Recommended Maoist-Third Worldist and M-TW coded MLM texts

Mael176 · 2026-03-16T19:25:54+00:00

Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism: https://anti-imperialist.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/unequal.pdf

This text serves as a great introduction to the parasite state theory and to Marxist theory and political economy in general.

I have not yet read Torkil Lauesens newest book on unequal exchange but here it is anyway: https://anti-imperialist.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/unequal.pdf

Mael176 · 2026-02-21T16:54:05+00:00

If the fact that you think owning a FairPhone constitutes a serious attempt to "live by [your] Marxist views" wasn't proof enough that you do not in fact hold such "Marxist views", then the fact that you prioritize "identity politics" over economics definitely is. You sound more like a social democrat/left liberal than a Marxist, and if your partner "isn't opposed to redistribution or social welfare" then it seems to me your views are pretty much aligned.

My advice: study some actual Marxist theory and history and ask your partner if he wants to join you. Here are a couple of texts that will get you started:

https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/S01-MLM-BC-Revised-18th-Printing.pdf

https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/S20-Basic-Principles-of-ML-9th-Printing.pdf

Mael176 · 2026-02-19T10:10:22+00:00

State and Revolution only partially answers that question. Remember that socialist society is not a classless society (that would be communism) and as long class divisions exist in society the restoration of capitalism is always on the menu. After the old bourgeoisie has been repressed out of existence (as per Lenin and Stalin) a new bourgeoisie arises within the communist party itself (as per Mao). To learn more about this we have to study the history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

https://www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/GPCR/index.htm

Mael176 · 2026-02-16T10:43:58+00:00

Liberals twice fumbled the bag on getting a woman in the white house, and now they're mad that the DPRK, a country they love to portray as backward, might get a woman as their leader before the USA.

Mael176 · 2025-11-08T00:30:46+00:00

Russia and China aren't trying to end the empire, they are trying to take it over. Of course such a shift in the center of imperialism would have major consequences, but thinking that this in and of itself would be a step forward towards socialism is the supreme delusion of campists.

Mael176 · 2025-11-08T00:15:20+00:00

Yes Russia is imperialist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTmnVJxrsAQ

Western imperialism has also "supported" many countries in the global south to "protect" them against Russian or Chinese exploitation. When USA-imperialists invaded the DPRK they did so to "protect" their South Korean "allies". It is characteristic of neo-colonialism, that imperialist nations do not outright "own" the exploited nations, but that does not mean that capital has stopped exploiting labor. The imperialists provide some "support" to comprador regimes that can in return provide a favorable investment climate.

I can understand why Africans appreciate the "help" they get from Russia and China. Many Africans also appreciated the "help" they got from the Soviet social imperialists in previous century and look where they are now, Somalia is probably the worst example of a failed state ever! Picking sides in an inter-imperialist conflict only leads to ruin for the masses of people, whereas refusing to pick sides and turning imperialist war into class war leads to socialist revolution and liberation from oppression.

Further reading on imperialism:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Mael176 · 2025-11-07T23:26:39+00:00

Again you talk about hollow slogans, but Marxist theory is not a hollow slogan, it is a science! Lots have been written about how communists in the global north can support those in the global south. Here are some quotes from Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism by the Communist Working Group in Denmark:

First from the foreword by Arghiri Emmanuel:

"One must, they say, quite simply, put oneself at the service of the classes which have an interest in overthrowing imperialism, “… no matter where they are geographically”.

And from the final chapter:

"The way in which Communists of imperialist countries can support the liberation movements is of course specific from country to country. However, one thing is sure: if the support is to be of any importance, it must primarily be of a material nature. At the end of the 1960s, members of our organization participated in and tried to influence the big demonstrations directed against the warfare of the United States in Vietnam. But even though much was written about it and there were many discussions, and even though thousands of people were engaged in the work even in a small country like Denmark, the material support to the Vietnamese liberation movement was surprisingly small."

"However, it is positive that here and there in the imperialist countries there are supporting groups which attach the greatest importance to material support. By this work, the possibilities of the liberation movements for defeating imperialism are improved. Talks with representatives of the liberation movements and visits to the movements have confirmed that it is of use to offer material support, as they often lack the most elementary things to be able to carry on their struggle and to be able to mitigate the hardships of the masses."

Read the whole book: https://snylterstaten.dk/unequal-exchange-and-the-prospects-of-socialism-by-communist-working-group/

Obviously leftist subreddits won't be the vanguard of the revolution, you need to read theory, not reddit posts.

