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Ce "Cours de Base" a été rédigé par le Parti communiste d'Inde (maoïste) afin qu'il serve de guide d'étude pour leurs cadres. Avec des chapitres concis, il donne un aperçu de l'histoire du marxisme-léninisme-maoïste et du mouvement communiste international.

Anuradha Ghandy, a Communist Party of India (Maoist) member, discusses the growth of the women's movement in rural India, the critique of patriarchal symbols and traditions, and the emergence of autonomous women's movements. They also explore radical feminist views on gender, reproduction, and liberation, women's role in just wars, anarchy and non-authoritarian organization, critiquing traditional Indian practices and eco-feminism, the role of socialist and Marxist women in the women's liberation movement, and strategies for socialism within the feminist movement.

In this podcast, they explore the tactics used during World War II, the rise of fascism and the danger of war, Mao's early years, his upbringing and political involvement, the political developments within the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong's teachings on revolutionary war and the New Democratic Republic, the socialist transformation of agriculture in China, the struggle against revisionism and capitalist restoration, the development of mass organizations and the role of the Red Guards, revolutionary situations and conflicts in Africa and beyond, and the organizational strength and global influence of Maoism.

Ce "Cours de Base" a été rédigé par le Parti communiste d'Inde (maoïste) afin qu'il serve de guide d'étude pour leurs cadres. Avec des chapitres concis, il donne un aperçu de l'histoire du marxisme-léninisme-maoïste et du mouvement communiste international.

The podcast discusses the establishment of the Iskra newspaper during the Russian revolution, the tactics and impact of the Bolsheviks, the rise of Soviets of workers and soldiers' deputies, Stalin's early life and revolutionary activities, and the shift in economic policy in the Soviet Union from war communism to the New Economic Policy (NEP). It also explores Mao's analysis of the Russian experience and his fight against Trotskyism.

Intro to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, emergence of Marxism, Engels' biography, utopian socialism, commodity exchange and exploitation, Marx's economic theory, link between Marxism and working class, Paris Commune, critique of Gotha Program, spread of Marxism in Russia

According to most historians, "until 1938, there was no organized resistance in Germany".  Its birth in 1939 is often attributed to aristocrats and the big bourgeoisie.  As for the workers, according to David Schoenbaum, "they failed, in any effective sense, to produce resistance.  Their marginal protest in the years 1933-39 was economic, not political, a matter of wages and hours not, it seems, of fundamental opposition." So what happened to the powerful German Communist Party then?  When the KPD was banned, its paramilitary formations numbered over 100,000 members.  The Antifa league had 250,000 members.  Nazi repression left activists who had been unable or unwilling to leave Germany with a choice between three mindsets.  Some, discouraged by the terrible defeat of the communist movement, deprived of leadership and intimidated by state terror, abandoned the struggle, and a small number collaborated with the regime.  But tens of thousands of communists adopted a position of resistance.  Party structures crumbled, cadres were imprisoned or exiled, sympathizers were watched.  But clandestine Party organizations were reconstituted very quickly, to be generally just as quickly dismantled...and rebuilt again.  This book tells the forgotten story of this communist resistance.  

Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer was written by Jose Maria Sison from his prison cell in 1981-1982. It is a comprehensive and modern introduction to the study of the three components of Marxism.

"Cet essai offre une réponse claire et directe à la question "La Chine est-elle toujours socialiste ?" en donnant une analyse objective des raisons de la défaite du socialisme en Chine." Repenser le Socialisme par Deng-yuan Hsu et Pao-yu Ching, édité en français par Éditions en Langues Étrangères, 2020

How can a country that developed the most advanced socialist society in the history of the world change directions so quickly and so completely? In From Victory to Defeat Pao-yu Ching dissects this question, providing economic analysis of what it means to actually “build socialism” with all of the necessary contradictions and obstacles that must be overcome. Addressing seven commonly asked questions, Pao-yu Ching gives accesible explanations to the complicated issues China faced in its socialist transition and the material basis for its capitalist reversal.