Leading Light Magazine
What is LLCO? What are the fundamentals of Leading Light Communism? This periodically released series of free PDF downloads goes through these questions and others.
Leading Light 1: The General Line
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Leading Light 2: Science In Command
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Leading Light 3: Orientation
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Leading Light 4: Revolutionary History
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Leading Light 5: Practice
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Forward!
Forward!, a free downloadable booklet, breaks down the basics of Leading Light Communism. Forward! is an introductory text. This is the starting point for all new cadre and supporters.
This booklet answers many of the most frequently asked questions. All new cadre and supporters should familiarize themselves with these answers. These answers are the beginning of knowledge, not the end. Keep advancing. Prove yourself. Follow the Leading Light all the way. Be the Leading Light.
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Leading Light Communism Study Guide
THE BASICS – WHAT IS COMMUNISM? WHAT IS LEADING LIGHT?
What is Socialism? What is Communism?
https://llco.org/what-is-socialism-what-is-communism/
What is the Leading Light (and other frequently asked questions)?
Questions about Maoism and Leading Light Communism
https://llco.org/questions-about-maoism-and-leading-light-communism/
Out of the shadows, into the sun
https://llco.org/out-of-the-shadows-into-the-sun/
BEING A LEADING LIGHT
8 Instructions to lone comrades
https://llco.org/8-instructions-to-lone-comrades/
Questions about Practice in the First World
https://llco.org/questions-about-practice-in-the-first-world/
Twelve Principles of Leading Light Communist leadership
https://llco.org/twelve-principles-of-leading-light-communist-leadership/
It’s still important to oppose book worship
https://llco.org/its-still-important-to-oppose-book-worship/
Points on First World incarceration, obligation, and leadership
https://llco.org/points-on-first-world-incarceration-obligation-and-leadership/
Solving the Gordion Knot, instruction on method and decisiveness
https://llco.org/solving-the-gordian-knot
Tasks, deviations, corrections, an interview with Leading Light Commander Prairie Fire
ECOLOGY
Our General Line on the Environment
https://llco.org/our-general-line-on-the-environment/
Water and imperialism
https://llco.org/water-and-imperialism/
Global Warming threatens to push 100 million people into extreme poverty
https://llco.org/global-warming-threatens-to-push-100-million-people-into-extreme-poverty/
Reparations demanded for eco-destruction of Africa
https://llco.org/reparations-demanded-for-eco-destruction-of-africa/
GENDER
Soviet Women, Traditionalism, Revisionism
https://llco.org/soviet-women-traditionalism-revisionism/
On patriarchy, coconuts, and feminism
https://llco.org/on-patriarchy-coconuts-and-feminism/
On gender, a speech
ON REVISIONISM
What is revisionism?
https://llco.org/what-is-revisionism/
Who and What are Trotsky-cons?
https://llco.org/who-and-what-are-trotsky-cons/
On counter-revolution: Just pointing to revisionists is not enough
https://llco.org/on-counter-revolution-just-pointing-to-revisionists-is-not-enough/
Revisionism of the Cowardly Lion in the First World
https://llco.org/revisionism-of-the-cowardly-lion-in-the-first-world/
Do Nothingism is counter-revolutionary
https://llco.org/do-nothingism-is-counter-revolutionary/
RESISTANCE, PEOPLE’S WAR, REVOLUTION
Notes on Protest and People’s War
https://llco.org/notes-on-protest-and-peoples-war/
Revolution in the Third World; Resistance in the First World
https://llco.org/revolution-in-the-third-world-resistance-in-the-first-world/
Is people’s war universal?
