Sailing the seas depends on a helmsman LLCO.org Water has a special place in socialist propaganda of the past. It was by swimming in the Yangtze river that Mao returned to politics after being sidelined. Mao’s swim was one of the symbols of the Cultural Revolution. Stalin was portrayed as a captain piloting the ship …
Movie Review of China: A Century of Revolution Part 2, the Mao Years 1949 to 1976 (Directed by Sue Williams, Zeitgest Films, 1994) LLCO.org China: A Century of Revolution, The Mao Years, is part two of a three part, six hour, documentary directed by Sue Williams in 1994. This documentary is in the class of …
A tale of two communes LLCO.org “Dear, Leading Light, I really appreciate how LLCO is offering a fresh interpretation of the 20th century communist movement. This is exactly what we need for the movement to go forward. One question, though – given that Mao was so supportive of the spontaneously formed Henan Commune in the …
China’s revisionist PM’s family worth almost 3 billion LLCO.org Revisionists do not often openly call themselves capitalists. Many revisionists do not even see themselves as capitalists or revisionists. Many misleaders do not think of themselves as such. In the 1970s, the revisionists in China began pushing hard for the Theory of the Productive Forces. They …
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 …
Two Roads Defeated Part 3: Proletarian Jacobins Prairie Fire 2008 LLCO.org Part 1: https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-in-the-cultural-revolution-part-1-of-3-young-generals-and-mass-movements/ Part 2: https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-in-the-cultural-revolution-part-2-lin-biaos-road/ The defeat of socialism in the People’s Republic of China was not the result of the lack of a social program or the lack of struggle as diverse critics ranging from Slavoj Žižek to Philip Short have implied. …
Two Roads Defeated in the Cultural Revolution Part 2: Lin Biao’s Road Part 1: https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-in-the-cultural-revolution-part-1-of-3-young-generals-and-mass-movements/ Part 3: https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-part-3-proletarian-jacobins/ Prairie Fire 17 September 2008 LLCO.org It is popular, even among those sympathetic to the Chinese Revolution, to see the Cultural Revolution as only chaos, as destruction with no construction. These critics hold that this led to the …
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 7) 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 …