What is socialism? What is communism? LLCO.org [Over the past few years, we have refined our definition and our understanding of socialism. In this sense, the following article is somewhat outdated. The core of our advanced definition is that a simple dichotomy of capitalism and socialism is unscientific and dogmatic, and actually hinders our understanding of important aspects in the …
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On definition mongering
On definition mongering LLCO.org “Whatever is written in a book is right — such is still the mentality of culturally backward Chinese peasants. Strangely enough, within the Communist Party there are also people who always say in a discussion, ‘Show me where it’s written in the book.’ When we say that a directive of a higher organ of leadership is …
Soviet Women, Traditionalism, Revisionism
Soviet Women, Traditionalism, Revisionism 28 July 2014 LLCO.org These comments are a reaction to Gail Warshofsky Lapidus’ “Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development, and Social Change.” Much of Lapidus’ essay covers the same ground as these other works: Wendy Goldman’s Women at the Gates, Sheila Fritzpatrick’s Everyday Stalinism, and Hiroaki Kuromiya’s Stalin’s Industrial Revolution. What is refreshing about these authors, …
What is revisionism?
What is revisionism? LLCO.org Some people falsely think that revisionism is to deviate from an orthodoxy, to “revise” a tradition. This is an incorrect view of what revisionism is in a Marxist context. We should not treat Marxist writers the same way that Medieval Church scholars treated Aristotle. Mao was right when he said we must oppose book worship. We …
On counter-revolution: Just pointing to revisionists is not enough
On counter-revolution: Just pointing to revisionists is not enough Prairie Fire LLCO.org Someone writes: “Dear Leading Light, LLCO has not responded convincingly to the causes behind the degeneration of the Chinese and Russian Revolutions. Just pointing to ‘revisionists’ is not enough (and analysis based on individual personality traits is hardly systemic or materialist). In any case, if revisionists can infiltrate …
A quick look at some of Mao’s errors
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 …
Beginning talking points on the Cultural Revolution era
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. We must break all chains. …
Chinese capitalists say the Communist Party is not a revolutionary, but a ruling party
Chinese capitalists say the Communist Party is not a revolutionary, but a ruling party LLCO.org In a recent move, Chinese leaders have said that the so-called Chinese Communist Party is no longer a “revolutionary party,” rather it is a “ruling party.” Commentators say that President Xi Jinping, who is positioned to succeed President Hu Jintao was not just expressing his …
China’s revisionist PM’s family worth almost 3 billion
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 deemphasized the role of ideology …
Two Roads Defeated Part 3: Proletarian Jacobins
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. (1) These critics re-cycle the …