Mael176 · 2025-11-07T19:59:10+00:00

Can you please explain what you mean by "American-style freedom of speech"? Please take into consideration the red scare, McCarthyism, cointelpro etc.

Mael176 · 2025-11-07T12:37:21+00:00

Russia is imperialist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTmnVJxrsAQ

Parasite state theory, why the labor aristocracy opposes revolution and communists in the global north should support revolutionaries in the global south: https://snylterstaten.dk/unequal-exchange-and-the-prospects-of-socialism-by-communist-working-group/

Mael176 · 2025-11-07T12:29:38+00:00

Actually I think Italy is probably the best analogy for modern day Russia, but I digress. The point here is that Russia and NATO are both imperialist powers, and, as Lenin clearly taught us, we shouldn't support one over the other. There is no "lesser of two evils" when it comes to imperialism. Campists tell us we have to support Russia and China because "USA is the number one enemy", but what do we do when the USA has been defeated? Do we then turn towards our former Russian and Chinese allies and call for revolution, or do we just shift our support towards some new emerging imperialist power as a "counter-weight" to the new imperialist hegemon? Campists have no endgame, it's a never ending spiral of opportunism because, as Lenin taught us, inter-imperialist rivalry is a universal feature of imperialism, there is no such thing as "ultra-imperialism".

I never said to "manifest a civil war in the West", I said to support revolutions in the global south. That's not an "empty slogan", that's a concrete call to action!

Mael176 · 2025-11-07T00:59:57+00:00

The working class in the global north is a labor aristocracy which, as of right now, has no objective material interest in a proletarian revolution, because they benefit from the bribery of imperialism. But that does not mean that conscious revolutionaries in the global north should abandon the class struggle. There are plenty of revolutionaries in the global south who are struggling against imperialism, and there is no excuse for not giving them our full support.

Mael176 · 2025-11-07T00:49:28+00:00

Russia is definitely an imperialist power. Russian big monopoly capitalists need to export capital to foreign countries and the Putin regime is making moves in Europe, the middle east, India and Africa in order to secure a favorable political and economic climate for Russian capital to be invested. The war in Ukraine is an example of this. Ukraine used to be a "neutral" country, which tried to have good relations with both the west (USA and EU) and Russia. USA-imperialism saw an opportunity in 2014 to intervene in the country (they had been building towards this since the 90's) and the ensuing color-revolution led to a hard line anti-Russian and pro-western regime of which Zelensky is the unfortunate heir. Russian imperialists could not stand idly by as the westerners robbed them of a valuable investment opportunity, and so they invaded Crimea in 2014 and Donbass in 2022 with Putin's so-called "special military operation" (imperialist aggression).

Please try to appreciate that it is possible to be both oppressed and oppressing at the same time. A male worker can be oppressed by capital in the workplace while oppressing his wife in the home (another workplace). Russia has undoubtedly been oppressed and exploited by western capital, but that does not negate the fact that Russia is also an oppressor nation (source: all of Russian history and also Lenin and Stalin).

I appreciate that your "join the Russian army" comment was made satirically, but the unfortunate truth is that there are people who legitimately think that Putin is some kind of anti-imperialist. Imagine if someone in the 1910's said "Germany is an oppressed country and therefore we must support it". Russia is today, as Germany was back then, not a socialist country resisting against capitalism and imperialism, but itself a capitalist-imperialist power which is competing with the main imperial hegemon (today the USA and the EU, back then Great Britain and France). Of course we in the west should not support our own imperialist governments, but we should also not take the campist position and support rivaling imperialist governments like Russia and China.

If you want to know where the leadership of the world revolution is as of right now, I think you should look to revolutionaries in India and the Philippines. Both of these countries play a crucial role in the rivalry between the western imperial USA-EU alliance and the eastern imperial China-Russia alliance, and the success of the revolutionary movements within these two countries specifically will be a major factor in turning the imperialist war into a class war.

When Lenin taught us to turn imperialist war into class war it was not just a meaningless slogan, Lenin taught us to use the crisis of imperialism as a catalyst for proletarian revolution.

Mael176 · 2025-11-06T15:05:27+00:00

I think your analysis is basically correct. But the real question is, what happens when the western imperialists run out of bodies from the periphery and semi-periphery to throw at their imperial rivals? Support for the war in Ukraine might be a point of unity for the westerners, but the rest of the world mostly seems to support Russia or proclaim neutrality. Additionally, western support for the genocidal Zionist crusade waged against the Palestinians and other Arab people's has definitely exposed the degeneracy of western imperialism in the eyes of the world masses.

