KLASSENSTANDPUNKT: “Alongside the proletariat there exists classes and strata of classes, who stand in relative opposition to finance capital and have different kinds of contradictions with it. One of these are the petty bourgeoisie. This wavering class also generates its…
COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRAZIL: “Revisionism, therefore, finds one of its first manifestations in the change in world conception, in the abandonment of the proletarian (dialectical materialist) conception and in the assumption of others, whether bourgeois or petit-bourgeois…
COMMITTEE TO RECONSTITUTE THE COMMUNIST PARTY USA: “Only when armed with the correct ideological, political and organic line developed through the correct handling of the two-line struggle, the reconstitution effort will be invincible, no enemy can halt the march of our class…
GONZALO: “The Party is the axis of everything, it leads the three instruments in an all-round way, its own construction, it absolutely leads the army and the new State as a joint dictatorship aiming toward the dictatorship of the proletariat.”
MAO: “If there is to be revolution, there must be a revolutionary party. Without a revolutionary party, without a party built on the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary theory and in the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary style, it is impossible to lead the working class and the broad…
…they all have in common is that they reject the need of construction the Party “from the top”. Therefore they all clash with the fundamental principles confirmed in the theory and practice of the international proletariat, established by Lenin, over and over again.”
…different forms of political expressions. One of these are the almost countless number of artisan circles of the “radical left”. These circles sometimes raise the need to “reconstruct the CPG”…
…With all their differences these circles generally put forward a concept of “constructing the Party from below” and centre on the need of “unity” of as many circles as possible in different forms of “alliances”. What…
…of right and ‘left’ by seriously relying on dialectical materialism.”
—Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazil, “The New Democracy Revolution is the main
force of the World Proletarian Revolution” (December 2023).
MAO: “The Communists of Japan and Germany are defeatists with regard to the wars being waged by their countries. To bring about the defeat of the Japanese aggressors and of Hitler by every possible means is in the interests of the Japanese and the German people, and the more…
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It's wrong to say that anyone should work to "defeat their own country." What needs to be defeated is the Imperialist Occupying Regime. It is a work of the People against the Imperialist Class.
MAO: “The richest source of power to wage war lies in the masses of the people. It is mainly because of the unorganized state of the Chinese masses that Japan dares to bully us. When this defect is remedied, then the Japanese aggressor, like a mad bull crashing into a ring…
…To structure a revisionist line, revisionism will invariably have to falsify Marxist philosophy to create a ‘theoretical basis’ corresponding to its class betrayal. After all, it is impossible to sustain an opportunist line…
MAO: “Some people think that this is not true of certain contradictions. For instance, in the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the productive forces are the principal aspect; in the contradiction between theory and practice, practice…
STALIN: “The proletarian revolution, its movement, its sweep and its achievements acquire flesh and blood only through the dictatorship of the proletariat. The dictatorship of the proletariat is the instrument of the proletarian revolution, its organ, its most important…
NEW LABOR PRESS: “The vision of the labor movement presented by these headlines is a total falsehood, top to bottom. Trade union density in the US hit a historic low in 2023, with only 10% of all workers belonging to trade unions, down from 11.9% in 2010. Strike activity…
MARX & ENGELS: “In Germany, [the Communists] fight with the bourgeoisie whenever it acts in a revolutionary way, against the absolute monarchy, the feudal squirearchy, and the reactionary petty bourgeoisie.”
CPC: “Under the capitalist system, social production is carried on under competitive and anarchic conditions of production. The price of commodities fluctuates with the change in the supply-demand relationship. Sometimes it is higher than the production price and sometimes…
Stalin and Mao were social democrats in practice. Supporting them but not figures like Xi, Deng, Lula, etc. is a display of ideological inconsistency and a lack of seriousness.
🟡 BREAKING: Anti-communist dictator Alberto Fujimori is dead. For ten years starting in 1990, he ruled Peru with an iron fist, with ruthless crackdowns on the Maoist uprising. Especially Peru's indigenous population and women bore the brunt of his brutality.