https://llco.org/is-peoples-war-universal/
Excerpt from Malcolm Caldwell on wealth and people’s war
https://llco.org/excerpt-from-malcolm-caldwell-on-wealth-and-peoples-war/
IMPERIALISM
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Parts 1-3)
https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-13/
https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-23/
https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-33/
Book review of Teresa Hayter’s The Creation of World Poverty (Parts 1 & 2)
https://llco.org/book-review-part-1-of-2-of-teresa-hayters-the-creation-of-world-poverty/
https://llco.org/book-review-part-2-of-2-of-teresa-hayters-the-creation-of-world-poverty/
First Worldism in the imperialist countries is Social Fascism
https://llco.org/first-worldism-in-the-imperialist-countries-is-social-fascism/
On the recent criticisms of northern Korea’s atomic tests https://llco.org/on-the-recent-criticisms-of-northern-koreas-atomic-tests/
Comments on the evolution of empire
https://llco.org/comments-on-the-evolution-of-empire/
REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY
General History
Summations, questions, answers: a short lesson on revolutionary history
https://llco.org/summations-questions-answers/
Hitler’s Beneficiaries (2005) by Gotz Aly reviewed by Prairie Fire
https://llco.org/hitlers-beneficiaries-2005-by-gotz-aly/
Notes on today’s Maoists who uphold Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
https://llco.org/notes-on-todays-maoists-who-uphold-pol-pot-and-the-khmer-rouge/
Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union
The Anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution
https://llco.org/the-anniversary-of-the-bolshevik-revolution/
Molotov, MIM, Dogma, and Stalin’s support for Israel
https://llco.org/molotov-mim-dogma-and-stalins-support-for-israel/
Documents show Stalin went to great lengths to stop Hitler
https://llco.org/documents-show-stalin-went-to-great-lengths-to-stop-hitler/
Thoughts on Stalin
https://llco.org/thoughts-on-stalin/
Chinese Revolution
Beginning talking points on the Cultural Revolution era
https://llco.org/beginning-talking-points-on-the-cultural-revolution-era/
Early GPCR, the rise of New Power and new ideology (Parts 1-8)
https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-ideology-part-1
https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-2/
https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-3/
https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-4/
https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-5/
https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-6/
https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-7/
https://llco.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-8/
Was Lin Biao guilty of plotting a coup?
https://llco.org/was-lin-biao-guilty-of-plotting-a-coup/
Lin Biao as barometer
https://llco.org/lin-biao-as-barometer/
Some notes on lines within the Chinese Communist Party in the Maoist period
https://llco.org/lines-within-the-chinese-communist-party-in-the-maoist-period/
A tale of two communes
https://llco.org/a-tale-of-two-communes/
On healthcare and barefoot doctors
https://llco.org/on-healthcare-and-barefoot-doctors/
A Leading Light Communist Review of Mobo Gao, The Battle for China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution
https://llco.org/review-of-mobo-gao-the-battle-for-chinas-past/
Dissent, Science, and a healthy world (Parts 1 & 2)
https://llco.org/dissent-science-and-a-healthy-world/
https://llco.org/dissent-science-and-a-healthy-world2/
NEW POWER OF THE PROLETARIAT
New world, new challenges, new science
https://llco.org/new-world-new-challenges-new-science/
Which side are you on?
https://llco.org/which-side-are-you-on
Old Power, New Power, Reform versus Revolution
https://llco.org/old-power-new-power-reform-versus-revolution/
POLITICAL ECONOMY
Equality and Global Alignments
https://llco.org/equality-and-global-alignments/
A letter from a reader: Do all Americans live like Bill Gates?
https://llco.org/a-letter-from-a-reader-do-all-americans-live-like-bill-gates/
Oxfam’s lie that richest 85 people as “wealthy” as the bottom 3.5 billion
https://llco.org/oxfams-lie-that-top-85-are-as-wealthy-as-the-bottom-3-5-billion/
Dear Leading Light Communist.. are First World “workers” more productive?
https://llco.org/are-first-world-workers-more-productive/
Global Inequality Versus Socialist Equality
https://llco.org/global-inequality-versus-socialist-equality/
Review of André Gunder Frank’s Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment
https://llco.org/lumpenbourgeoisie-lumpendevelopment/
What about wealth? What about debt in the First World?
https://llco.org/what-about-wealth-what-about-debt-in-the-first-world/
The Slum within the Global Countryside: Reflections inspired by Mike Davis’ Planet of Slums
https://llco.org/the-slum-within-the-global-countryside/
Book review of Malcolm Caldwell’s The Wealth of Some Nations
https://llco.org/book-review-of-malcolm-caldwells-the-wealth-of-some-nations/
SCIENCE, EPISTEMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY
Plato’s cave, First and Third World, science and epistemology
Comments on First Worldism and Popper’s challenge
https://llco.org/first-worldism-and-poppers-challenge/
Sailing the seas depends on a helmsman
https://llco.org/sailing-the-seas-depends-on-a-helmsman/
On the inverse cripples
https://llco.org/on-the-inverse-cripples/
Questions on Marx
https://llco.org/questions-on-marx/
Revolutionary Science in command, not identity politics
https://llco.org/revolutionary-science-in-command-not-identity-politics/