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Written in 1975 by a collective led by James Boggs, A New Outlook on Health describes how healthcare developed in the US under capitalism and its consequence of alienating people from their own bodies. The original pamphlet was a call to action, to engage people, to organize and educate themselves to be active in their own health. An introduction and footnotes by the Redspark Collective provide an...

Cherukuri Rajkumar (1954-2010), popularly known as Azad, spokesperson of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), served the cause of Indian revolution for over thirty five years till he was murdered by state forces. This is a collection of his writings and interviews about the position of Indian Maoists on various political, economic and social issues. Foreword - 00:08 A Brief Biography - 04:26 1....

A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980's. Prologue: Maoism and Philosophy: 00:00:00 Chapter 1: The Terrain of Maoism-qua-Maoism: 00:33:56 Chapter 2: Science’s Dogmatic Shadow: 2:13:24 Chapter 3: The General Limits of Marxism-Leninism: 3:30:57...

Material Is A Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Journal For Contending Schools Of Revolutionary Thought Articles Included In Part 3: 00:00 Advance And Retreat: Sinn Fein And The "Compradorification" Of The Revolutionary Party - Owain Rhys Phillips 41:15 From The Archives: Excerpts From The Second Congress 1:22:44 Lenin And The War : Part 2 - T. Derbent materialjournal.net

Material Is A Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Journal For Contending Schools Of Revolutionary Thought Articles Included In Part 2: 00:00 "An Incurable Disease Called Hope": An Interview With Abdaljawad Omar - Part 2 56:14 The Working Of The Neo-Colonial Mind & Evading The Neo-Colonial Trap - K. Murali (Ajith) 1:41:28 The Universe As Vast As Our Longings - Benjanun Sriduangkaew materialjournal.net

Material Is A Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Journal For Contending Schools Of Revolutionary Thought Articles included in Part 1: 00:00 Editor's Note 04:53 The Immanent Garrison: Settlerism As Institutionalized Ideology - Joshua Moufawad-Paul 1:23:20 Position Of Innocence: Initial Thoughts On Settler Ideology And Victimhood In Canada - Alexandra Lepine 1:57:03 Kizilirmak - Hasan Huseyin Korkmazgil 1:58:4...

Material is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist journal for contending schools of revolutionary thought 00:00 Editor’s Note 09:47 Against Dogmatism, Against Historical Fetishism - Omar Dekhili 1:01:14 Fed Up - W. Muncer 1:02:17 The Marxist Framework and Attitude on Social Investigation and Class Analysis - Dani Manibat 1:59:22 A Dialectical Approach to Inner-Party Unity - Mao Zedong 2:05:32 Notes for a Crit...

This text analyzes the claims of Bob Avakian’s “New Synthesis,” the line of the RCP-USA party and its cultish degeneration. Against Avakianism is a powerful and systematic debunking of the idea promoted by Avakian that Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is outdated.

“Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", by Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperial colonialism, as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin's modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in "Das Kapital"

This short anthology comprises Mao’s key essays on organization and mass line, including “On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party”, “Combat Liberalism”, and “Rectify the Party’s Style of Work”, which offer ideological and theoretical insight and analysis into the complexities of organizational structures and practices. This collection addresses critical issues such as combatting bourgeois ideas,...

The First Time in History offers a firsthand account of life in Soviet Russia during a critical period of its history, from 1921 to 1923. Anna Louise Strong, a journalist who was politicized by the political upheavals in her time such as the Everett Massacre and the Seattle General strike, was invited to the USSR to document the work of building the world’s first socialist State. Her work of polit...

“On Contradiction” is Mao Zedong’s seminal text on dialectical materialism. Perhaps his most well-known work, it’s been read and studied by millions all over the world and is required reading for all those who seek to objectively analyze the world and struggle to solve the contradictions in it. The Redspark Collective prepared this study companion to assist readers by providing historical and mode...

In imperialist countries like the US, many oppose capitalism and are engaged in the struggle against its countless injustices. Far fewer are engaged with the intention and determination not only to win the protracted struggle, but to prepare ourselves in a systematic way for what we will need to construct in its place. Released as a pamphlet in the early 1970’s, Education To Govern is the result o...

Written in the 1970s by San Francisco Bay Area activist Vicki Legion, “Constructive Criticism” is an accessible resource for people who want to understand and implement the practice of criticism and self-criticism. The handbook is written with exercises and concrete examples, taking the reader through the process to internalize this critical practice in a step-by-step fashion. As Legion says, “A n...

“Marxism is a scientific theory that grasps the laws of the development of society and bases itself on practice for making history. Post-modernist thoughts stand against this, and any rational thinking. Revisionism, seen (posing) as Marxism, is a vulgarisation of the original, depriving it of its scientific essence, and making it, therefore, unattractive to those who desire change.”

“Marxism is a scientific theory that grasps the laws of the development of society and bases itself on practice for making history. Post-modernist thoughts stand against this, and any rational thinking. “Revisionism, seen (posing) as Marxism, is a vulgarisation of the original, depriving it of its scientific essence, and making it, therefore, unattractive to those who desire change.”

Written between 1965 and 1967 at a time when the Communist movement in India was at a crossroads between parliamentarism and the path of the people’s war, these Historic Eight Documents were the main ideological basis of the Naxalbari uprising. They continue to have a deep influence on those who persevered in waging this protracted struggle of over 50 years.

Since the economic crisis of 2008, the concept of social class emerged again as central in critical theory. Temporarily eclipsed in the metropoles by the focus on other sites of oppression, the possible return of class and class struggle to the centre of academic and activist discourse brings with it the same economism that other radical conceptions of politics seemed to displace. Politics in Comm...

Essays in part 2 include: The Maoist Party, The Working of the Neo-Colonial Mind, Politics of Liberation, among others.

Of Concepts and Methods is K. Murali’s new collection of essays, which covers a wide range of topics that are tied together by the author’s ongoing endeavor of “deepening the critique of mechanical thinking.” Written mostly in prison, these texts grapple with different trends of post modernism which have had a stranglehold on “new” thought for that last several decades, Chavismo and “21st Century...

Written in a time when the left in Turkey was divided on the question of a nation’s right to self-determination (i.e. the right to secede), Ibrahim Kaypakkaya’s essay was a concrete study of the Kurdish question and, more broadly, an analysis of the revolutionary standpoint towards national minorities. Still relevant today, this essay can help us understand current and ongoing national liberation...

Stand for Socialism against Modern Revisionism was published in 1992. It is a major document of the Second Rectification Movement and a counter to all the attacks on the socialist cause churned out by the imperialists and the petty bourgeois anti-communists in the aftermath of the rapid full restoration of capitalism in the revisionist-ruled countries.

Published in 1975 when the anti-revisionist movement in the US was upholding an openly homophobic line, this essay provided a scientific analysis of the “Gay Question.” Today, it teaches us how, beyond rejecting an incorrect line, the MLM still has to synthesize a proletarian line on the LGBT struggle based on the experiences in semi-colonies as well as imperialist countries.

This essay succinctly answers the question “Is China still socialist?” and tries to give an objective analysis of the reasons behind the defeat of socialism in China.

This compilation contains Mao Zedong’s most important philosophical writings, covering topics on dialectical materialism, the importance of practice, and how to differentiate between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions and how to resolve them.