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Of Concepts and Methods is K. Murali’s new collection of essays, which covers a wide range of topics that are tied together by the author’s ongoing endeavor of “deepening the critique of mechanical thinking.” Written mostly in prison, these texts grapple with different trends of post modernism which have had a stranglehold on “new” thought for that last several decades, Chavismo and “21st Century Socialism,” and the particularities of the manifestation of fascism in India...
Written in a time when the left in Turkey was divided on the question of a nation’s right to self-determination (i.e. the right to secede), Ibrahim Kaypakkaya’s essay was a concrete study of the Kurdish question and, more broadly, an analysis of the revolutionary standpoint towards national minorities. Still relevant today, this essay can help us understand current and ongoing national liberation movements --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify...
Stand for Socialism against Modern Revisionism was published in 1992. It is a major document of the Second Rectification Movement and a counter to all the attacks on the socialist cause churned out by the imperialists and the petty bourgeois anti-communists in the aftermath of the rapid full restoration of capitalism in the revisionist-ruled countries. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support
Published in 1975 when the anti-revisionist movement in the US was upholding an openly homophobic line, this essay provided a scientific analysis of the “Gay Question.” Today, it teaches us how, beyond rejecting an incorrect line, the MLM still has to synthesize a proletarian line on the LGBT struggle based on the experiences in semi-colonies as well as imperialist countries. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support
This essay succinctly answers the question “Is China still socialist?” and tries to give an objective analysis of the reasons behind the defeat of socialism in China. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support
This compilation contains Mao Zedong’s most important philosophical writings, covering topics on dialectical materialism, the importance of practice, and how to differentiate between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions and how to resolve them. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support
Essays in part 2 include: Rectify Errors and Rebuild the Party, Program for a People’s Democratic Revolution, and Declaration of the New People’s Army --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support
The essay included in part 1 is: Philippine Society and Revolution --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions is a 1906 booklet by Rosa Luxemburg that evaluates the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution, poses them as an analogy for German socialists to learn from, and argues for a political mass strike. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support
This compilation includes the most important documents of the Organization of Iranian People’s Fedai Guerrillas, which conducted armed struggle against the Iranese State in the 1970’s. It includes a new introduction by Ashraf Dehghani to Massoud Ahmadzadeh’s “Armed Struggle: Both a Strategy and a Tactic” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/foreign-languages-press/support