This article was originally published by the Maoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons on their website, Prisoncensorship.info. While many of our readers write to us to express the lack of consciousness and unity in the prisons where they are held, one USW comrade pointed out in ULK 31 h realization that ULK is a venue where conscious prisoners can come together and […]
Category Archives: Maoism
April
19
Mini-Review and Commentary on Zak Cope’s ‘Divided World, Divided Class.’
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Divided World, Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism is the first full-length title in over a decade to feature a Third Worldist analysis of modern political economy. It was published in September 2012 by the independent publisher Kersplebledeb and has already been reviewed by several leftist writers, including Matthijus Krul, […]
April
15
RAIM: An Open Letter Against First Worldism in the ICM
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Bangla, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish translations included.
April
04
Editorial: The two political dimensions of Maoism (Third Worldism)
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Maoism (Third Worldism) is a controversial yet growing trend of Marxist political economy. It contends a vast majority of workers in imperialist centers, through the machinations of capital accumulation and historically ingrained forms of oppression (from which they benefit), receive wages which are above the monetary rate of labor value. These First World workers are, […]
Four points on Hugo Chavez, Bourgeois Nationalism, the United Front, Socialism, and the Struggle for Communism.
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The news of the recent passing of Hugo Chavez has swept through nominally leftist circles over the past week. Due to his leading stature in contemporary anti-hegemonic struggles, many organizations and websites (including Anti-Imperialism.com) posted commemorations. Now that the news has settled, Chavez’s death affords and demands a discussion on various aspects of the revolutionary […]
Matthijs Krul: Book Review: Zak Cope’s “Divided World Divided Class”
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There are times when one encounters a book that is frustrating in a way particular to the intellectual life: that is to say, when one encounters a book that is precisely the book one wanted to write. Given the relative obscurity of my interests, this does not happen often to me, but Zak Cope’s Divided World, […]
January
25
Editorial: Kasama inadvertently promotes capitalist road in Nepal
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The reformed Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) recently held its seventh general convention. It was the first such event since it formally split from the revisionist Unified Communist Party of Nepal last summer. During and immediately after the convention, the CPN-Maoist vowed to carry forth a strategy of ‘people’s revolt.’ They also took the opportunity […]
January
14
New Third Worldist Webforum: R/peoplesliberation
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Comrades, Today is the opening day of the second semester of People’s Liberation University, a series of local and online study groups initiated by comrades associated with Anti-Imperialist.com. Along with the re-opening of PLU, we are pleased to announce that we creating an ‘open campus’ environment where anyone (with some obvious qualifications) can participate. The […]
December
25
Beginning January 14th: Winter Semester of People’s Liberation University.
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People’s Liberation University will be launching its winter semester on January 14th, 2013. All genuine groups and individuals are welcome to participate. People’s Liberation University promotes an environment of critical inquiry and radical discussion and aims to train a new generation of anti-imperialist radical intellectuals. Last semester during the Fall of 2012, we held two […]
December
07
MIM(Prisons) review of Divided World Divided Class
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It is with great pleasure that we announce a new release that MIM(Prisons) is adding to the labor aristocracy section of our must-read list. Divided World Divided Class by Zak Cope contributes up-to-date economic analysis and new historical analysis to the MIM line on the labor aristocracy. I actually flipped through the bibliography before reading the book […]
Commodification and democratization of bourgeois privilege vis–à–vis the expansion of personal services under imperialism
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Marx defined productive labor as that which produces surplus value. Under these conditions, laborers whose work does not produce surplus value for a capitalist are not exploited in any technical sense. Not so much Marx’s error, but that of whose who claim his legacy, is to conflate the realization of value with the production of […]
MIM(Prisons): Voting is a Pro-Imperialist Strategy
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In the shadow of the recent presidential election, MIM(Prisons) takes this opportunity to explain some of the many reasons we don’t participate in elections under capitalism. We reiterate the MIM slogan: Don’t Vote, Organize! Granted, communists might participate in local elections when they find an opportunity to make change that will better facilitate their organizing work […]
What is Maoism-Third Worldism?
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Maoism-Third Worldism is a theoretical culmination of historical revolutionary practice, a science of understanding the world so as to change it. It is the Marxism of today. Maoism-Third Worldism includes several historical and new paradigmatic shifts in understandings regarding class struggle. These include: All hitherto history is the history of class struggle! Maoism-Third Worldism reaffirms […]
The General Characteristics of Imperialism (c. 1997-2000)
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The following document was published by the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist and sourced from BannedThought.net. As always, reposting here is for educational and discussion purposes and does not imply endorsement, affiliation, or agreement. With the advent of monopolies, the question of what is capitalism and what is its nature began to be discussed. While Engels was aware of the […]
Amilcar Cabral’s Theory of Class Suicide and Revolutionary Socialism
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This following was written by Thomas Meisenhelder. As always, reposting here is for critical discussion and does not imply, agreement, endorsement, or affiliation. Cabral’s ‘The Weapon of Theory’ will be read and discussed as part of the National Liberation and Neo-Liberalism 101 course during the second semester (beginning in January) of People’s Liberation University. This is a most difficult time […]
Whither China (1968)
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The following document, referred to as The Shengwulian Manifesto, was published in 1968 by the Hunan Provincial Revolutionary Great Alliance Committee, and was part of the far-left of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Much of the actual document may be lost on those with little background in Chinese history. Likewise, something is likely lost in translation as well. But to summarize, […]
Reformation of RIM?
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The following resolutions adopted by a meeting of Maoist parties held earlier this year reflect a growing trend in calling for the reformation of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement. Posting the following documents, while not implying endorsement, affiliation, or full agreement, does relate to the need to study developments in the international arena of revolutionary forces. […]
Mao, ‘Cadres’
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“Cadres are a decisive factor, once the political line is determined. Therefore, it is our fighting task to train large numbers of new cadres in a planned way.”
Spanish Maoists call for a reassessment of the Lin Biao incident
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Responding to a recent statement by Italian, India, and Afghan groups calling for a new international conference of Maoist organizations, the Spanish group Gran Marcha Hacia el Comunismo (Long March Towards Communism) declared their support while offering a few suggestions on topics to discuss, including the “question of Lin Biao and the reasons for his […]
Understanding and Changing: A discussion with Zak Cope, author of ‘Divided World, Divided Class,’ on the stratification of labour under global capitalism
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Zak Cope is the author of Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism, which was just published this past August by Kersplebedeb Press as part of their recently launched Kalikot series. The book “charts the history of the ‘labour aristocracy’ in the capitalist world system, from its roots […]
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