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  • Marxist-Leninist-Maoist

    Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, as based mainly on the teachings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Iosef Stalin and Mao Zedong, is the highest qualitative stage of Marxism so far and is the guiding ideology of revolutionaries the world over who carry forward the fight for a world free of all class distinctions, all exploitative production relations, all oppressive social relations, and all corresponding, reactionary ideas - the communist world of the future. Basic Marxist-Leninist principles were implemented successfully, though with shortcomings, in the Soviet Union during the leadership of Lenin and Stalin, but it was the experience of socialist construction and the 'Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution' in the People's Republic of China under Mao however that heralded 'Mao Tse-Tung Thought' and later 'Maoism' as a new qualitative advancement of Marxism-Leninism. Key principles of Maoism include:



    1. The people's war strategy, i.e. a strategy of mass-based guerilla war principally relying on the exploited social base leading to the encirclement of the more developed areas that profit from the exploitation of that social base.



    2. The mass line, which encompasses four main points: a) learn from the people while leading them, b) serve the people while leading them, c) rely on the people while leading them, and d) practice leadership mainly in the form of guidance rather than commands.



    3. The philosophical, strategic, and tactical approach of identifying the contextual principal contradiction and attacking the contextual main enemy. (Divide and conquer, in other words.)



    4. New democratic revolution and the corresponding strategic block of four classes as the path to sustainable socialism for countries with pre-capitalist modes of production.



    5. Political and cultural revolutions within the proletarian revolution as occasionally necessary.



    Unfortunately, following the lead of the Khrushchovite revisionists who destroyed socialism in the USSR after Stalin's death, after Mao's death the PRC was also taken over by revisionists who revise and betray fundamental principles of Marxism in the interests of capitalism and, like the USSR before it, a once great proletarian state was taken down the path of capitalist restoration and social-imperialism. Because of this, we put particular emphasis on the dangers of revisionism. Despite the defeats of the 20th century, the flame of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is still being kept alive and advanced by the experiences of the countless CPs in the third world waging or preparing for people's war. Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!



    (Group description by cmrds mosfeld, red cat, Palingenesis, Marxach-LéinÃÂ*nach, the Hong Se Sun, Siren Bang, scarletghoul and Who?.)

    Category: Tendencies
    : 19th August 2017 00:54

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  • People's War

    Protracted People's War (for short People's War or PPW) is a communist military doctrine first theorized by Mao Tse-tung for mobilizing the masses and seizing state power. Contrasted with the several "insurrectionary" strategies which view the revolution as one defining moment, People's War doctrine takes a gradual approach of obtaining several military and political victories, establishing base areas, and, at every important conjuncture, accumulating those forces with the most advanced consciousness into communist ranks.



    The three defining stages of development in the course of People's War are:



    (1) Strategic defensive -- where communist fighters are mainly engaged in guerrilla warfare whereas state forces are on the offensive;



    (2) Strategic equilibrium -- the People's Army can take state forces head on and on a more equal basis;



    (3) Strategic offensive -- where the People's Army has the advantage and the state forces are on the defensive.



    People's War has been applied in accordance with the concrete conditions of countries by communist and national liberation organizations in the oppressed countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Since the triumph of revisionism in China, two of the most advanced attempts at seizure of power took place in Peru and Nepal -- whose respective People's Wars reached strategic equilibrium and strategic offensive. Today, Communist Parties which adhere to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism are engaged in People's War in India, the Philippines, Turkey and Bangladesh.



    Long Live People's War!

    Category: Tendencies
    : 29th July 2017 14:05

    63 member(s)
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  • Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism

    For the discussion of Juche Idea, North Korea, DPRK, North Korean history and culture, Kimchi, revolutionary theory and praxis, Kim J o n g-ILL, Kimchi recipes, and more.



    "Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is an integral system of the idea, theory and method of Juche, and a great revolutionary ideology representative of the Juche era. Guided by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, we should conduct Party building and Party activities, so as to sustain the revolutionary character of our Party and advance the revolution and construction in line with the ideas and intentions of the President and the General."-Kim Jong-Un.



    Three Principles as outlined by Chairman Kim Il-Sung:



    I. Political independence.

    II. Economic self-sustenance.

    III. Self-reliance in defense.



    In a nutshell, points from On the Juche Idea by Kim Jong- ILL:



    -The people must have independence in thought and politics, economic self-sufficiency, and self-reliance in defense.



    -Policy must reflect the will and aspirations of the masses and employ them fully in revolution and construction.



    -Methods of revolution and construction must be suitable to the situation of the country.



    - The most important work of revolution and construction is molding people ideologically as communists and mobilizing them to constructive action.



    Join o r die

    Category: Tendencies
    : 26th March 2016 18:26

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  • New Communist Movement

    the Principles of the New Communist Group



    Who is this group for:



    Contemporary Leftwing Maoists/Hoxhaists, Post-Trotskyist ,Marcyites, contemporary Marxist-Leninists (those not stuck in the 1940s), pro-Cuban/Venezuelan Trotskyists (again, those not stuck in the 1940s), Leftwing Bolivarians, pro-cuban/liberation movements Anarcho-Syndicalists/Autonomists



    Supporters/sympathizers of the Workers World Party (USA), Kasama Project (USA), Party of Socialism and Liberation (USA), Socialist Workers Party (USA), Communist Party of Cuba, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), The Shining Path (Peru), Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), Communist Party of the Philippines/New Peoples Army, Revolutionary Communist Group (UK), Socialist Action (UK), Workers Party of Belgium, the New Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Tudeh Party (Iran), Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party (Pakistan), Communist Party of India (Marxist), Pole of Communist Rebirth in France, Communist Party of Greece, Portuguese Communist Party, German Communist Party, Kommunistische Plattform (within the German Left Party), Turkish Communist Party, Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist Leninist), Freie Deutsche Jugend, The Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, the FARC, ect...



    Also historical supporters of the 1960s era SDS/WUO, the Black Panther Party, Japanese Red Army, Yippies, EZLN, Batasuna/EHAK (Basque country), Carlos the Jackal, ETA, Sinn Fein/Official IRA/INLA, the WFDY, the PSUV (Venezuela), the MAS (Bolivia), 1960s/70s era Vietnamese communists, and progressive national liberation movements in their revolutionary periods (the Sandinista's (Nicaragua), FREMILO (Mozambique), MPLA (Angola), African National Congress (South Africa), New Jewel Movement (Grenada) ect.)



    [note: the above is not an exclusive list and obviously there are differences between the groups and positions mentioned above, its to give the range of perspectives that this group would cater to and to mention ideological positions and groups that are historically or politically related to the new left as distinct from old left or post-modernist 'post-left'.]



    Who this is not for:



    -Sectarian/anti-Cuban Anti-Revisionists, people who advance the theory of 'social imperialism' to the point of openly supporting imperialist (i.e. NATO) reaction against contemporary and former socialist (or revisionist) states



    -Active endorsers of Eurocommunism, "Democratic Socialism", and other forms of social-democratic reformism under the banner of communism



    -Orthodox Trotskyists, Cliffites, anyone who calls for the overthrow of existing workers states rather than their defense or anyone who takes a third camp line in geopolitical issues.



    -People who advance the theory of 'state capitalism' rather then degenerated/bureaucratic/revisionist socialism (Left-Communists, Cliffites, third camp Trotskyists and Ultra-left Maoists)



    -People who obsessively support any dead creepy small state communist leader (such as Hoxha, Ceausescu, Pol Pot, "Jim Jones" etc) or who take a "stalinogothic lifestylist" rather than a contemporary Marxist-Leninist position.



    Unifying principles:



    -Militant defense of socialist states, ('tankie'/cold-war geopolitics). This also means contemporary socialist societies (although debatable in which degree) like Cuba, Nepal, Vietnam, Laos, and the DPRK



    -Libertarian social theory, with radical approaches to all social issues, including socialist feminism, gay liberation, youth liberation, and oppressed internal semi-colonies etc./rejection of paternalism in all of its forms including anti-drug, anti-sex, and anti-rock and roll (kidding) positions.



    -Acceptance of Lenin's theory of Imperialism, including labour aristocracy and imperialist super-profits while recognizing that hyper-exploited people exist in the first world.





