Subscribe via RSS
Unity & Struggle
Juergen on Celebrate the 100th Internatio… Harsh Thakor on The Quest for the Truth About… Tom Burke on Prisoner of the U.S. empire: C… mark h on Electoral Politics: Imperialis… mark h on Electoral Politics: Imperialis… Mike E on Electoral Politics: Imperialis… Mike E on Electoral Politics: Imperialis… carldavidson on Electoral Politics: Imperialis… The Marxist-Leninist on Electoral Politics: Imperialis… Stansfield Smith on Electoral Politics: Imperialis… Mike E on Electoral Politics: Imperialis… benoît Élie on Norman Bethune: “Wounds… Bill Johnson on Communist Party of Greece (KKE… B S Raju on Long Live the Universal Contri… willy bravo on New People’s Army wipes… - Marxism-Leninism Study Guide
- Stalin and the Chinese Revolution
- Study Guide: Overview of Marxism-Leninism, the Science of Revolution
- Langston Hughes: Goodmorning Stalingrad!
- Long Live the Universal Contributions of Comrade Joseph Stalin
- Some points on Stalin (and Mao)
- Against Trotskyism: A Reading Guide
- Malcolm X on John Brown
- About This Site
- The Chinese Economy in 1978
Fight Back! News
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Colombia Action Network
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Network to Fight for Economic Justice
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Index
Afghanistan Ahmad Sa'adat anti-imperialism anti-revisionism Anti-War / Anti-Intervention Armed Struggle Barack Obama Black Liberation Carlos Montes Class Struggle Colombia Colombia Action Network Committee to Stop FBI Repression Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) Communist Party of the Philippines CPGB-ML CPN-Maoist CPP crisis DPRK economic crisis FARC-EP Fight Back! Freedom Road Socialist Organization FRSO Gaza Gloria M. Arroyo guerrilla warfare Harry Haywood Imperialism Iraq Israel John McCain Jose Maria Sison Kosta Harlan Labor Movement Latin America Lenin Mao Maoist Thought Marxism-Leninism Mass Line National Democratic Front of the Philippines National Liberation national oppression national question Nepal New Democracy New People's Army Palestine People's War PFLP Philippines police repression political economy political prisoners political repression Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Prachanda Protracted People's War racism Republic Windows and Doors Revolution Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army sds self-determination Socialism South Asia Stalin Students for a Democratic Society theory Tom Burke Trade Unions video ZionismBlog Stats
- 1,369,095 hits
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Unite!
Tag Archives: Marx
Red Shadow – The Economics Rock and Roll Band: Understanding Marx
Posted in Marxism-Leninism, Music
Tagged Lenin, Mao, Marx, Marxism, music, political economy, video
Revolution in the Philippines and Marxist-Leninist Study
I have put together a comprensive study guide, broken up by subject, and shorter list of ten essential classics of Marxism-Leninism, all with the intention of making Marxist theory accessible, comprehensible, and practical, so that it may be used as weapon in the class struggle. In the same vein, here is an excerpt from Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as Guide to the Philippine Revolution by Armando Liwanag, Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (1993) that also sheds some light on questions of Marxist study.
In 1959, a few young men and women, independent of the old merger party of the Communist and Socialist Parties, started forming study circles to read and study the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong that could be gotten from secret collections. They initially did so amidst the open and legal studies about the problems of national independence and democracy. The Marxist-Leninist works that they read included the Communist Manifesto, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Wages, Prices and Profit, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Two Tactics of Social Democracy, State and Revolution, The Foundations of Leninism, the Analysis of Classes in Chinese Society and Talks at the Yenan Forum on Art and Literature.
The most avid students of Marxism-Leninism read and studied Das Kapital, The Dialectics of Nature, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, History of the CPSU (Bolsheviks), Short Course; the first edition of the Soviet-published Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism and the Selected Works of Mao Zedong. The volumes of the selected works of the great communists began to reach the Philippines in 1962. To get hold of Marxist reading materials in the period of 1959-62 was by itself an achievement in view of the anticommunist hysteria and repressive measures since the end of World War II.
The objective of the beginners in the study of Marxism-Leninism was to seek solutions to what they perceived as the fundamental problems of the Filipino people, use Marxism-Leninism to shed light on the history and concrete circumstances of the Filipino people and find ways to resume the Philippine revolution and carry it out until victory. In the study of Marxism-Leninism, with special reference to the Philippine revolution, they sought to grasp the three components of Marxism, which are materialist philosophy, political economy and scientific socialism as laid down by Marx and Engels, developed by Lenin and Stalin and further developed by Mao Zedong.
The beginners in the study of proletarian revolutionary theory were exceedingly receptive to Mao’s teachings because of their proven correctness and success in so vast a country neighboring the Philippines and their recognized applicability to the Philippines. The most read works of Mao Zedong were On Contradiction, On Practice, the Analysis of Classes in Chinese Society, The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War, Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan, On Protracted People’s War and On New Democracy.
The fruits of this study, theoretically, is to be found in the analysis that the CPP developed. See the CPP History page and the CPP Documents page at philippinerevolution.net.
Posted in Books, Classics, Marxism-Leninism, Philippines, Theory
Tagged Armando Liwanag, Communist Party of the Philippines, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Marx, Marxism-Leninism, People's War, Philippines, Revolution, Stalin, study guide, theory
Ten Essential Classics of Marxism-Leninism
This is a suplement to my more extensive Marxist-Leninist study guide. Whereas that study guide is broken down by subject, highlighting some of the key texts of scientific socialism within those subjects, this supplement is simply a collection of what I believe are 10 essential works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.
- Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx
- Socialism: Utopian & Scientific by Frederick Engels
- What Is To Be Done? by V. I. Lenin
- Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by V. I. Lenin
- The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin
- The Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism by J. V. Stalin
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR by J. V. Stalin
- On Practice by Mao Zedong
- On Contradiction by Mao Zedong
Michael Parenti: Capitalism’s Self-inflicted Apocalypse
The following article is by Michael Parenti:
After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the system that would prevail unto the end of history.
The present economic crisis, however, has convinced even some prominent free-marketeers that something is gravely amiss. Truth be told, capitalism has yet to come to terms with several historical forces that cause it endless trouble: democracy, prosperity, and capitalism itself, the very entities that capitalist rulers claim to be fostering.
Posted in Political Economy
Tagged Marx, Marxism-Leninism, Michael Parenti, political economy
Capitalism in Crisis: 160 years after the Communist Manifesto
By Freedom Road Socialist Organization
“Modern bourgeois society,” wrote Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in the Communist Manifesto, “with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”
Marx and Engels, the founders of the modern communist movement, wrote those prophetic words in 1848, on the eve a great wave of social revolution that changed the face of Europe. Today, 160 years later, we are witnessing the deepest crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s. The words of the Manifesto ring out just as true as ever and the scientific principles of Marxism-Leninism are affirmed.
Posted in Books, FRSO, Marxism-Leninism, Political Economy, Theory
Tagged crisis, Engels, FRSO, Mao, Marx, political economy, Revolution
Study Guide: Political Economy of Capitalism and Imperialism
This a section of M-L Study Guide. The other sections are found here: https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/study-guide/
“The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.” – Marx & Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx
- Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by V. I. Lenin
Supplementary readings
- Value, Price and Profit by Karl Marx
- Capital by Karl Marx
- Anti-Dühring (Part II: Political Economy) by Frederick Engels
- Marx’s Economic Doctrine by V. I. Lenin
- Outbreak and Causes of the Imperialist War from the History of the CPSU – Short Course
Theory and Tactics of the Bolshevik Party on the Question of War, Peace and Revolution from the History of the CPSU – Short Course - Political Economy: A Beginner’s Course by A. Leontiev (PDFs of chapters 1, 2, and 3)
- Imperialism, the Eve of the Socialist Revolution of the Proletariat (Chapter 9 of Leontiev’s Political Economy)
- Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti
- Imperialist Globalization and the United States by Steff Yorek and Mick Kelly for the National Executive Committee of FRSO
- Capitalism in Crisis: 160 years after the Communist Manifesto by Freedom Road Socialist Organization
- On the Capitalist Crisis videos of a talk by Harpal Brar
Comments Off on Study Guide: Political Economy of Capitalism and Imperialism
Posted in Imperialism, Political Economy, Study Guide
Tagged A. Leontiev, economic crisis, Engels, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Lenin, Marx
Study Guide: Overview of Marxism-Leninism, the Science of Revolution
This a section of M-L Study Guide. The other sections are found here: https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/study-guide/
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” – Marx & Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism by V.I. Lenin
- The Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin
- 1999 Declaration of the International Communist Seminar
Supplemental readings
- Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx & Engels
- Principles of Communism by Frederick Engels
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels
- Frederick Engels by V.I. Lenin
- The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by V. I. Lenin
- Programme of the Communist International (1929)
- Introducing The Communist by Mao Zedong
- How to Be a Good Communist by Liu Shaoqi
- Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster
- Unity Statement of Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Comments Off on Study Guide: Overview of Marxism-Leninism, the Science of Revolution
Posted in Classics, Marxism-Leninism, Study Guide
Tagged Class Struggle, Engels, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, International Communist Seminar, Lenin, Leninism, Mao, Marx, Marxism, Revolution, Socialism, Stalin