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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 This system is today considered quite outdated, and its odd and seemingly arbitrary rendering of Chinese has led to many mispronunciations from foreign speakers.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: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: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

Panther Vision is a collection of writings and art by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson, Minister of Defense of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party. Following his imprisonment in 1990, Rashid began a process of political development that led him to become an implacable defender of the rights of his fellow prisoners and a revolutionary activist dedicated to the liberation of New Afrikans and all oppressed peoples. While Rashid has continued to evolve as a revolutionary thinker and organizer, splitting from the New Afrikan Black Panther Party in 2020 with the bulk of that party's members to found the RIBPP, Panther Vision remains filled with insights on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, revolutionary organizing, Amerikan racial capitalism, and more.Rashid is currently being denied medical treatment in retaliation for his political agitation and in an offensive against revolutionary organizing more broadly, especially by New Afrikans. Click the link below to read the RIBPP's updates on his health and learn how you can participate in the ongoing campaign to hold the Virginia Department of Corrections to account and get Rashid care:https://linktr.ee/ribppYou can purchase this book, along with Rashid's previous book, Defying the Tomb, from Kersplebedeb:https://leftwingbooks.net/en-us/products/panther-visionRashid has a Patreon account where you can defray his telephone fees and legal expenses: https://www.patreon.com/rashidmod/postsClick on the link below to learn more about my audiobooks and translations:https://linktr.ee/natu_reads

The Mariátegui Project is a project from Natú Pizzella, who also makes free audiobooks of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and other revolutionary content. This project comes in response to the relative lack of availability of José Carlos Mariátegui’s works in English. Other than an anthology of his works released by Monthly Review Press, and his Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, the vast majority of his writings remain inaccessible to most English speakers. The goal of this project, then, is to slowly but surely make the remainder of Mariátegui’s works available in English. This is a reading of a translation available on the Mariátegui Project website.Read this and other Mariátegui translations here:https://jcm-project.com/I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or 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: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

The Mariátegui Project is a project from Natú Pizzella, who also makes free audiobooks of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and other revolutionary content. This project comes in response to the relative lack of availability of José Carlos Mariátegui’s works in English. Other than an anthology of his works released by Monthly Review Press, and his Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, the vast majority of his writings remain inaccessible to most English speakers. The goal of this project, then, is to slowly but surely make the remainder of Mariátegui’s works available in English. This is a reading of a translation available on the Mariátegui Project website.Read this and other Mariátegui translations here:https://jcm-project.com/I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or 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

One of the biggest points of contention in the International Communist Movement at the present time is the question of Protracted People's War (PPW). Is it universal, or unique to semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries? Is it the same as People's War, or should we distinguish between the two? Just what do we mean when we talk about PPW? This collection of polemical exchanges seeks to clarify the two lines of this debate in the hopes that readers will engage with the question in an informed way. This part features the end of To Discard People's War is to Discard Proletarian Revolution, I, and all of To Discard People's War is to Discard Proletarian Revolution, II by the Red Flag Editorial Group.Download the PDF of this collection here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rr1h5hP8C-ktERJZrfnymYe4xWchRhn1/viewI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or 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

One of the biggest points of contention in the International Communist Movement at the present time is the question of Protracted People's War (PPW). Is it universal, or unique to semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries? Is it the same as People's War, or should we distinguish between the two? Just what do we mean when we talk about PPW? This collection of polemical exchanges seeks to clarify the two lines of this debate in the hopes that readers will engage with the question in an informed way.This part features more of To Discard People's War is to Discard Proletarian Revolution, I by the Red Flag Editorial Group.Download the PDF of this collection here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rr1h5hP8C-ktERJZrfnymYe4xWchRhn1/viewI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or 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

One of the biggest points of contention in the International Communist Movement at the present time is the question of Protracted People's War (PPW). Is it universal, or unique to semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries? Is it the same as People's War, or should we distinguish between the two? Just what do we mean when we talk about PPW? This collection of polemical exchanges seeks to clarify the two lines of this debate in the hopes that readers will engage with the question in an informed way. This part features the pieces "Universality of People's War" Debate Heats Up On Eve of Maoist China's 70th Founding Day by Andy Belisario, and the first part of To Discard People's War is to Discard Proletarian Revolution, I by the Red Flag Editorial Group.Download the PDF of this collection here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rr1h5hP8C-ktERJZrfnymYe4xWchRhn1/viewI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or 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

One of the biggest points of contention in the International Communist Movement at the present time is the question of Protracted People's War (PPW). Is it universal, or unique to semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries? Is it the same as People's War, or should we distinguish between the two? Just what do we mean when we talk about PPW? This collection of polemical exchanges seeks to clarify the two lines of this debate in the hopes that readers will engage with the question in an informed way.This part features the pieces Again in Defence of the Universality of Protracted People's War by Ard Kinera, and On the So-Called Universality of Protracted People's War by Andy Belisario.Download the PDF of this collection here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rr1h5hP8C-ktERJZrfnymYe4xWchRhn1/viewI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or 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