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Political Theory and Issues Page

Suppressed or difficult to find articles, books, discussions,
etc., on various political topics, issues and questions.

      This new section on BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET will contain materials on various political topics which are not specifically related to some particular country, but which have nevertheless been suppressed, or are at least very difficult to find.

      Among the many topics we hope to provide information on are: historical materialism, revolutionary strategy, revisionism and opportunism, the national question, the mass line and methods of work among the masses, and the various differences and disagreements which arise from time to time within revolutionary and mass movements.

      If you know of other documents or items which should be made available here, contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net

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Introduction to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism:

• [Book:] From Marx to Mao Tse-tung: A Study in Revolutionary Dialectics, by George Thomson, (London: China Policy Study Group, 1971), in searchable PDF format, 96 double pages, 9,790 KB. Though written over 40 years ago, this is still a fine introduction to revolutionary Marxism. It includes a great many quotations from Marx, Lenin, Mao and others, all arranged in a way to illustrate the overall coherence and unity of MLM theory.
• [Book:] Capitalism and After: The Rise and Fall of Commodity Production, by George Thomson, (London: China Policy Study Group, 1973), in PDF format, 162 pages, 11,007 KB. A continuation of the above volume, focusing here on the political economy of capitalism and socialism. Like the first volume, it includes many quotations from Marx, Lenin, Mao and others, all arranged in a way to illustrate the overall coherence and unity of MLM theory.
• [Book:] The Human Essence: The Sources of Science and Art, by George Thomson, (London: China Policy Study Group, 1974), in PDF format, 132 pages, 8,694 KB. The third and final volume of Thomson’s introduction to Marxism, which together “cover the political, historical and ideological aspects of the subject.” This volume, however, is based to a somewhat greater degree on Thomson’s own thinking and work.
• [Book:] The Science of Revolution: An Introduction, by Lenny Wolff, (Chicago: RCP Publications, 1983), in PDF format, 252 pages (130 printed sheets), 12,497 KB. [Note: This scanned version, copied from another web site, has some underlining in it, and also 2 pages which were messed up in the scanning process. We will try to obtain a cleaner version to post soon.]

Revolutionary Work Among the Masses:

• [Book:] V. I. Lenin: Party Work in the Masses, articles and speeches, including excerpts from his longer works, (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969), 170 pages. This is a collection of some of Lenin’s important writings about how to carry out work among the masses, which every communist should be very familiar with. [Note: This book is available in searchable PDF image format. Because of the large size of the scanned book, each separate article has been made available as a separate file.]
  • Cover Image   [JPG: 242 KB]
  • Photo of Lenin   [HTML: 32 KB]
  • Title and Contents Pages   [114 KB]
    • German translation of these Title and Contents pages, which provides references to the relevant sections of the German edition of Lenin’s works. [Thanks to K.S.]   [11 KB]
  • “The Urgent Tasks of Our Movement”   [351 KB]
  • “On the Tasks of the Social-Democratic Movement”   [96 KB]
  • “New Tasks and New Forces”   [627 KB]
  • “On Confounding Politics with Pedagogics”   [210 KB]
  • “Lessons of the Moscow Uprising”   [500 KB]
  • “The Attitude of the Bourgeois Parties and of the Workers’ Party to the Duma Elections”   [308 KB]
  • From “Draft Resolutions for the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.”   [140 KB]
  • “The Assessment of the Present Situation”   [829 KB]
  • “On the Road”   [554 KB]
  • “Once More on Partyism and Non-Partyism”   [155 KB]
  • “On the Eve of the Elections to the Fourth Duma”   [292 KB]
  • “Congress of Peasants’ Deputies”   [199 KB]
  • From “Greetings to Italian, French and German Communists”   [382 KB]
  • From “‘Left-Wing’ Communism—An Infantile Disorder”   [1,266 KB]
  • “Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Second Congress of the Communist International”   [1,125 KB]
  • “Speech on the Role of the Communist Party at the Second Congress of the Communist International”   [268 KB]
  • “Report of the Commission on the National and Colonial Questions at the Second Congress of the Communist International”   [366 KB]
  • “Letter to the Austrian Communists”   [165 KB]
  • “Speech in Defence of the Tactics of the Communist International at the Third Congress of the Communist International”   [698 KB]
  • End Notes   [619 KB]
  • Name Index   [307 KB]

Revisionism and Opportunism:

• [Book:] Lenin’s Fight Against Revisionism and Opportunism, compiled by Cheng Yen-shih, (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965), 275 pages. [Note: This book is available in searchable PDF image format. It is now available as a single large PDF file, but because of the large size of the scanned book, each chapter has also been made available as a separate file.]
  • Entire Book in one large PDF file [11,999 KB]
  • Cover Image [JPG: 237 KB]
  • Title Page and Contents   [259 KB]
  • Chapter 1: Repudiating Economism and Bernsteinism   [664 KB]
  • Chapter 2: The Struggle for the Creation of a Revolutionary Proletarian Party of a New Type   [502 KB]
  • Chapter 3: The Fight Against the Opportunist Tactical Line in the 1905 Russian Revolution   [638 KB]
  • Chapter 4: The Struggle at the Stuttgart Congress   [442 KB]
  • Chapter 5: The Theoretical Struggle Against the Revisionists During the Ebb Tide of the Revolution   [504 KB]
  • Chapter 6: The Struggles Against the Liquidators, the Otzovists and Trotsky   [396 KB]
  • Chapter 7: The Copenhagen and Basle Congresses   [353 KB]
  • Chapter 8: The Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism   [369 KB]
  • Chapter 9: Exposing and Refuting Kautskyism   [558 KB]
  • Chapter 10: The Struggle Against Social-Pacifism   [294 KB]
  • Chapter 11: The Struggle Against Opportunism on the National Question and the National and Colonial Question   [541 KB]
  • Chapter 12: Uniting the Left and Holding Aloft the Banner of Proletarian Internationalism   [441 KB]
  • Chapter 13: The Struggle for the Great October Socialist Revolution   [800 KB]
  • Chapter 14: The Effort Which was Made Through Struggle to Achieve Peace and Peaceful Co-Existence   [631 KB]
  • Chapter 15: Upholding the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Class Struggle During the Period of Transition   [760 KB]
  • Chapter 16: The Establishment and Consolidation of the Third International on the Basis of the Surging Revolutionary Movement   [551 KB]
  • Chapter 17: Criticism of the “Left-Wing” Infantile Disorder in the Communist Movement   [939 KB]
  • Chapter 18: The Period of Transition to the New Economic Policy; the Struggle Against the Opportunist Factions of Trotsky, Bukharin and Others   [466 KB]
  • Chapter 19: Resolute Support for the Proletarian Revolution and the National-Liberation Movements Throughout the World   [595 KB]
  • Conclusion   [276 KB]
  • Bibliography: Lenin’s Principal Writings Against Revisionism and Opportunism   [239 KB]
    • German translation of this Bibliography [Thanks to K.S.!]   [18 KB]
  • Index   [532 KB]

Other Topics:

• [To be added]

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