Review: Turning Money into Rebellion, edited by Gabriel Kuhn, Part 3 LLCO.org Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers (Kreplebebad, 2014) edited by Gabriel Kuhn documents the story of one of the most interesting revolutionary trends to emerge from the First World. It is the story of Mao-friendly, modern-day Robin Hoods from Denmark, the so-called …
Review: Turning Money into Rebellion, edited by Gabriel Kuhn, Part 2 LLCO.org Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers (Kreplebedab, 2014) is a great book every anti-imperialist and revolutionary in the First World should read. The book tells the story and thinking of the so-called Danish “Blekingegade Group,” the Mao-friendly Kommunistisk Arbejdskreds (KAK), founded in …
Turning Money Into Rebellion edited by Gabriel Kuhn reviewed part 1 LLCO.org Turning Money Into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers (Kersplebedeb, 2014) is a wake-up call for the legions of wannabe anti-imperialists and Marxists who populate the First World so-called “left” today. It is a collection of documents that chart the development of those revolutionaries who …
Questions about Maoism and Leading Light Communism LLCO.org We recently received some questions about the relationship of Leading Light Communism to Maoism. 1. Is the LLCO’s concept of the Third World the same as chairman Mao’s? No. The Leading Light’s “Global Class Analysis” is totally different from Mao’s “Theory of Three Worlds.” Let’s look at the differences. Mao Zedong upheld …
Excerpt from Malcolm Caldwell on wealth and people’s war LLCO.org Malcolm Caldwell is most known for his mysterious death in 1978 while in the care of the Pol Pot regime. He was one of the few Westerners granted access to Democratic Kampuchea. Caldwell was even granted an interview with Pol Pot. However, the night following the interview, Caldwell was shot …
A quick look at some of Mao’s errors LLCO.org Mao Zedong was the greatest revolutionary of the last century. Mao led a quarter of the world in throwing off the chains of imperialism, feudalism and capitalism. “China has stood up,” he announced from the steps of Tiananmen. A quarter of the world’s population threw in their lot with Mao’s revolution …
The LLCO is reproducing this document from Beijing Review, August of 1966. Of the documents within Beijing Review from 66 to 76, the work of Robert F. Williams, along with other Lin Biao-influenced documents, comes closest to embracing a Leading Light class analysis. However, the overwhelming majority of articles in Beijing Review from the decade upheld Mao’s First Worldist analysis. The early Cultural Revolution was highly influenced by Lin Biao’s 1965 document Long Live the Victory of People’s War! and its orientation to the Third World. However, even in the early years of the Cultural Revolution, there are contrary trends in Beijing Review.
On the Communist Party of India (Maoist)’s 10th Anniversary Report September 2014 LLCO.org The Communist Party of India (Maoist) has released a 96-page document commemorating its 10th anniversary earlier in September, 2014. The document entitled “A decade of struggle and sacrifice” offers an assessment of the current state of the Maoist war in India. The document reports that the Maoists have …
Since Lenin, one mark that distinguished communists from revisionists is their respective orientations toward bourgeois democracy. Lenin understood that in capturing bourgeois power, one is captured by the bourgeoisie. That a revolutionary organization that abandons the construction of its own, new power in order to gain hegemony within bourgeois political structures ends up captured, transformed by those very structures it sought to capture. Revolutionary organizations do not capture bourgeois state power. Rather, bourgeois power captures and transforms revolutionary organizations. Once again, Lenin’s lessons have been demonstrated in Nepal.
Prachanda proposes the Dengist path for Nepal, typical July 2008 LLCO.org The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is a party that emerged out of the revisionist cesspool known as the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM). The party waged a people’s war for many years and seized power in much of Nepal. Very abruptly, the leadership called off the people’s war …
