A podcast on revolutionary theory for revolutionary practice.
In addition to inviting you to join in on a profoundly inspiring educational opportunity, I reflect on what I think have been some some pretty major weaknesses in Mass Struggle.Join the Revolutionary Marxist Students comrades for a summer study, totally online (except where in-person is available!). Facilitators from all schools and chapters will be leading up this 6-week course. This study is not just for students, but is for workers too! Contact RMS as soon as possible at RMSNC@disroot.org.Follow RMS on Instagram: @marxist_studentsSupport Mass Struggle: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePodContact me: massstrugglepod@protonmail.comMusic: Space Baby is a revolutionary wrapper and artist. Intro/Outro: "Mount Tai"Support the Show.
[Repost from Revolutionary Left Radio] - This episode aims to serve as an introduction to the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL) which was the vehicle through which the communists in the U.S. from 1920-1935 aimed to base themselves amongst the proletariat and transform the labor movement into, as Marx said, an "organizing centre of the working class for its broad interest of complete emancipation." We focus particularly on the TUEL's activity from 1920-1929.Topics discussed are the need for revolutionary theory for a revolutionary movement, the role of the industrial proletariat in a proletarian socialist struggle, the shortcomings of William Z. Foster's prior two syndicalist leagues that operated from 1912-1917, and the work of TUEL militants in the mining, needle trades, and textile industries.Interested in studying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and applying Marxism to the labor movement? Contact us: aj5284@proton.me; LenniM17@proton.me; massstrugglepod@protonmail.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@protonmail.comMusic: Space Baby is a revolutionary wrapper and artist. Intro/Outro: "Mount Tai"Support the show
Former Revolutionary Marxist Students, Audrey and Lenni, discuss their recent article on the Teamsters Mobilize Vote No campaign, the ways in which the Tentative Agreement and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union leadership betrays UPS workers and the entire working class, how opportunists misguide the workers in their struggle against their oppressors, and what the tasks of Marxist in the labor movement are today.Find the article here: https://cosmonautmag.com/2023/08/the-ups-struggle-and-the-tasks-of-marxists-in-the-labor-movement/Contact Audrey and Lenni by emailing them at: aj5284@proton.me; LenniM17@proton.meCheck out Revolutionary Marxist Student's journal Red Horizon: https://marxiststudents.wordpress.com/red-horizon/Read William Z. Foster's From Bryan to Stalin: https://www.bannedthought.net/USA/CPUSA/WZFoster/WZFoster-FromBryanToStalin-1937-OCR-sm1.pdfListen to Space Baby's "Vote No": https://open.spotify.com/album/1FNUwy7li7s6uiIEVyJmFC?si=JRSFH4FFQNmsKV8hvfYQWASupport the show
Jacki and Rajeeb of Revolutionary Marxist Students introduce us to the thinking and methods of struggle behind this revolutionary student organization. We discuss the importance of revolutionary theory for a revolutionary movement, the role of education institutions in bourgeois society, the role of the student movement in a proletarian socialist revolution, how to do united front work as maoists, why students must be organized to participate in struggle, and the role of their theoretical journal, Red Horizon, in their organizing and educating of students.Follow RMS on instagram: @marxist_studentsWebsite: https://marxiststudents.wordpress.comSign the Petition: https://noimperialistrecruitment.wordpress.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
In a struggle against the right opportunism of AF3IRM's leadership--a US-based, women's organization that focuses particularly on the violence of the sex trade--numerous members split from the organization and now aim to start a new, revolutionary proletarian feminist organization. Gigi, Feroz, Esperanza and Jacqui join me to discuss the failures of AF3IRM's leadership and what a new proletarian feminist organization might look like.Read the summation and criticism here!Questions:What was the fundamental two line struggle that emerged within AF3IRM?What are some of the ways in which right opportunism is manifested within both AF3IRM and SEIU?How could a scientific, materialist and communist analysis of nationality and race have prevented AF3IRM's mishandling of questions that arose internally around white supremacy and membership?How do we combat economism while also linking up with the masses in the day-to-day struggles, whether it be in a women's organization or a labor organization?What does keeping politics in command mean to you?In light of the errors of leadership being bourgeois commandism and ultra-democracy, what does correct leadership look like?What's the purpose of internal and open line struggle?What does critiquing choice feminism beyond the sex trade look like?Why must all of our organizations center class struggle in our fight against all forms of exploitation and oppression?Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
Adrian and Arty from Dare to Struggle join me to discuss the organization's recent summation of their organizing against privatization in NYC.Be sure to read the summation, check out Dare to Struggle on instagram (@daretostrugglenyc), and link up with them in NYC here!Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is a reading and reflection on section I--"Self-Criticism"--of The Work of the April Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is a reading of "The Meaning of Imperialism" by Jose Maria Sison from Selected Readings from the Works of Jose Maria Sison.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is a reading of and reflection on a 10th Party Congress document (1921) of the Communist Party of Russia on party building that discusses the Bolshevik's experience pertaining to changing conditions that consequently determined the form of organization, methods of work and primacy of tasks.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is a reading and reflection on "The Mass Line" by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP).Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
Today we learn about the campaign to Defend Ka Louie!We speak with Ka Luis Jalandoni, Chief International Representative of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and Senior Advisor to the NDFP Negotiating Panel; Coni Ledesma, member of the NDFP Negotiating Panel and MAKIBAKA International Representative; Eevee, member of the Global Secretariat of the Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle (FFPS); and Dana, founder of Portland, Oregon's, FFPS chapter, People Organizing for Philippine Solidarity (POPS). We also discuss the Christians for National Liberation (CNL) and the New People's Army of the Philippines (NPA).LinksAn interview about the peace talks and root causes!FFFS Website: ffps.infoFFFS Email: secretariat_ffps@protonmail.comFFFS SocMed: @friends_ffpsSign the Petition to Defend Ka Louie!12-Point Program of the NDFPDM me on Instagram or email me if you want to sign up for the Saturday, Dec. 3rd, Organizing 101 Training!Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This is a brief assessment of US society following the American Revolution of 1776, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, as well as the character of each war.DM me on Instagram or email me if you want to sign up for the Sunday Nov. 20th or Saturday Dec. 3rd Organizing 101 Trainings/Workshops!Free resources and Support the how: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is a brief introduction to communist organizing!Outline:1. Basic Principles for Organizing2. Sectors, Territories and Contact Making3. An Organizing Conversation4. The Mass Campaign5. Workshop it! Support the show
This episode is a reflection on the role legal democratic organizations will play in our party building and united front work, the relationship between the legal democratic and open revolutionary mass organizations, and on right and "left" opportunism in legal democratic organizations.Free resources and Support the how: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
