Revolutionary culture, art in previously socialist states etc.
Kharijites attack Islam to steal our past and future LLCO.org In the 7th century, the Islamic world was descending into chaos. A struggle for power followed. Uthman ibn Affan, the third of the companion caliphs, had just been assassinated by rebels in 656 AD. There was a struggle over succession. Who would lead the Muslim …
Extremist barbarism kills bloggers LLCO.org An Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death on February 26, 2015. He ran the Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog site, which championed secular, humanist values. He had received many death threats before he was killed. He was hacked to death for speaking his mind. Those who murdered him are trying to …
Great Leap distortions uncovered MC5 8 January 2000 (slightly edited 2002 and later again by the LLCO editors 2010) LLCO.org In the process of fact-checking anti-Mao propaganda, MIM uncovered a stunning error in bourgeois media and intelligence community analysis of the Great Leap. A Harvard professor overestimated the net loss of population in the worst …
Beginning talking points on the Cultural Revolution era LLCO.org Communism is the final goal of our revolution. There is an old Maoist saying that you cannot break every chain but one. It does not matter if you are chained to a wall with one or a hundred chains, you are still chained to a wall. …
Review: Morning Sun (2003, Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon and Geremie R. Barmé) LLCO.rog “You young people are full of vigor and vitality. You are full of life. You are like the morning sun. You are our hope.” — Mao Zedong “When we saw the light of dawn, we felt as if this was the dawn …
Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? Joseph Ball 21 September 2006 LLCO.org (slightly edited); Original source: Maoists.org Over the last 25 years the reputation of Mao Zedong has been seriously undermined by ever more extreme estimates of the numbers of deaths he was supposedly responsible for. In his lifetime, Mao Zedong …
Early GPCR, the Rise of New Power and New Ideology: Seas are Rising, Clouds and Waters Raging – The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Begins, Maoist China from 1958 to May 16, 1966 (Part 8) Read Part 1 here: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-1/ Part 2: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-2/ Part 3: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-3/ Part 4: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-4/ Part 5: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-5/ Part 6: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-6/ Part …
Early GPCR, the Rise of New Power and New Ideology: Seas are Rising, Clouds and Waters Raging – The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Begins, Maoist China from 1958 to May 16, 1966 (Part 6) Read Part 1 here: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-1/ Part 2: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-2/ Part 3: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-3/ Part 4: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-4/ Part 5: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-5/ Part 6: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-6/ Part …
Early GPCR, the Rise of New Power and New Ideology: Seas are Rising, Clouds and Waters Raging – The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Begins, Maoist China from 1958 to May 16, 1966 (Part 5) Read Part 1 here: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-1/ Part 2: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-2/ Part 3: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-3/ Part 4: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-4/ Part 6: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-6/ Part 7: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-7/ Part …
Early GPCR, the Rise of New Power and New Ideology: Seas are Rising, Clouds and Waters Raging – The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Begins, Maoist China from 1958 to May 16, 1966 (Part 4) Prairie Fire LLCO.org Read Part 1 here: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-1/ Part 2: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-2/ Part 3: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-3/ Part 5: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-5/ Part 6: https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-6/ Part …