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…

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Avakianism is a powerful and systematic debunking of the idea promoted by Avakian that Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is outdated.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/suppo…

“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 Kapit…

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 c…

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 th…

“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 …

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…

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 practi…

“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, unattra…

“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, unattr…

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…

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 conception…

Essays in part 2 include: The Maoist Party, The Working of the Neo-Colonial Mind, Politics of Liberation, among others. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support

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 …

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 u…

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 countr…

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 we…

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.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support

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.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/supp…

Essays in part 2 include: Rectify Errors and Rebuild the Party, Program for a People’s Democratic Revolution, and Declaration of the New People’s Army--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support

The essay included in part 1 is: Philippine Society and Revolution--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support

The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions is a 1906 booklet by Rosa Luxemburg that evaluates the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution, poses them as an analogy for German socialists to learn from, and argues for a political mass strike.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support…

This compilation includes the most important documents of the Organization of Iranian People’s Fedai Guerrillas, which conducted armed struggle against the Iranese State in the 1970’s.It includes a new introduction by Ashraf Dehghani to Massoud Ahmadzadeh’s “Armed Struggle: Both a Strategy and a Tactic”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.s…

The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions is a 1906 booklet by Rosa Luxemburg that evaluates the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution, poses them as an analogy for German socialists to learn from, and argues for a political mass strike.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support…

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 te…

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 te…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fore…

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 t…

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. --- Support this …

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 t…

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 t…

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. --- Support this …

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. --- Support this …

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 studyin…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/su…

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 studyin…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/su…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.c…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/su…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support…

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support…

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 politica…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support…

"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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.s…

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…

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…

"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. I…

"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 w…