We do a little US history today with Too Black, writer, organizer and co-host of the Black Myths Pod. We discuss the history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, then Too Black tells us about the current organizing effort concerning the Pendleton 2 who participated in the Indiana Prisoner Rebellion of 1985.SEND 2 LETTERS TO FREE THE PENDLETON 2Here's the book we discussed on the Deacons for Defense and Justice.Check out Too Black's other articles From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism and Laundering Black Rage.Free resources and Support the how: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is an investigation into the question of people's war or protracted people's war in the capitalist and capitalist-imperialist countries. I argue against the universality of protracted people's war and for the strategy of people's war, or people's revolutionary civil war, for the industrial capitalist and imperialist metropoles."Problems of War and Strategy" - Mao, 1938“A Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement" - Mao, 1963"On the Question of People's War in Industrial Capitalist Countries" - Sison, 2019"Protracted People's War is not a Universal Strategy for Revolution" - from bannedthought.netAccess free resources and support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
At the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, the Executive Committee adopted this appendix to the Theses on Comintern Tactics in December, 1922. This episode is a reading of Theses on the United Front.Access free resources and support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is a reflection on Urban Perspective by CPI (Maoist).Access additional, free resources and support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is part three to a three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923. Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free.Part Three discusses the development of the relations between the party and the masses towards the end of and after the civil war, the ideological struggles internal to the party during this period, Party mistakes and rectification efforts led by Lenin, Lenin's "balance sheet," and the New Economic Policy.You can find the pdf here, but this is one of the only volumes you can still find in paperback.(This series was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)Access additional, free resources and support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is part two of our three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923. Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free. Part Two discusses the development and movement of the contradictions between the party and the peasantry and the party and the proletariat through through the civil war and imperialist intervention. Next, we look at transitions within the party and between the party and administrative state apparatus. Finally, we reflect upon the party's and proletariat's principle task during this particular period and some of the challenges they faced.You can find the pdf here, but this is one of the only volumes you can still find in paperback.(This series was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)Access additional, free resources and support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is part one to a three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923. Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free.Part One discusses the class contradictions of Russia on the eve of 1917, socialism as a period of transition and continued class struggle between capitalism and communism, and the role of the Maoist party, the proletariat, and the masses in revolutionary struggle.You can find the pdf here, but this is one of the only volumes you can still find in paperback.(This series was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)Access additional, free resources and support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is a reflection on "On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party" by Mao Tse-tung.Mentioned: Constructive Criticism: A Handbook, by Gracie Lyons.Access additional, free resources or support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.comSupport the show
This episode is an 11-point reflection generated from my reading of comrade Ajith's essay "The Vanguard in the 21st Century" found in Of Concepts and Methods: 'On Postisms' and Other Essays.Access additional, free resources or support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com
This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter seven of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "The Initiative, Creativity and Ideas of the Masses," by Scott Harrison.Access free bonus material or support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com
This episode is a reading of and reflection on Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? by Mao Zedong.Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com
This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter six of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "Have Faith in the Masses."Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.com
(This episode was previously released on the Faith and Capital podcast).In this episode, Chase reads through and comments on Section III of the Communist Party of the Philippines' (CPP) course Activist Study (ARAK): The Mass Line. This text is a great introduction for people who want study the mass line and develop mass work. It accessibly follows a question-answer format, eight questions in all. Find a paperback (or free pdf) here at Foreign Languages Press.If you find this text/episode interesting, check out our episode MASS WORK!Read Constructive Criticism: A HandbookSupport the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.com
This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter five of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "Who Are the Masses?"Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.com
This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter four of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "Misconceptions and Distortions of the Mass Line."Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music:
This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter three of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "A Quick Overview of the Mass Line."Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music:
This episode is a reading of and reflection on "Liberal Feminism," a chapter from Anuradha Ghandy's Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement.(this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music: Support the show
This episode is a reflection on Joseph Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism.(this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music:
This episode is a reflection on Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution?(this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music:
This episode is a reflection on Karl Marx's Wage Labour and Capital.(this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music: Support the show
This episode is a reflection on Friedrich Engles's Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. (this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music:
This episode is a reflection on "MASS WORK," a document for cadre members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) written during a rectification campaign in the 1990s.(this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)Find the text here: https://massline.info/Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music:
Welcome to Mass Struggle, a podcast on revolutionary theory for revolutionary practice. I'm a student and practitioner of revolutionary communism and am using this as a means of promoting the practical and theoretical power of marxism-leninism-maoism. The podcast will consist of personal commentaries, reflections and readings on revolutionary texts, and perhaps we'll do interviews in the future. I hope this content serves you, your organization and the people well.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music: