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Utilizing the term “critique” in the philosophical sense implied by Kant, Sartre, Mbembe, and others, J. Moufawad-Paul offers an exacting analysis of the different trends that emerged out of the victory, development, and ultimate defeat of the Chinese revolution. Markedly and intentionally different from a polemic, Critique of Maoist Reason is a text for all who consider themselves “Maoists,” as it clarifies and contextualizes various modes of thought within or associated with Maoism. Moufawad-Paul’s latest contribution satisfies its intention to sharpen Maoist thinking through rigorous investigation.

“J. Moufawad-Paul’s Critique of Maoist Reason is an important book which should be interesting and useful even for non-Maoist leftists. However, the study of this book is essential for Maoists, since it paints a comprehensive picture of the whole international Maoist movement and its different divisions and tendencies; this, and similar efforts that help clarify the situation, can and must contribute to the struggle for uniting the international Maoist movement. Although some of this book’s issues warrant further discussion–which comes with anything new that is worth discussion–I recommend this book to all Maoists and non-Maoists.” – Zia, Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan

Utilizing the term “critique” in the philosophical sense implied by Kant, Sartre, Mbembe, and others, J. Moufawad-Paul offers an exacting analysis of the different trends that emerged out of the victory, development, and ultimate defeat of the Chinese revolution. Markedly and intentionally different from a polemic, Critique of Maoist Reason is a text for all who consider themselves “Maoists,” as it clarifies and contextualizes various modes of thought within or associated with Maoism. Moufawad-Paul’s latest contribution satisfies its intention to sharpen Maoist thinking through rigorous investigation.

Seamus Costello was the founder of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).

Declaring as a principle, “I owe my allegiance only to the working class,” he is considered the most important republican socialist after James Connolly.

La Stratégie pour la Libération de la Palestine est un document idéologique, politique et organisationnel qui a été préparé pour le Deuxième Congrès du FPLP en février 1969. Il analyse les forces révolutionnaires et les forces de l'ennemi, propose une analyse de classe et montre quelles sont les perspectives pour la révolution en Palestine. Cette traduction française inédite contient une nouvelle introduction.

The following document was published by the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine in February 1969. It was translated at that time by the PFLP Information Department and widely circulated in English and other languages.

This comprehensive political and organizational document was prepared by the Second Congress of the PFLP.

La Stratégie pour la Libération de la Palestine est un document idéologique, politique et organisationnel qui a été préparé pour le Deuxième Congrès du FPLP en février 1969. Il analyse les forces révolutionnaires et les forces de l'ennemi, propose une analyse de classe et montre quelles sont les perspectives pour la révolution en Palestine. Cette traduction française inédite contient une nouvelle introduction.

La Stratégie pour la Libération de la Palestine est un document idéologique, politique et organisationnel qui a été préparé pour le Deuxième Congrès du FPLP en février 1969. Il analyse les forces révolutionnaires et les forces de l'ennemi, propose une analyse de classe et montre quelles sont les perspectives pour la révolution en Palestine. Cette traduction française inédite contient une nouvelle introduction.

The following document was published by the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine in February 1969. It was translated at that time by the PFLP Information Department and widely circulated in English and other languages.

This comprehensive political and organizational document was prepared by the Second Congress of the PFLP.

The following document was published by the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine in February 1969. It was translated at that time by the PFLP Information Department and widely circulated in English and other languages.

This comprehensive political and organizational document was prepared by the Second Congress of the PFLP.

The Activist Study (Araling Aktibista), or ARAK as it’s known, is part of the required study for activists in the Filipino revolutionary movement. The study includes Mao Zedong’s Five Golden Rays, along with lessons on Revolutionary Study and Analysis, the Mass Line, and Democratic Centralism and the Committee System–all essential texts for studying and forming revolutionary practice.

Ce "Cours de Base" a été rédigé par le Parti communiste d'Inde (maoïste) afin qu'il serve de guide d'étude pour leurs cadres. Avec des chapitres concis, il donne un aperçu de l'histoire du marxisme-léninisme-maoïste et du mouvement communiste international.

The Activist Study (Araling Aktibista), or ARAK as it’s known, is part of the required study for activists in the Filipino revolutionary movement. The study includes Mao Zedong’s Five Golden Rays, along with lessons on Revolutionary Study and Analysis, the Mass Line, and Democratic Centralism and the Committee System–all essential texts for studying and forming revolutionary practice.

Ce "Cours de Base" a été rédigé par le Parti communiste d'Inde (maoïste) afin qu'il serve de guide d'étude pour leurs cadres. Avec des chapitres concis, il donne un aperçu de l'histoire du marxisme-léninisme-maoïste et du mouvement communiste international.

This is a text written by Anuradha Ghandy, also known as Avanti. She was spearheading the proletarian feminist movement in India, and was a Central Committee member of the underground Communist Party of India (Maoist). This text is considered to be one of the seminal proletarian feminist texts.

This document is written by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and is used as a study guide for their cadre.  It is an exemplary summary and outline of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the history of the International Communist Movement.  

Ce "Cours de Base" a été rédigé par le Parti communiste d'Inde (maoïste) afin qu'il serve de guide d'étude pour leurs cadres. Avec des chapitres concis, il donne un aperçu de l'histoire du marxisme-léninisme-maoïste et du mouvement communiste international.

This document is written by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and is used as a study guide for their cadre.  It is an exemplary summary and outline of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the history of the International Communist Movement.  

This document is written by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and is used as a study guide for their cadre.  It is an exemplary summary and outline of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the history of the International Communist Movement

According to most historians, "until 1938, there was no organized resistance in Germany".  Its birth in 1939 is often attributed to aristocrats and the big bourgeoisie.  As for the workers, according to David Schoenbaum, "they failed, in any effective sense, to produce resistance.  Their marginal protest in the years 1933-39 was economic, not political, a matter of wages and hours not, it seems, of fundamental opposition."

So what happened to the powerful German Communist Party then?  When the KPD was banned, its paramilitary formations numbered over 100,000 members.  The Antifa league had 250,000 members.  Nazi repression left activists who had been unable or unwilling to leave Germany with a choice between three mindsets.  Some, discouraged by the terrible defeat of the communist movement, deprived of leadership and intimidated by state terror, abandoned the struggle, and a small number collaborated with the regime.  But tens of thousands of communists adopted a position of resistance.  Party structures crumbled, cadres were imprisoned or exiled, sympathizers were watched.  But clandestine Party organizations were reconstituted very quickly, to be generally just as quickly dismantled...and rebuilt again.  This book tells the forgotten story of this communist resistance.  

Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer was written by Jose Maria Sison from his prison cell in 1981-1982. It is a comprehensive and modern introduction to the study of the three components of Marxism.

"Cet essai offre une réponse claire et directe à la question "La Chine est-elle toujours socialiste ?" en donnant une analyse objective des raisons de la défaite du socialisme en Chine."

Repenser le Socialisme par Deng-yuan Hsu et Pao-yu Ching, édité en français par Éditions en Langues Étrangères, 2020

How can a country that developed the most advanced socialist society in the history of the world change directions so quickly and so completely? In From Victory to Defeat Pao-yu Ching dissects this question, providing economic analysis of what it means to actually “build socialism” with all of the necessary contradictions and obstacles that must be overcome.

Addressing seven commonly asked questions, Pao-yu Ching gives accesible explanations to the complicated issues China faced in its socialist transition and the material basis for its capitalist reversal.

The Communist Necessity is a polemical interrogation of the practice of “social movementism” that has enjoyed a normative status at the centres of capitalism. Moufawad-Paul argues that a refusal to recognize contemporary revolutionary movements from the 1980’s to the present results in the reification of capitalist “end of history” discourse within this movementist conceptualization of theory and practice.

The Communist Necessity sketches out the boundaries of the movementist terrain, as well as its contemporary ideologues, so as to raise questions that may be uncomfortable for those who are still devoted to movementist praxis, particularly if they define themselves as Marxist. Aware of his past affinity with social movementism and some apprehension of the problem of communist orthodoxy, the author argues that the recognition of communism’s necessity “requires a new return to the revolutionary communist theories and experiences won from history.”

"Urban Perspective" is a document issued in the time of the unity congress of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).  It identifies, analyses, and proposes solutions to the recruiting weakness of the naxalite movement in India: how to build the revolutionary movement in the cities, far from their strongholds and liberated zones in the countryside.  In this document, Indian comrades systematically analyse the kinds of work they need to do in each sector, the strategy, tactics and methodology, and how to put their theory into practice.  

"From the great treasury of Marxism-Leninism, we draw basic principles and historical lessons to shed light on the people's war that we are waging.  But these are of general value; they are a general guide to our action.  To rest content with them, without integrating them with our concrete practice, is to turn them into lifeless dogma.  To dispense with them is to engage in blind action"