact are decent, but pompous and without any means of implementation. …
Illegal Death
Illegal death (tribute to Helin Bölek)Poem by Facundo Rompehuevos dear artist: if your words are any good they will become illegal the artist should understand this too many don’t, and in their arrogant ignorance serve the class of men who rubber-stamp death sentences for the fellow colleagues of artists the artist who, like a combatant, …
Farewell to the God of Plague
Farewell to the God of PlaguePoem by Mao Zedong Brief note by editors: Mao wrote this poem after not being able to fall asleep, excited after hearing snail fever had been wiped out in Yukiang County. Centuries of feudal exploitation and imperialist domination, compounded by the spread of epidemics and disease, were in the course …
Countering Pessimistic Winds: Applied Revolutionary Optimism in China
Article by Mariposa Vermelha Editors note: Edits were made to this piece on 4/1/20 after an email requesting clarity over who Li Feng-lan was and what side she took during the 1976 counterrevolution–which was revealed to have been the left line by the original author. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) a great many …
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