THE WORKER: “Liquidationism does in fact hide behind the political line of the Revolutionary Maoist Coalition in the form of their arguments that put national ‘mass organizations’ before the question of reconstitution. This is a major mistaken idea…Simply put, there will be no…
KAYPAKKAYA: “After the revolution succeeded in the Soviet Union, the Bolsheviks unhesitatingly agreed to the secession of the Finns at their request (December 31, 1917). If the Finnish people hadn’t wanted to secede and if Finland had organized as a people’s republic…
MARX: “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past…
MEAD: “Unlike the ‘respectable’ left, we knew that revolution was an act of violence by which one class forcibly overthrows another. Indeed, when the Sixth Congress of the Bolshevik Party held its last pre-power congress in Petrograd on July 26, 1917, out of one hundred and…
NEW: 'March on DNC 2024' Protest Marshals Block Protesters From Approaching DNC Venue
As several thousand protesters took the streets of Chicago on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), an extended melee occurred as dozens of protest marshals physically
LENIN: “Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and…
STALIN: “The proletarian struggle is not, however, an uninterrupted advance, an unbroken chain of victories. The proletarian struggle also has its trials, its defeats. The genuine revolutionary is not one who displays courage in the period of a victorious uprising, but one…
KANAFANI: “If Nazism was responsible for terrorizing the Jews and forcing them out of Germany; it was "democratic" capitalism, in collaboration with the Zionist movement, that was responsible for directing comparatively large numbers of Jewish migrants to Palestine, as…
…of flames, will be surrounded by hundreds of millions of our people standing upright, the mere sound of their voices will strike terror into him, and he will be burned to death.”
—Mao Zedong, “On Protracted War” (May 1938)
…seventy-five delegates (representing one hundred and twelve organizations with 176,750 members), one hundred and seventy-one filled out a questionnaire about themselves: 110 delegates had spent a total of 245 years in prison; 10 delegates had spent a total of 41 years at…
STALIN: “Hence the necessity for a new party, a militant party, a revolutionary party, one bold enough to lead the proletarians in the struggle for power, sufficiently experienced to find its bearings amidst the complex conditions of a revolutionary situation, and…
…state enterprise must thoroughly carry this out. The enterprise must produce according to the plan regardless of profit.”
—Communist Party of China, “Fundamentals of Political Economy” (December 1975)
…is the principal aspect; in the contradiction between the economic base and the superstructure, the economic base is the principal aspect; and there is no change in their respective positions. This is the mechanical materialist conception, not the dialectical materialist…
…masses of the people in defeating imperialism and its running dogs.”
—Mao Zedong, “Revolutionary Forces of the World Unite, Fight Against Imperialist Aggression” (November 1948).
…complete the defeat the better.... For the wars launched by the Japanese aggressors and Hitler are harming the people at home as well as the people of the world.”
—Mao Zedong, “The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War” (October 1938).
…lower. When the price is higher than the production price, profit is higher than the average profit. When the capitalist sees this opportunity for higher profit, he will rush in to invest his capital in those more profitable sectors. In the opposite situation, capital will be…
…the smallest obstacle in the way of the desire for secession. That attitude was to the benefit of both the Finnish people and the revolution in the Soviet Union. That attitude consolidated the trust of the Finnish workers and peasants in the Soviet proletariat. In the years…
…1918-1920 when the civil war continued in the Soviet Union, the imperialists’ plans to attack the Soviet Union through Finland met with the resistance of the Finnish people. If the secession of the Finnish nation had been prevented despite their wish to do so, that attitude…
ILYENKOV: “In order to understand such self-evident things clearly, and to take them into consideration, it is not generally necessary to have Descartes’ mind; but it is necessary to have its analytical rigour in order to define the fact that thought and the world of things in…
…the superstructure in turn manifest themselves in the principal and decisive role. When it is impossible for the productive forces to develop without a change in the relations of production, then the change in the relations of production plays the principal and decisive role…
…of revolution forward? Lenin had been a train robber, and Stalin supported the movement by robbing banks. How could we do any less and still call ourselves revolutionaries?”
—Ed Mead, “Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead” (2015).
…in the USSR this, of course, would have been better, but the Finnish nation wanted to secede. In this situation it was necessary to either agree to secession or adopt a harmful policy of suppressing the aspiration by force. The Bolsheviks agreed to secession, not placing…
…hard labor; 24 delegates had spent a total of 73 years in penal settlements; 55 delegates had been in exile for a total of 127 years; 150 delegates had been arrested a total of 549 times. Who in Seattle’s ‘legitimate’ left was willing to risk imprisonment to move the cause…
…conception. True, the productive forces, practice and the economic base generally play the principal and decisive role; whoever denies this is not a materialist. But it must also be admitted that in certain conditions, such aspects as the relations of production, theory and…
…decisive. Are we going against materialism when we say this? No. The reason is that while we recognize that in the general development of history the material determines the mental and social being determines social consciousness, we also--and indeed must--recognize the…
…The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
—Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” (1852)
…line, method, plan or policy, the principal and decisive thing is to decide on a guiding line, method, plan or policy. When the superstructure (politics, culture, etc.) obstructs the development of the economic base, political and cultural changes become principal and…
…reaction of mental on material things, of social consciousness on social being and of the superstructure on the economic base. This does not go against materialism; on the contrary, it avoids mechanical materialism and firmly upholds dialectical materialism.”
…The creation and advocacy of revolutionary theory plays the principal and decisive role in those times of which Lenin said, "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." When a task, no matter which, has to be performed, but there is as yet no guiding…
MAO: “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous…
…even strikes at all, with UPS having zero work stoppages and the Big 3 auto manufacturers essentially carrying out a lockout via the UAW. (Meaning that instead of the workers deciding not to work until their demands were met, they were banned from working until they accepted…
DIMITROV: “Embryo American fascism is trying to direct the disillusionment and discontent of these masses into reactionary fascist channels. It is a peculiarity of the development of American fascism that at the present stage it comes forward principally in the guise of an…
…over the people. Basically speaking, it is consciously utilized by people to serve socialist construction. Furthermore, the effects of the law of value on social production have also been greatly restricted. Their concrete manifestations are as follows:
…Under the socialist system, social production is carried on in a planned manner. Prices are based on values and are determined by the state in a unified manner. Prices no longer fluctuate with supply-demand relationships. The law of value is no longer an alien force ruling…
…withdrawn. It is under these blind conditions that social production develops. These conditions demonstrate that the law of value under the capitalist system is manifested as an alien force working behind people’s backs and is the overall regulator of social production…
…was basically non-existent if measured by lost work days as a proportion of total work days. The percent of total working time lost to work stoppages was 0.04% in 2023, compared to 0.06% in 2000, 0.29% in 1970, and 0.38% in 1949. The highest profile ‘strikes’ actually weren’t…
…a company-dictated labor agreement.) Under extremely favorable labor market conditions, union incomes actually increased less than non-union incomes by multiple percentage points.”
—New Labor Press, “Political Economy of the American Labor Movement” (June 22, 2024).
…diverse non-communist organizations in any trench.”
—The Worker Editorial Board, “A Critique of New Labor Press: The Principal Task of Revolutionaries in the USA is Reconstituting the Communist Party, Expressed in the Current Task of Uniting Under Maoism” (July 4, 2024).
…who, while fighting well during the victorious advance of the revolution, also displays courage when the revolution is in retreat, when the proletariat suffers defeat; who does not lose his head and does not funk when the revolution suffers reverses, when the enemy achieves…
LENIN: “My principal material is Comrade Trotsky ’s pamphlet, ‘The Role and Tasks of the Trade Unions’. When I compare it with the theses he submitted to the Central Committee, and go over it very carefully, I am amazed at the number of theoretical mistakes and glaring blunders…
GONZALO: “The People’s War is the military theory of the international proletariat; in it are summarized, for the first time in a systematic and complete form, the theoretical and practical experience of the struggles, military actions, and wars waged by the proletariat, and…
…economic law of socialism [the satisfaction of the ever-increasing needs of the state and the people] and the law of planned development of the national economy. Based on the needs of the state and the people, the state plan stipulates what and how much to produce, and the…
…unifying force of the entire revolutionary movement, the revolutionary masses, and the fighters unless there is the Communist Party; if one expects a stand-in for this Party in the form of open democratic organizations, they make a big mistake. The Party is necessary for…
…Chairman Gonzalo. Development of correct politics, and better organization depends on grasping the ideology deeper, it is a process, which one moves closer and closer in the course of revolutionary activity depending on class struggle, the masses, criticism and self-criticism…
…strong unified organisms; the Party will generate these—these will not generate the Party. This holds true for all stages in a dialectical contention, a unity of opposites. This is why communists in formation must consolidate among themselves before making big progress in the…
…to victory, every quota will be paid, and every debt collected in the glorious peoples war led by the reconstituted, militarized Communist Party, a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, principally Maoist Communist Party which grasps and applies the universal contributions of…
LENIN: “[T]he essential thing is to begin at once to learn from actual practice: have no fear of these trial attacks. They may, of course, degenerate into extremes, but that is an evil of the morrow, whereas the evil today is our inertness, our doctrinaire spirit, our learned…
Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky, weren’t like: “let’s encourage unarmed workers to just start fuckin shit up ya know? That’ll go over well.” Like tf when one of them got sent to prison it was a PROBLEM not some badge of honor. The intense periods of repression they experienced
…There are no smooth straight paths, the road is difficult. Only by confronting one’s own mistakes with neither cynicism or attachment can the task of correction be realized.”
