What Use Is An Empty Weapon? An Amazon theorist once said that “women need a world view.” As I exit the dogmatic so-called “Maoist” movement in the United States and grapple with a clear eyed feeling of disillusionment, I’ve never been more convinced of the truth of those words. The
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Kersplebedeb: Free the Fujian Six! Open Letter from a Young Maoist Awaiting Prison [Chuang]
[This is translation was published to Chuangcn.org on January 10, 2022.] Just as 2022 began, the world received news that delivery worker and organizer Chen Guojiang, known as Mengzhu (??), had been freed after nearly a year in detention. But Mengzhu’s release by no means signified the loosening of control
Continue readingKersplebedeb: “Like we’re fighting for our lives…”: An Interview with Kenny Lake and Amil K. from the kites Editorial Committee
The third issue of kites: a journal of communist theory and strategy is available for pre-order now at leftwingbooks.net KERSPLEBEDEB: What is kites? Who produces it? Kenny Lake: kites published its first issue in January 2020, aiming to fill the need for communist theory and strategy for revolution in North
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Announcing kites: a new journal of communist theory & strategy
As the editorial to this new journal explains: In the American and Canadian prison systems, kites are “contraband” correspondence shared among inmates, and between inmates and those on the outside. Tiny, folded-up pieces of paper, kites are slipped past the watchful eyes of our tormentors, passed through commissary or along
Continue readingKersplebedeb: A Threat of the First Magnitude, reviewed by Don Hamerquist
available from leftwingbooks.net The recent book by Aaron Leonard and Conor Gallagher, “A Threat of the First Magnitude”, focuses on the FBI counterinsurgency operation against the Maoist sector of the left during the decade after 1968. The book provides important, impressively substantiated, insights into the development and application of state
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: The Maoist Enemy: China’s Challenge in 1960s East Germany
This article examines the challenge of Chinese communism in East Germany in the1960s. It shows how the Sino–Soviet Split and the Chinese Cultural Revolution endangered the public transcripts of East German state socialism by undermining its organizing metaphors and principles. Chinese cadres used their East Berlin embassy as a stage, showcase and megaphone for their dissenting vision of communism throughout the decade, winning some support from elderly communists, young anti-authoritarians and students from the Global South. Studying the East German campaign against what was known as ‘Mao Zedong Thought’ sheds light on the transnational traffic of actors and ideas within ………..READ MORE
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: How come so many UK leftists are Trots?
In Terry Bisson’s interview with Ken MacLeod in The Human Front (PM Press, 2013), there’s this great answer to Bisson’s question “How come so many UK leftists are Trots?” : Short answer: because Trotskyists in Britain moved fast on the CP’s crisis in the 1950s, and moved with the times
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Talking Nonsense Solves No Problems: Reply to an Open Response Letter Allegedly Written by the Amazons-August Collective and NAPLA to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party
The following is an essay Kevin “Rashid” Johnson just sent me and asked me to post. -k I recently received an “open letter” purporting to be from the Amazons-August 3rd Collective (AA3) and New Afrikan Peoples Liberation Army (NAPLA), which claims to respond to an article I wrote elaborating the New
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Vision of Fire #1: Maoism
i received a surprise in my mailbox last week, a zine entitled Visions of Fire, this first issue being devoted to Maoism. The editor has assembled some pieces both sympathetic and critical of maoism, as well as an introductory editorial situating their own position.The editor is more critical of Maoism
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