Category: Dogma

On Social Fascism “One may say without exaggeration that the most central task of our days (nay, perhaps even of our entire epoch) is to defeat social-democracy, the main factor of the international counter revolution.”- Clara Zetkin [Speech to the Fourth Comintern Congress, 1922] Introduction Any theorization of social democracy as social fascism will necessarily [...]

“The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution.” – VI Lenin, The Dual Power   Marxist Center, and especially its supporters in the Seattle area and to a lesser extent Philadelphia [...]

"History, fortunately, dispels all doubts and clears up all ambiguities." -- Jose Carlo Mariategui. [JCM2] In our previous article, The Black August Contradiction, the history of repression and rebellion within the Black Nation is detailed. In this follow-up, we theorize the centrality of the Black Nation within the overall struggle for national liberation and socialism [...]

On the right opportunist, revisionist, and liquidationist, theory of J. Moufawad Paul Classical Trotskyite critiques of Marxism-Leninism tend to frame themselves as an attack on “Stalinism” which is not actually a political tendency but a slur term used to void the teachings of Lenin via an attack on the leadership of Stalin (this is now [...]

Turning the prison into a shining trench of combat “What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And the courage never to submit or yield.” —Milton “In pitch darkness, just before dawn the owners of darkness came for us once again. . . . [...]

Lucanamarca 1983 and revolutionary violence   “Even quite progressive people said, ‘Though terrible, it is inevitable in a revolution.’ In short, nobody could altogether deny the word ‘terrible.’ . . . The fact is that the great peasant masses have risen to fulfil their historic mission and that the forces of rural democracy have risen [...]

(Read by Lee Hanbyul) Some thoughts on social media I was recently turned on to “communist” twitter, while I had been appalled and disgusted by “left –book” for some time I had not encountered the living hell that is left-twitter, upon investigating it and the bizarre interactions that take place there, I was confronted with [...]

Editor's note: We are republishing a corrected and updated version of this text, which is not only a sharp refutation of the revisionism of Joshua Moufawad-Paul, but also a useful intervention into the questions of the party, the two-line struggle and how proletarian ideology develops. Article written by Kavga In only a few days, author [...]

Book Review of: A Threat of the First Magnitude, FBI Counterintelligence & infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-74 In this follow up to Heavy Radicals, the FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists, authors Aaron J Leonard and Connor A Gallagher drop a treasure trove of  documents and research showing just how [...]

Editors Note: We are republishing this essay, which was one of our first publications as a journal, in light of our upcoming first print publication. by Kavga One prominent thread linking various rightist and revisionist strains of thought is the distortion of or attack upon the mass line. Some who claim to adhere to the [...]