…success; who does not become panic-stricken or give way to despair when the revolution is in a period of retreat.”
—Joseph Stalin, “Trotskyism or Leninism” (November 19, 1924)
…immobility, and our senile fear of initiative. Let every group learn, if it is only by beating up policemen: a score or so victims will be more than compensated for by the fact that this will train hundreds of experienced fighters, who tomorrow will be leading…
S. MAZUR: “‘Maoist’ Third Worldism asserts that revolution is only possible in the Third World and can only surround the first world and impose war from outside. This is nothing short of a militarist and political fantasy, one which poses no conception of the movement…
…First production in the socialist state enterprise is not subject to fluctuations according to the level of prices and the magnitude of profit. Production is not regulated by the law of value, but rather by the national economic plan formulated according to the fundamental…
MAO: “I have said that all the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? I also said that the tsar of Russia, the emperor of China and Japanese…
…certain stage in its development, it creates a special organ in the form of the dictatorship of the proletariat as its principle mainstay.”
—Joseph Stalin, “The Foundations of Leninism” (1924)
LENIN: “At the same time as Pravda published its articles on “controversial issues”, Luch printed a lengthy article on the same subject. Not a single fact is cited in the article, the author does not attach any social significance at all to the dispute and does not call the…
New Labor Press just released a response to "The Worker" news, which should be read and studied by all US revolutionaries. What should be especially grasped are the "3 Do's and 3 Don'ts"
On Renegades and Revolutionaries
…defeat the bourgeoisie, can overthrow its power, even without the dictatorship of the proletariat. But the revolution will be unable to crush the resistance of the bourgeoisie, to maintain its victory and to push forward to the final victory of socialism unless, at a…
…opposition to fascism, which it accuses of being an “un-American” trend imported from abroad… American fascism tries to portray itself as the custodian of the Constitution and “American democracy.””
MAO: “In battle, one army is victorious and the other is defeated, both the victory and the defeat are determined by internal causes. The one is victorious either because it is strong or because of its competent generalship, the other is vanquished either because it is weak…
LENIN: “And there is only one way of smashing the resistance of those classes, and that is to find, in the very society which surrounds us, the forces which can—and, owing to their social position, must—constitute the power capable of sweeping away the old and creating the new,…
…mainstay, brought into being for the purpose of, firstly, crushing the resistance of the overthrown exploiters and consolidating the achievements of the proletarian revolution, and secondly, carrying the revolution to the complete victory of socialism. The revolution can…
…illustrated by the following: of 2,562,000 Jews that fled Nazi persecution, the U.S.A. accepted only 170,000 (6.6%), Britain 50,000 (1.9%), while Palestine received 8.5% and 1,930,000 (75.2%) found refuge in the U.S.S.R.”
LENIN: “At present, this question ranks first in importance and urgency. First, the state cannot carry on any economic development unless the army and the urban workers have regular and adequate supplies of food; the exchange of commodities must become the principal means of…
…are to blame for it all because they are afraid of losing their influence if the broad masses of the workers enter into the dispute. What the author and the newspaper that published his article are aiming at is to pack people’s heads with gossip, squabbles and…
…or because of its incompetent generalship; it is through internal causes that external causes become operative. In China in 1927, the defeat of the proletariat by the big bourgeoisie came about through the opportunism then to be found within the Chinese proletariat itself…
…(inside the Chinese Communist Party). When we liquidated this opportunism, the Chinese revolution resumed its advance. Later, the Chinese revolution again suffered severe setbacks at the hands of the enemy, because adventurism had risen within our Party. When we liquidated…
…imperialism were all paper tigers. As we know, they were all overthrown. U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atom bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.”
MAO: “Communism is at once a complete system of proletarian ideology and a new social system. It is different from any other ideological and social system, and is the most complete, progressive, revolutionary and rational system in human history. The ideological and social…