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Anuradha Ghandy was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) whose decades-spanning revolutionary career included the Indian student movement, the trade union movement, and work in the CPI (Maoist)-led people's war. Remembered by her comrades and the communities she worked and fought with as a tireless revolutionary, she is best known outside of India for her work on women's issues and questions of caste. Scripting the Change is a collection of Comrade Anu's most important works on the above-mentioned issues, as well as pieces on the revolutionary movement in India more broadly.  This episode contains the final part of "Caste Question in India."I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true 

On September 11, 1973, the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Chile was overthrown in an imperialist-backed coup d’état, leading to the death of president Salvador Allende and thousands of leftist activists and sympathizers over the course of decades of repressive dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.In “Chile: An Attempt at ‘Historic Compromise,’” author and Chilean Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) member Jorge Palacios paints a different picture of the Popular Unity government from the more sympathetic renderings of many non-revolutionary leftists, tracing the tragic implosion of the Chilean economy and eventual coup to the conciliatory “peaceful transition to socialism” model adopted by the Communist Party of Chile and the Popular Unity. By failing to adhere to Leninist principles and ignoring lessons learned in the Chinese revolution regarding the revolutionary path of semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries like Chile, these elements rendered the country vulnerable to manipulation and sabotage from within and without. Palacios’ analysis and the lessons of the Chilean experience are invaluable today, as so many progressive impulses in Latin America are funneled into electoralist politics that have failed to dig those countries out of the entrenched subservience to imperialism they find themselves in. This part includes the introduction and chapter 1.You can read this text at:https://archive.org/details/ChileJorgePalacios/mode/2upI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at: https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

On September 11, 1973, the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Chile was overthrown in an imperialist-backed coup d’état, leading to the death of president Salvador Allende and thousands of leftist activists and sympathizers over the course of decades of repressive dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.In “Chile: An Attempt at ‘Historic Compromise,’” author and Chilean Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) member Jorge Palacios paints a different picture of the Popular Unity government from the more sympathetic renderings of many non-revolutionary leftists, tracing the tragic implosion of the Chilean economy and eventual coup to the conciliatory “peaceful transition to socialism” model adopted by the Communist Party of Chile and the Popular Unity. By failing to adhere to Leninist principles and ignoring lessons learned in the Chinese revolution regarding the revolutionary path of semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries like Chile, these elements rendered the country vulnerable to manipulation and sabotage from within and without. Palacios’ analysis and the lessons of the Chilean experience are invaluable today, as so many progressive impulses in Latin America are funneled into electoralist politics that have failed to dig those countries out of the entrenched subservience to imperialism they find themselves in.This part includes chapter 2.You can read this text at:https://archive.org/details/ChileJorgePalacios/mode/2upI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

 Anuradha Ghandy was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) whose decades-spanning revolutionary career included the Indian student movement, the trade union movement, and work in the CPI (Maoist)-led people's war. Remembered by her comrades and the communities she worked and fought with as a tireless revolutionary, she is best known outside of India for her work on women's issues and questions of caste. Scripting the Change is a collection of Comrade Anu's most important works on the above-mentioned issues, as well as pieces on the revolutionary movement in India more broadly.  This episode contains the third part of "Caste Question in India."I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true 