    Possible theoretical issues:



    How much of Maoism is correct; Bolivarianism, mechanisms for co-opted labour and to what extent labour in imperialist centres is co-opted; national chauvinism in the first world left and in westernized third world parties, whether it exists or not, and if so its causes; the status of Venezuela and Nepal; the movement in India; existentialist social theory and philosophy; what can communists do of use in the first world; the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism; social libertarianism vs communitarian/paternalist leftwing views of social issues; etc...



    I would also suggest that the above would be the guidelines in terms of the ethos and 'official' politics but that with the consensus the people who accept them people who fit with the attitude and general perspective but differ on particular points could be admitted.





    In solidarity,



    TragicClown & Deconditioned Reflex +1

    Category: Tendencies
    : 17th September 2016 01:10

    217 member(s)
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    Latest Discussion: Few questions
  • Revolutionary Marxists

    For those with 50 posts or more who acknowledge the need to bring about "the merger of [Marxism] and the worker movement" (Kautsky) and solve the crises of theory

    Category: Tendencies
    : 22nd April 2017 03:48

    251 member(s)
    Sewer Socialist John Nada Communist Mutant From Outer Space Jacob Cliff Црвена Redistribute the Rep Pancakes Rühle Asero Guardia Rossa Sinister Intents
  • Trotskyist

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    Category: Tendencies
    : 15th September 2017 18:18

    396 member(s)
    mongo Comrade Baugher Konikow QuiteCurious Red_Jacobin Donovich Red Baker N. Senada Proletarius tomcres
    Latest Discussion: which affiliation is yours
  • Feminist

    Feminism: A social theory or political movement supporting the equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

    Category: Tendencies
    : 29th April 2018 17:14

    504 member(s)
    theSashaScarr BreakAllTheChains Grouchy Monstrosity Pinko_Cuck openminded InfuriatinglyRed Rich Piana Seldokopor SentimentalDisenchantment Chomskyan
  • Hoxhaists

    For people who agree with Enver Hoxha on revisionism, socialism, dictatorship of the proletariat and everything else.

    Category: Tendencies
    : 7th August 2017 01:27

    3 member(s)
    LumBardhi CallInTheDogs Raul Castro
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  • Black Panthers

    For people who have an interest in and respect for the Black Panther Party and their unique brand of communism.

    Category: Tendencies
    : 10th May 2017 19:19

    181 member(s)
    Ancom.Texas cruxcommunista Hampton John Nada Communist Mutant From Outer Space Jessica karlkropotkin Ricemilk ShadowStar Communist_Rage
    Latest Discussion: Black Panthers Still Aroud
  • Marxist-Leninists

    Marxism-Leninism is the theory and practice of the Communists, who uphold the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin in the struggle for proletarian revolution, the construction of socialism, and the triumph of communism on a world scale. It is the scientific ideology of the working-class and its vanguard which accomplish these aims.



    Marxism-Leninism bases itself on historical and dialectical materialism, taking into account the objective material conditions existent in each country and region. It supports just struggles against imperialism and neo-colonialism whose victories are guaranteed through the leading role of the working-class in said struggles. It supports internationalism as the guiding basis of the foreign policy of the socialist state and in the approach to inter-imperialist conflicts. Marxist-Leninists fight for both democratic and socialist demands and, where necessary in the world, carry out any bourgeois-democratic tasks in tandem with the uninterrupted move over into the socialist revolution.



    The struggles waged by Marx, Engels and Lenin against all forms of revisionism, opportunism and reformism constituted both the defense of scientific socialism and its creative development, opposing both "left" and right-wing deviations.



    The construction of socialism in the Soviet Union and likeminded countries provided a superior alternative to the capitalist system. The treacherous policies pursued by the restorers of capitalism constituted a heavy setback for the world working-class movement, but they could not reverse the nature of capitalism and the inevitability of class struggles for socialism under it.



    Marxism-Leninism remains the ideology of the working-class by virtue of its scientific content and objective merits in the epoch of imperialism and the decay of capitalism.



    =Reading List=

    -Basics-

    * https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomyACondensedCourse

    * https://archive.org/details/MaterialismDialecticalMethod

    * https://www.rhizzone.net/forum/topic/13358/ (Elementary Principles of Philosophy)

    * https://archive.org/details/lininandtherussi035179mbp (an introduction to Lenin's life, Leninism, and the October Revolution along with the first few years afterward)

    * https://archive.org/details/AShortHistoryOfTheCPSU

    * https://archive.org/details/InternationalWorkingClassAndCommunistMovementHisto ricalRecord

    * https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ (The State and Revolution, by V.I. Lenin)

    * https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ ("Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder, by V.I. Lenin)

    * https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ (Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, by V.I. Lenin)

    * http://bookzz.org/book/862537/add33c (Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism)

    -Advanced-

    * https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomyCapitalism

    * https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomySocialism

    * https://archive.org/details/tfomlp (The Fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy)

    -See Also-

    * http://www.revleft.com/vb/threads/195470-Compilations-of-writings-by-Marx-Engels-and-Lenin-(PDFs)



    NOTE: To all forum users wishing to join, have some indication that you are a ML in your profile.

    Category: Tendencies
    : 7th June 2018 13:29

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  • Marxist-Leninists

    Marxism-Leninism is the theory and practice of the Communists, who uphold the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin in the struggle for proletarian revolution, the construction of socialism, and the triumph of communism on a world scale. It is the scientific ideology of the working-class and its vanguard which accomplish these aims.

    Marxism-Leninism bases itself on historical and dialectical materialism, taking into account the objective material conditions existent in each country and region. It supports just struggles against imperialism and neo-colonialism whose victories are guaranteed through the leading role of the working-class in said struggles. It supports internationalism as the guiding basis of the foreign policy of the socialist state and in the approach to inter-imperialist conflicts. Marxist-Leninists fight for both democratic and socialist demands and, where necessary in the world, carry out any bourgeois-democratic tasks in tandem with the uninterrupted move over into the socialist revolution.

    The struggles waged by Marx, Engels and Lenin against all forms of revisionism, opportunism and reformism constituted both the defense of scientific socialism and its creative development, opposing both "left" and right-wing deviations.

    The construction of socialism in the Soviet Union and likeminded countries provided a superior alternative to the capitalist system. The treacherous policies pursued by the restorers of capitalism constituted a heavy setback for the world working-class movement, but they could not reverse the nature of capitalism and the inevitability of class struggles for socialism under it.

    Marxism-Leninism remains the ideology of the working-class by virtue of its scientific content and objective merits in the epoch of imperialism and the decay of capitalism.

    =Reading List=
    -Basics-
    * https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomyACondensedCourse
    * https://archive.org/details/MaterialismDialecticalMethod
    * https://www.rhizzone.net/forum/topic/13358/ (Elementary Principles of Philosophy)
    * https://archive.org/details/lininandtherussi035179mbp (an introduction to Lenin's life, Leninism, and the October Revolution along with the first few years afterward)
    * https://archive.org/details/AShortHistoryOfTheCPSU
    * https://archive.org/details/InternationalWorkingClassAndCommunistMovementHisto ricalRecord
    * https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ (The State and Revolution, by V.I. Lenin)
    * https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ ("Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder, by V.I. Lenin)
    * https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ (Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, by V.I. Lenin)
    * http://bookzz.org/book/862537/add33c (Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism)
    -Advanced-
    * https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomyCapitalism
    * https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomySocialism
    * https://archive.org/details/tfomlp (The Fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy)
    -See Also-
    * http://www.revleft.com/vb/threads/195470-Compilations-of-writings-by-Marx-Engels-and-Lenin-(PDFs)

    NOTE: To all forum users wishing to join, have some indication that you are a ML in your profile.

    Category: Tendencies
    : 7th June 2018 13:29

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    srijan Molle james119a Nah Revisionism LumBardhi killstvz cruxcommunista Garlic Hihi H O X H A
  • Indian Guerilla Left Front

    Join the Indian political revolution .Lal Salaam to all Comrades

    : 5th June 2018 04:59

    5 member(s)
    srijan TheRightfulEmperor willowtooth GLF guevarism
  • Debunking leftists.

    As the tendency name suggests, this group is for interested leftists to come together, dispell and find quick refutations of common myths surrounding economics, discrimination, Communism itself and other subjects that commonly appear in the discourse of modern politics.

    If you get pissed off whenever you hear a comparison between Marx, Lenin Pol-Pot and Hitler, If you tremble uncontrollably at the words 'a way between extreme Marxism and Capitalism' or 'Good on paper but bad in practice', If you hate having to put up the constant conservative vomits who continuously explain to you how deregulation would increase competition and therefore worker's luxury of living, then this is the group for you!

    Category: Interests
    : 7th May 2018 06:03

    42 member(s)
    Euphoria Callum the communist BreakAllTheChains Pinko_Cuck Faust Arp LeninistIthink The_Southern_Leftist Lenin_Was_Right flaming bolshevik M-L-C-F
  • Feminist

    Feminism: A social theory or political movement supporting the equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

    Category: Tendencies
    : 29th April 2018 17:14

    504 member(s)
    theSashaScarr BreakAllTheChains Grouchy Monstrosity Pinko_Cuck openminded InfuriatinglyRed Rich Piana Seldokopor SentimentalDisenchantment Chomskyan
  • Orthodox Trotskyism

    Orthodox Trotskyism, so called by both adherents and detractors, is a political current within the broader Trotskyist movement that bases itself on the work of Leon Trotsky and his associates, such as James P. Cannon, who advanced Marxist theory in the direction indicated by Trotsky's work, in opposition to the revisionist theories of Pablo, Shachtman, Cliff and others. Orthodox Trotskyists emphasise the analysis, first outlined by Trotsky, of the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers' state, of the Stalinist bureaucracy as a contradictory stratum, and of the present epoch of the class struggle as being characterised by a deep crisis of leadership that can only be resolved by forging, on a firm basis, a Fourth International of revolutionary Bolsheviks-Leninists. This group is for adherents to the orthodox Trotskyist line, and every comrade who is interested in orthodox Trotskyist theory.

    Category: Tendencies
    : 13th April 2018 11:33

    29 member(s)
    Callum the communist BreakAllTheChains Chekist IsaacIsaac Konikow Art Vandelay Red Baker tomcres LeninistIthink Bee
    Latest Discussion: Rip
  • Romantic Sound

    For all those who's passion finds an outlet in music with themes about love and romance. Countless genres around the world from oldies and 70's ballads in the west to C-ambient and soothing J-pop ballads in the east. Romantic tones find themselves being a universal language. We don't care if this music makes us seem soft or weak, the mood it puts us in is powerful.

    Category: Interests
    : 12th April 2018 22:45

    2 member(s)
    Callum the communist Bala Perdida
    Latest Discussion: What genre do you love to?
  • Industrial Workers of the World

    A union for all workers.

    An injury to one is an injury to all

    http://www.iww.org/

    : 12th April 2018 22:45

    15 member(s)
    Callum the communist Pilotgrrl TheRightfulEmperor treich AngelofDarkness tpoted Birk umeradam TheFriedRooster Molotov1848
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  • Castroism

    This group is for people who feel cuba's revolution is now the example for world revolution in the 21rst century

    Category: Tendencies
    : 12th April 2018 22:45

    7 member(s)
    Callum the communist james119a guevarism yorkshireman ForNoGoodReason MiguelTheSocialist Raul Castro
  • Linguistics Group

    A Group for the discussion of Historical and Scientific linguistics, as well as the learning of languages.

    Category: Interests
    : 6th April 2018 17:22

    56 member(s)
    Potemkin Andrew_Zito tomcres Guardia Rossa Faust Arp Chomskyan Socialist99 Oulian Red_Banner OHumanista
  • Luxemburgists

    For all those who identify as Luxemburgists or are influenced by Rosa Luxemburg and her writings and actions.

    Category: Tendencies
    : 29th March 2018 01:57

    280 member(s)
    BreakAllTheChains RainbowRevolution AmericanCommunist criticalrealist allforbread JoPalma TheFriedRooster Noxian Idahoan_Luxemburgist InfuriatinglyRed
    Latest Discussion: Anarchism and Luxemburgism