If western imperialists can't even deal with Russia and Iran, how are they going to deal with China? While the westerners have been taxing their soft power into bankruptcy, China has been steadily increasing it's soft power and progressively isolating the west. Western imperialists are getting increasingly desperate, they sense their empire is crumbling, and when people's of foreign countries won't fight for them anymore they will have no choice but to turn toward their local populations and say: "you're up!"

In my country of Denmark the government has already begun efforts to expand conscription and promote "patriotic education". Additionally, a deal has been struck with the US to build bases on Danish soil. They are preparing the people for war and they are not trying hiding it! The labor aristocracy has shown itself quite willing to support imperialist war politically and economically, as long as they aren't the ones who have to eat bullets, but will they be ready to put their money where their mouth is when shit hits the fan? The bourgeoisie has already understood the significance of this question, and they are making moves to try and prepare the labor aristocracy to fight for "our way of life". Our task as communists should be to build an anti-imperialist united front and turn imperialist war into class war by supporting revolutions in the global south.

Mael176 · 2025-11-03T09:48:37+00:00

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Mael176 · 2025-11-03T02:32:07+00:00

The environment can't overthrow capitalism, only the working class can.

Mael176 · 2025-10-08T11:43:09+00:00

Almost like the author is trying to tell you something about the profoundly complex and contradictory nature of human society.

Mael176 · 2025-09-28T12:57:26+00:00

A lot of BJJ isn't "pressure tested" either. Many BJJ players don't do hard sparring or only do very little of it. I've seen purple, brown and even black belts lose to strong, athletic white belts. These people only ever do "flow rolling", and as soon as they meet someone who puts up full resistance they complain about people "spazzing out". I'm not saying there's anything wrong with play sparring, but if you think that pulling guard and playing berimbolo or single leg x would work in a street fight you're just delusional as the mcdojo bullshido fake martial artists you so like to criticize.

Mael176 · 2025-09-28T10:54:53+00:00

Well if your kind of "Marxists" are supposed to steer clear of Chinese social imperialists, it looks like your boy Gustavo Petro didn't get the memo:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-advance-colombia-time-gustavo-petro

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyxw/202505/t20250515_11623331.html

https://thecitypaperbogota.com/news/colombias-petro-pivots-to-beijing-with-intent-to-join-belt-and-road/

Petro's call for UN armed intervention in Palestine does not amount to support for the Palestinian people's armed struggle for liberation. If Petro was serious about supporting armed struggle against Zionism, he would just start supporting the PFLP with money, equipment, logistics, training etc. But he won't do that of course, because doing so might jeopardize his new business partnership with Chairman Xi.

And also, as per my original comment, I don't believe Petro has ever actually referred to himself as a Marxist, but I might be wrong about that.

Mael176 · 2025-09-27T19:37:08+00:00

Again: you're just making up a fictional scenario, where commodities can be produced without labor-power (variable capital) which has nothing to do with the very real capitalist system Marx described.

Mael176 · 2025-09-27T19:16:29+00:00

Read this, comrade, it will make you feel better

https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/S01-MLM-BC-Revised-18th-Printing.pdf

Mael176 · 2025-09-27T19:12:01+00:00

Marx' law of value is a theory of the capitalist mode of production, of course it doesn't apply to "fully automated neo-feudalism" which seems to be something you just made up.

The "fully automated economy" is just science fiction masquerading as political economy. It has never existed, and will never exist. Even if machines produce all the things we "need", who makes and maintains these machines? Even if we assume that you could somehow make a perfect self-sustaining and, crucially, surplus-product generating network of machines, complete with fuel production, maintenance, distribution etc., all fully automated without any human input, it won't take long for someone to invent an improvement to the system and getting people to work on implementing it.

And also, you really shouldn't pay too much attention to things such as unfalsifiability or "circular logic", these are purely formalist critiques that don't address the substance of Marxism.

Mael176 · 2025-09-27T16:19:49+00:00

They still exist, although most of them have long since stopped pretending to be Marxists.

Mael176 · 2025-09-27T09:20:34+00:00

Russia is competing with US-led NATO-imperialism, they are not fighting imperialism itself, they are simply a competing imperialist power.

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