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Contents
Publisher Note
INTRODUCTION
PART I
HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF
MARXISM - LENINISM - MAOISM
I . ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND TO THE BIRTH
OF MARXISM
The Industrial Revolution
The French Revolution
The Bourgeois Democratic Revolutions
Conditions of the Proletariat
Working Class Consciousness and Proletarian Organisations
II. MAIN IDEOLOGICAL CURRENTS LEADING
UP TO MARXISM
The Enlightment
Bourgeois Liberalism
Classical Political Economy
Socialist Theories
German Classical Philosophy
III. THE BIRTH OF MARXISM
Early Life of Marx and Engels
The Hegelian Left
Contact with Socialist and Revolutionary
Thought
Study of Political Economy
Discovery of the Materialist Conception
of History
Elaboration of Basic Principles of
Marxism
Revolutionary Activity
The Communist Manifesto
IV. THE FIRST PERIOD: 1848 - 1871
Economic Boom
Marx’s Analysis of Capitalism
The 1848 Revolution
Marx and Engels During the 1848 Revolution
Other Revolutions in this Period
Formation of the International
Workingmen’s Association
Fight against Wrong Trends in the First International
The Paris
Commune and the First International
V. THE SECOND PERIOD: 1871 - 1905
Political Background
Economic Background
Fight against Opportunism in the German Party
Spread of Marxism
Opportunism in the Second International
Fight against Bernsteinian Revisionism
Lenin’s Early Years
Fight against Narodism
Fight against Economism
Fight against Menshevism
VI. THE THIRD PERIOD: 1905 - 1917
Political Background
The Russian Bourgeois Revolution of 1905
Two Tactics — the political preparation of the Party
Revolutions in the East
Second International on Colonialism and War
Fight against Revisionist Theories
World War I and Social Chauvinism
Bolshevik Position on the War
Analysis of Imperialism
Marxism and the National Question
February Bourgeois Revolution in Russia
Onwards to the Socialist Revolution
The State and Revolution
VII. THE FOURTH PERIOD: 1917 - 1949
Period of Historic Advances
Fight against the ‘Left’ Communists
War Communism
World-wide Revolutionary Crisis
Ideological and Political Foundations of the Third International
The NEP and the Trotskyite Opposition
Stalin’s Early Years
Foundations of Leninism
Socialist Industrialisation and Collectivisation of Agriculture
Errors of Stalin
Crisis of Capitalism
Rise of Fascism and Threat of World War
Third International’s Perspective on War and Fascism
World War II and the Tactics of the International Proletariat
Mao’s Early Years
Path of Revolution in the Colonies and Semi-Colonies
Establishment of Red Bases and Fight against various ‘Left’ Lines
Tactics for the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance
Mao’s Other Contributions to Marxism-Leninism in this Period
Victory of the Chinese People’s Revolution
Establishment of the Socialist Camp
VIII. THE FIFTH PERIOD: 1949
- 1976
Second Stage of General
Crisis
Chinese Path of Revolution
Expansion of the World Economy
Modern Revisionism and
Collapse of the Socialist Camp
The Great Debate
Two-Line Struggle against
Capitalist Roaders
Political Economy of Socialism
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Establishment of Maoism as New Stage of Marxism-Leninism
Revival of Revolutionary Movements
Some ‘Left’ Ideological Currents in this Period
Deng Revisionism and the Loss of All Socialist Bases
IX. THE SIXTH PERIOD: 1976
ONWARDS
Crisis of Imperialism
Reorganisation of Revolutionary Forces
Some Anti-Marxist Ideological Trends
Advance to Final Victory
guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
PART II
THE COMPONENT
PARTS OF
MARXISM - LENINISM - MAOISM
X. PHILOSOPHY
Philosophical Materialism
Dialectics
The Materialist Conception of History
Lenin's Contribution to the
Development of
Marxist Philosophy
Mao's Contribution to the Development of Marxist Philosophy
XI. POLITICAL ECONOMY
Contribution of Marx and
Engels
Contribution of Lenin
Contribution of Mao
Economic Laws of Socialism
XII. SOCIALISM
1. SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM
Theory of Class Struggle
Socialism in One Country
2. THE SOCIALIST STATE
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
The People’s Democratic Dictatorship
3. SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION
The Russian Experience
Socialist Industrialisation
Collectivisation
of Agriculture
Victory of Socialism and
Preliminary Conditions for Transition to Communism
Errors in
Russian Experience
The Chinese Experience
General Line and Step-by-Step
Collectivisation
Mao’s Development of Dialectical Approach to
Socialist Construction
Great Leap Forward and
the Birth of People’s Communes
Struggle against
the Capitalist Roaders
4. THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Capitalist Restoration of the
Soviet Union: Historical Lessons
The Cultural Revolution: A Form Found Anew
The Targets of the Revolution
Mass-Line in the Revolution
Historical Relevance of the Cultural Revolution
XIII. TACTICS OF THE CLASS
STRUGGLE
OF THE PROLETARIAT
1. BASIC PRINCIPLES
Marx’s Theoretical Basis
Leninist Tactical Principles
The Three Magic Weapons
2. BOURGEOIS-DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION AND PROLETARIAN-SOCIALIST
REVOLUTION
3. TACTICS IN THE ABOVE THREE STAGES OF REVOLUTION
The Worker-Peasant Alliance
Leadership of the Proletariat
Lenin's Thesis on National and Colonial Question
Enrichment and Development of
the Leninist Thesis on United Front by Mao
4. FORMS OF STRUGGLE
Forms of Armed Revolution
Mao's Theory of Protracted People’s War
5. TACTICS DURING WAR
Just and Unjust Wars
Tactics during Imperialist War
Mao’s Development of the Line
on World War and Peace
XIV. THE PARTY
Marx and Engels on the Working Class Party
The Party of a New Type
Democratic Centralism
Mass-Line
Two-Line Struggle
XV. THE NATIONAL QUESTION
Marxist Understanding Regarding Early Nationality Movements
Leninist Linking of the
National and Colonial Question
National Liberation Struggles
CONCLUSION
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