Amateur Marxism and a response to "Why Maoism?"

03/20/22 • 24 min

This episode is lesson #3 of a four-part series in which Chase reflects upon particular lessons generated from his study of Lenin's What is to Be Done?
Lesson #3: The victory of the masses assumes the development of a party of revolutionaries, not amateurs, and of maoists, not other "marxists."
The full essay "Lessons from Lenin: What is to Be Done?" will be released shortly on our patreon.
Recommended Reading
Three short essays and three books:
- "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism," Lenin
- "Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!" Revolutionary International Movement
- "On Marxism-Lenininism-Maoism," Communist Party of Peru
- M-L-M Basic Course, Communist Party of India (Maoist)
- Continuity and Rupture, Joshua Moufawad-Paul
- Critique of Maoist Reason, Joshua Moufawad-Paul
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Comprehensive Political Struggle

This episode is lesson #2 of a four-part series in which Chase reflects upon particular lessons generated from his study of Lenin's What is to Be Done?
Lesson #2: Mass work, including our exposures, needs to be comprehensive and political, as opposed to merely economistic.
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Our Principal Task, Mass Work, Winning the People's Trust

This is the concluding episode of our four-part "Lessons from Lenin" series in which Chase reflects on three lessons generated from his reading of Lenin's What is to Be Done? For the final episode, we discuss the whats and whys of our "principal task," the need for a Maoist Party in the U.S. to be produced by real mass work, and what it will take for revolutionaries to win the trust of our neighbors, working class and internally colonized nations.
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