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im going to university of east london yeah it is worth reading about mao, in fact imo you should read some of his writings. theyre much more concise and easy to read than writings of marx or lenin.. the key philosophical essays are 'on practice' and 'on contradiction'

oh and theres no maoist party in this country yet unfortunately :[ im moving to london next week for uni tho, and theres a few good comrades there so hopefully we can start something by using mass line tactics to organise the people

LOL ! ok maybe i am a bit too judgemental >_>
I wrote an analysis of the riots on my blog if youre interested.. basically i think its great that a lot of people are ready to fight back against the system and the pigs, but the rage must be refined via mass education and organisation in order for a proper revolutionary movement to come about.

hmm well i used to identify as anarchist,, then i read a biography of mao and realised how cool and revolutionary his ideas and practice are. then i read about the maoist movements going on right now, especially in nepal, and their practical success which was really impressive (first communist revolution of the 21st century !), then read about the black panthers and realised maoist ideas can be applied to modern first world conditions,, and read about the cultural revolution and saw how maoism built on marxism-leninism while overcoming its failures.... in short i read about maoism in theory and practice

hehe thankyou :] theres a few things ive been meaning to type up to put on there but i keep forgetting.. unfortunately i mostly just write lame poems, so the people who like my theory writings are always disappointed ha
its true the cwi does seem to do some good 'local' work in some places, tho my main problem with them is they dont directly organise among the people, all ive seen them do is stand around with leaflets and stuff, plus they shy away from supporting any mass uprising (from ireland to the english riots) out of fear for alienating middle class workers or something lol. imo what we need more than anything is a group that can organise the peoples rage (currently at breaking point) along socialist lines

lol thanks for all the replies
not sure why you imply that maoists are tankies,, the whole thing that distinguishes maoism qualitatively from the old MLism is that we support the people in their rebellion against reactionaries even when those reactionaries hide inside a 'socialist state'.. thats the opposite of tankyism,, i support the hungarians in 56, the czechs in 68, and the chinese in 66-76. (took a while to respond cuz i was away for a long lonesome time)

You wrote:

"also, about the two-state solution, we also call for israel/palestine to be part of the socialist confederation of the middle east. i agree there may be some problems with the cwi approach, which is why there have actually been many debates about it in the cwi itself and different people have different views on it."

Do you have a link to these debates? I'm interested and I'm not aware of any debates on the subject.
Thanks,

Q

i suppose the only solution is to work harder to prevent things like that happening before they happen. that's the problem, really, the poorest areas of society the way they are you're always going to end up with vulnerable people (babies, elderly, disabled, etc.) being in the hands of people incapable of caring for them properly. yeah it does leave a bitter taste knowing that someone who's taken a life gets the same jail term as someone who's taken a shirt or something. it's ridiculous, really.