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In imperialist countries like the US, many oppose capitalism and are engaged in the struggle against its countless injustices. Far fewer are engaged with the intention and determination not only to win the protracted struggle, but to prepare ourselves in a systematic way for what we will need to construct in its place. Released as a pamphlet in the early 1970’s, Education To Govern is the result of James Boggs and the Advocators and the All-African People Union to attempt to map out a plan in education to develop our capacity to govern ourselves - not for the bourgeoisie, but for the people.

Vicki Legion, a prominent San Francisco Bay Area activist from the 1970s and author of "Constructive Criticism: A Handbook," shares her insights on the art of critique in social movements. She discusses the resurgence of activism today and the ongoing challenges for marginalized communities. Legion emphasizes the importance of constructive criticism in fostering unity and addressing ideological divides, exploring how to navigate feedback effectively. She also delves into the emotional costs of alienation in capitalism and the transformative power of criticism in revolutionary contexts.

“Marxism is a scientific theory that grasps the laws of the development of society and bases itself on practice for making history. Post-modernist thoughts stand against this, and any rational thinking. Revisionism, seen (posing) as Marxism, is a vulgarisation of the original, depriving it of its scientific essence, and making it, therefore, unattractive to those who desire change.”

“Marxism is a scientific theory that grasps the laws of the development of society and bases itself on practice for making history. Post-modernist thoughts stand against this, and any rational thinking. “Revisionism, seen (posing) as Marxism, is a vulgarisation of the original, depriving it of its scientific essence, and making it, therefore, unattractive to those who desire change.”

Written between 1965 and 1967 at a time when the Communist movement in India was at a crossroads between parliamentarism and the path of the people’s war, these Historic Eight Documents were the main ideological basis of the Naxalbari uprising. They continue to have a deep influence on those who persevered in waging this protracted struggle of over 50 years.

Since the economic crisis of 2008, the concept of social class emerged again as central in critical theory. Temporarily eclipsed in the metropoles by the focus on other sites of oppression, the possible return of class and class struggle to the centre of academic and activist discourse brings with it the same economism that other radical conceptions of politics seemed to displace. Politics in Command seeks to understand what economism is, how it is deployed through socialist analyses, and the ways in which various categories (economy, politics, class, practice, revolution, etc.) are mobilized and classified according to its imaginary.

Essays in part 2 include: The Maoist Party, The Working of the Neo-Colonial Mind, Politics of Liberation, among others.

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. The essays not only delve into critique and analysis of contradictions in the world today, but also investigate questions about the basis for a materialist ethics, the politics of liberation, and the essential qualities of a vanguard party in current times.

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

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.