I intend to create an MLM library organizing the collected works of various MLM theorists so they can be referenced easily. Please post any works that would contribute towards this endeavor Updates to the MLM Library will be posted here. Update 1# Sunday, March 17 2013. The Library is started and the Kevin Rashid section is added
The Classics and Relevant Historical Works
Modern Library of Marxist Leninist Maoism Collected Works of Kevin Rashid Johnson On Sexism and Feminism: http://rashidmod.com/2012/12/09/wimy...feminism-2008/ A Practical Approach to Strategic Organizing for Popular Struggle http://rashidmod.com/2010/12/08/a-pr...ular-struggle/ The New Afrikan Black Panther Party’s Organizational Principles, Policy and Practice: The 3-P’s http://rashidmod.com/2012/12/06/the-...tice-the-3-ps/ Reparations or Revolution? (2007) http://rashidmod.com/2012/12/02/repa...volution-2007/ On the Questions of Race and Racism: Revolutionary National Liberation and Building the United Front Against Imperialism http://rashidmod.com/2011/05/20/on-t...t-imperialism/ What is Fascism? http://rashidmod.com/2010/12/08/what-is-fascism/ Unity-Struggle-Transformation: On Revolutionary Organization, Leadership and Cadre Development http://rashidmod.com/2012/01/20/unit...e-development/
Controversies in the Maoist Movement
Documents from the Cultural Revolution
If you're looking for documents from the Cultural Revolution still, I think I can be of some help. English translations of primary sources from the Cultural Revolution: Lotta, Raymond, ed. And Mao Makes 5: Mao Tse-tung's Last Great Battle. Banner Press, 1978. - I have read this book myself. It's a collection of mostly newspaper articles from the later Cultural Revolution era with Lotta's commentary. His main argument is that Mao was a supporter of the Gang of 4's activities and approach to revolution and thus Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping were opposed to Mao's revolutionary line. Cheek, Timothy, ed. Mao Zedong and China's Revolutions: A Brief History with Documents. Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. -A brief collection of primary documents that's a good introductory text. Fan, K.H., ed. Chinese Cultural Revolution: Selected Documents. Grove Press, 1968. - It's a tad bit outdated but it may be interesting to see what was included in it. I'm yet to get my hands on a copy. Firsthand accounts of the Cultural Revolution by American witnesses and Chinese people who experienced it: (warning: these are not gonna be all positive accounts by any means but I find they are the most balanced, interesting, and reliable from my experience.) Li, Zhensheng. Red-Color News Soldier. Phaidon Press, 2003. - This is literally as good as it gets in my opinion for English-language memoirs by Chinese people on the Cultural Revolution. It is a collection of visually striking and amazing photographs taken by the author during the Cultural Revolution (he was a photojournalist for a provincial newspaper) coupled with his comments and life story. Hinton, William. The Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. Monthly Review Press, 1972. - I right away recommend this to anyone who is interested in learning about the Cultural Revolution. American communist William Hinton traveled to China many times in his life. He went to the PRC in 1969 to interview the professors, students, and their families of Qinghua University, a technical university in Beijing and one of China's top universities to this day, about the revolutionary upheaval on campus during the Cultural Revolution. It is fascinating and empowering. Read it! Various authors. China! Inside the People's Republic. Bantam, 1972. - This is the account of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars' visit to the PRC in 1971. The committee was a group of American university professors in the social sciences and humanities who specialized in Asia. They formed in the late 1960s in opposition to the bourgeois-liberal academic establishment in America. They were vocally against the Vietnam War and many of them were involved in communist organizations. They even visited North Vietnam during the war and created a journal in which leftist Asia scholars could voice their opinions and scholarship against the pro-imperialist scholars that dominate Western academics. The committee has renamed and is still around, still publishing their journal, taking shots at U.S. imperialist policies in Asia. I hope this helps.
Here are links to two good books The Battle for China's past by Mobo Gao http://www.strongwindpress.com/pdfs/...hinas_Past.pdf From Marx to Mao Tse-tung: A Study in Revolutionary Dialectics, by George Thomson http://www.bannedthought.net/MLM-The...o/Marx2Mao.pdf
If people are interested in the development of Mao's thought as well as his life story, I can recommend the following: Schram, Stuart. The Thought of Mao Tse-tung. Cambridge University Press, 1989. - This is the quintessential scholarly work on the history and development of the most important concepts in Mao's thought. Stuart Schram is the single greatest scholar to have dedicated his life to the study of Mao's thought. His has an amazingly keen eye for details, a holistic approach to the subject, and a virtually impenetrable fair, balanced view. Karl, Rebecca E. Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History. Duke University Press, 2010. - This slim volume comes from the most leftist English-language scholar working on Mao's life that I am yet to find. If you're looking for a good biography of Mao that takes account of the post-Maoist era of Chinese Marxism and politics and has a leftist approach, this is the book for you. Pantsov, Alexander V., with Steven I. Levine. Mao: The Real Story. Simon and Schuster, 2012. - This is the most recent biography of Mao out there in English and I have to say it is the most painstakingly detailed and researched Mao biography in English. It is the longest Mao biography I have come across. As the title reveals, the book is a critique of and direct response to Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's horribly fallacious and inaccurate biography, Mao: the Unknown Story. Pantsov and Levine are by no means Maoists. They are highly critical of Stalin as a "tyrant" and see Mao as a firmly loyal "Stalinist" long after Stalin's death. That being said, the scholarship is top notch with an immensely impressive bibliography and a solid notes section. They particularly excel in the chapters that deal with the United Front and Civil War periods (1921-1949) thanks to Pantsov's ability to read both Russian and Chinese and having access to Soviet and Chinese archives. There are plenty of other good biographies of Mao out there in English but I find that these are the best ones to read first. If you're interested in reading other ones, I can recommend more based on your interests/what you are looking for.
