A list of popular and useful posts

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Popular and useful posts

The following are either the most popular posts I’ve written or ones that I most frequently refer people to.

On learning and practicing Maoism

What Maoism has to offer the world

How to learn everything a communist ought to know, from the beginning

Some suggestions on how to help others in your area become Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organizers


One list of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist classics and three other MLM reading guides

The General Political Line of the Communist Party of Peru

Strategy: Why we have no choice but to fight, and how we can win

A brief but thorough explanation of why armed revolution is necessary to end the abject suffering on this planet

Notes for a piece called something like “Who we’re up against and why they won’t go down without a fight”

How we can actually bring socialism to the united states

Why did capitalism come back in the socialist countries?


A few thoughts on the restoration of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in a socialist country

Why I think the people were genuinely in power in the socialist countries of the twentieth century, and why these examples reveal the route forward for humanity

Six ways you have to contextualize the socialist countries of the 20th century if you want to really understand


Problems with anarchism

On the typical anarchist rejection of nuance in discussing the USSR and the PRC


On the tension between worker-control-of-their-own-workplaces-ism and true socialization in a socialist economy

Communist ecology, capitalist ecocide, environmental catastrophe

The ecocide at the heart of capitalism: or, Why a profit-driven system can literally never solve global warming

The wild green communist cities of the future: On abolishing the distinction between country and city, between agriculture and industry

We must immediately begin to explain that the communist road offers a future for humanity even in the face of vast ecological crisis

Against electoral politics and reformism

Now that Sanders has lost,

The people alone are the motive force of history, and “Why not both voting and organizing?” is self-contradictory liberalism

Why it is harmful to advocate a vote for Clinton “to stop Trump” in our work to destroy fascism and capitalism

Against “market socialism”: Rebutting Richard Wolff on worker cooperatives versus a planned economy

On identity-reductionism and brocialism (chauvinist “Marxism”)

On identity-reductionism vs. experience-inclusive revolutionary theory



It is counterrevolutionary to demand that organizers withhold criticism from other organizers who face different types or degrees of oppression

On the incoherence of ordering someone to “self crit,” the arrogance and hostility of mechanical materialists, and one reason “tankies” is a good word for these dogmatists

Other things about Marxism/Maoism


On Maoism’s ability to incorporate and be strengthened by what is sometimes called spirituality (and a follow-up post that gets further into some ways I think these things fit into Maoism)



Some thoughts on white workers and the problems with “Third-Worldism”


Some thoughts on the all-pervading anticommunist propaganda in middle-class society, and on how our souls offer contradictory evidence to it

Personal political history

A not so terribly long and hopefully somewhat engaging story about how a libertarian became a communist


Some incomplete thoughts on addiction and communism

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