People’s War

Overturning Vulgar Third Worldism: A Practical Internationalist Approach to Revolution

June 23, 2020 Leading LightLeave a comment

Overturning Vulgar Third Worldism: A Practical Internationalist Approach to Revolution Medved Pobedy 23 June 2020 LLCO.org Last updated 14 August 2020 Contents IntroductionWhat Is “Vulgar” Third Worldism?The Roots of the Labor AristocracyThe Reactionary and Foolish Nature of the Labor AristocracyThe Many Contradictions of CapitalismConvergent and Divergent InterestsPrivilege, Propaganda, and False ConsciousnessThe Problems of Vulgar Third WorldismEstablishing an Effective Internationalist PracticeConclusionSources …

Trotskyist “Permanent Revolution” is Counter-revolution

March 18, 2017 Leading LightLeave a comment

Trotskyism has outlasted most other revisionist lines of that period, going on 80 years since Leon Trotsky’s demise. The reasons for Trotskyism’s persistence has very little to do with the successes of Trotskyist practice. Trotskyism’s persistence today has more to do with Trotsky’s excellent rhetorical skills in his speeches and writings, alongside a heavy dose of fawning by the agents of the imperialist bourgeoisie. The different and often conflicting lines expressed by Trotsky are the basis for the dozens of splinter sects calling themselves “Trotskyist” today. We are not going to get distracted by Trotsky’s many wavering and conflicting positions, and focus only what political line is revealed by actual historical Trotskyist practice.

Is people’s war universal?

September 3, 2016 Leading LightLeave a comment

Is people’s war universal? Prairie Fire LLCO.org “Dear Leading Light Is people’s war universal? Thanx.” We are in the middle of a great war by the First World against the Third World. Poverty. Famine. Suffering. Cruelty. Violence. Bombs. The imperialists of the First World turn the Third World into a giant graveyard. We must fight back! We will fight back! …

Leading Light – Simple Talking Points to use with other people’s forces

September 3, 2016 Leading LightLeave a comment

Leading Light – Simple Talking Points to use with other people’s forces LLCO.org This is a collection of talking points to introduce Leading Light Communism to other people’s forces that may not understand the truth of what we are saying yet. We must always express these points in a humble and friendly, never arrogant way. Let them come to us …

Notes on Protest and People’s War

September 3, 2016 Leading LightLeave a comment

Notes on Protest and People’s War LLCO.org Over the past few years we have seen numerous regimes shaken and many toppled throughout the world. Those deemed the “Arab Spring” have been the most dramatic movements and should make us rethink our own strategies for seizing power. The revolutionary movement had written off insurrection as dated, recent events demand that we …

Revolution in the Third World; Resistance in the First World

September 3, 2016 Leading LightLeave a comment

Revolution in the Third World; Resistance in the First World LLCO.org The First World currently has no significant social base for revolution. This means that in the United States there is no social group that as a whole can be consciously mobilized along its class, gender or, generally speaking, even national interests to support the revolutionary proletariat of the Third …

A First World revolutionary social base?

August 20, 2016 Leading LightLeave a comment

“Dear Leading Light,
Are there any groups in the First World with revolutionary potential at all? I understand that most First World workers possess none. Are some sweatshop employees, so-called “illegal” Mexican workers, and possibly some prisoners groups in the First World exploited?”

The Slum within the Global Countryside

August 20, 2016 Leading LightLeave a comment

The Slum within the Global Countryside: Reflections inspired by Mike Davis’ Planet of Slums LLCO.org “The brutal tectonics of neoliberal globalization since 1978 are analogous to the catastrophic process that shaped a ‘Third World’ in the first place, during the era of late-Victorian imperialism (1870-1900). At the end of the nineteenth century, the forcible incorporation into the world market of …

New world, new challenges, new science

August 20, 2016 Leading LightLeave a comment

New world, new challenges, new science Prairie Fire LLCO.org In 1965, as wars of liberation waged around the world, Lin Biao wrote of the great divide between the global city versus the global countryside, the rich countries versus the poor countries, the First World versus the Third World. This continues to be the principal contradiction today. Lin Biao saw the …

A Storm is Coming (Video)

August 2, 2016 Leading LightLeave a comment

A Storm is Coming LLCO.org The Leading Light Communist movement is the revolutionary movement of our age. Hundreds of years of revolutionary experience have led us to this point, to this moment. There have been two great waves of revolution. The first great wave: the Bolsheviks. The second great wave: the Chinese and other social revolutions that followed WWII as …