Anuradha Ghandy was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) whose decades-spanning revolutionary career included the Indian student movement, the trade union movement, and work in the CPI (Maoist)-led people's war. Remembered by her comrades and the communities she worked and fought with as a tireless revolutionary, she is best known outside of India for her work on women's issues and questions of caste. Scripting the Change is a collection of Comrade Anu's most important works on the above-mentioned issues, as well as pieces on the revolutionary movement in India more broadly.This episode contains the second part of "Caste Question in India."I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Anuradha Ghandy was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) whose decades-spanning revolutionary career included the Indian student movement, the trade union movement, and work in the CPI (Maoist)-led people's war. Remembered by her comrades and the communities she worked and fought with as a tireless revolutionary, she is best known outside of India for her work on women's issues and questions of caste. Scripting the Change is a collection of Comrade Anu's most important works on the above-mentioned issues, as well as pieces on the revolutionary movement in India more broadly.This episode contains the introduction to the "Caste" section, as well as the first part of "Caste Question in India."I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Anuradha Ghandy was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) whose decades-spanning revolutionary career included the Indian student movement, the trade union movement, and work in the CPI (Maoist)-led people's war. Remembered by her comrades and the communities she worked and fought with as a tireless revolutionary, she is best known outside of India for her work on women's issues and questions of caste. Scripting the Change is a collection of Comrade Anu's most important works on the above-mentioned issues, as well as pieces on the revolutionary movement in India more broadly.This episode contains the preface, the foreword "...But Anuradha was different," and "Remembering Anuradha Ghandy: Friend, Comrade, Moving Spirit."I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Fundamentals of Political Economy, also known as the Shanghai Textbook, was originally published as part of the Youth Self-Education series, a book series intended to help the revolutionary youth cultivate their skills in the three component parts of Marxism: philosophy, political economy, and scientific socialism. It was published during the height of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and was explicit in its purpose as a weapon in the fight against revisionism and opportunism. As it says in the first chapter, without a strong foundation in political economy, we cannot fully understand, analyze and combat deviations from the red line and their proponents, such as Lin Biao and Liu Shaoqi at the time of this book's release.Note on Chinese pronunciation: Chinese words and names in this text are rendered in the Wade–Giles system of romanization. This system is today considered quite outdated, and its odd and seemingly arbitrary rendering of Chinese has led to many mispronunciations from foreign speakers. I have done my best to find the readings for these words in pinyin, the far superior system of Chinese romanization, and they will be pronounced that way, if not with the correct tones. To give some examples, you will hear: Mao Zedong, not Mao Tsetung; Beijing, not Peking; Hebei, not Hopei; Xinjiang, not Sinkiang; Zhang Chunqiao, not Chang Chun-chiao. I also take the liberty of replacing Canton with the Chinese Guangzhou. However, I do not pronounce Chiang Kai-shek as Jiang Jieshi, figuring that the latter would be unfamiliar to most listeners and would cause confusion.This is the 1977 M.E. Sharpe publication of the text, with an introduction by George C. Wang. A free version of this text can be read on Banned Thought or at the link below:http://www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/PoliticalEconomy/FundamentalsOfPoliticalEconomy-Shanghai-1974-English-OCR-SinglePage.pdfI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Fundamentals of Political Economy, also known as the Shanghai Textbook, was originally published as part of the Youth Self-Education series, a book series intended to help the revolutionary youth cultivate their skills in the three component parts of Marxism: philosophy, political economy, and scientific socialism. It was published during the height of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and was explicit in its purpose as a weapon in the fight against revisionism and opportunism. As it says in the first chapter, without a strong foundation in political economy, we cannot fully understand, analyze and combat deviations from the red line and their proponents, such as Lin Biao and Liu Shaoqi at the time of this book's release.Note on Chinese pronunciation: Chinese words and names in this text are rendered in the Wade–Giles system of romanization. This system is today considered quite outdated, and its odd and seemingly arbitrary rendering of Chinese has led to many mispronunciations from foreign speakers. I have done my best to find the readings for these words in pinyin, the far superior system of Chinese romanization, and they will be pronounced that way, if not with the correct tones. To give some examples, you will hear: Mao Zedong, not Mao Tsetung; Beijing, not Peking; Hebei, not Hopei; Xinjiang, not Sinkiang; Zhang Chunqiao, not Chang Chun-chiao. I also take the liberty of replacing Canton with the Chinese Guangzhou. However, I do not pronounce Chiang Kai-shek as Jiang Jieshi, figuring that the latter would be unfamiliar to most listeners and would cause confusion.This is the 1977 M.E. Sharpe publication of the text, with an introduction by George C. Wang. A free version of this text can be read on Banned Thought or at the link below:http://www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/PoliticalEconomy/FundamentalsOfPoliticalEconomy-Shanghai-1974-English-OCR-SinglePage.pdfI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Fundamentals of Political Economy, also known as the Shanghai Textbook, was originally published as part of the Youth Self-Education series, a book series intended to help the revolutionary youth cultivate their skills in the three component parts of Marxism: philosophy, political economy, and scientific socialism. It was published during the height of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and was explicit in its purpose as a weapon in the fight against revisionism and opportunism. As it says in the first chapter, without a strong foundation in political economy, we cannot fully understand, analyze and combat deviations from the red line and their proponents, such as Lin Biao and Liu Shaoqi at the time of this book's release.Note on Chinese pronunciation: Chinese words and names in this text are rendered in the Wade–Giles system of romanization. This system is today considered quite outdated, and its odd and seemingly arbitrary rendering of Chinese has led to many mispronunciations from foreign speakers. I have done my best to find the readings for these words in pinyin, the far superior system of Chinese romanization, and they will be pronounced that way, if not with the correct tones. To give some examples, you will hear: Mao Zedong, not Mao Tsetung; Beijing, not Peking; Hebei, not Hopei; Xinjiang, not Sinkiang; Zhang Chunqiao, not Chang Chun-chiao. I also take the liberty of replacing Canton with the Chinese Guangzhou. However, I do not pronounce Chiang Kai-shek as Jiang Jieshi, figuring that the latter would be unfamiliar to most listeners and would cause confusion.This is the 1977 M.E. Sharpe publication of the text, with an introduction by George C. Wang. A free version of this text can be read on Banned Thought or at the link below:http://www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/PoliticalEconomy/FundamentalsOfPoliticalEconomy-Shanghai-1974-English-OCR-SinglePage.pdfI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true