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Alfred A. Knopf
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2019.
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"Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial time to understand Maoism. Although to Western eyes it seems that China has long abandoned the utopian turmoil of Maoism in favour of authoritarian capitalism, Mao and his ideas remain central to the People' Republic and the legitimacy of its communist government. As disagreements and conflicts between China and the West are likely to mount, the need to understand the political legacy...
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The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it-often referred to as "Maoism"-resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalistic movements of today. But, how did these politics first emerge? And, what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?
Maoism and the Chinese Revolution offers the novice reader...
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On the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism demonstrates Jose Maria Sison's comprehensive and profound knowledge of the epochal stages through which the theory and practice of the world proletarian revolution have developed. Such knowledge is well propagated among the cadres and members of the Communist Party of the Philippines.This book demonstrates Sison's excellence as a theoretician and teacher of dialectical and historical materialism as well...
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The Emergence of Global Maoism examines the spread of Mao Zedong's writings, ideology, and institutions when they traveled outside of China. Matthew Galway links Chinese Communist Party efforts to globalize Maoism to the dialectical engagement of exported Maoism by Cambodian Maoist intellectuals.
How do ideas manifest outside of their place of origin? Galway analyzes how universal ideological systems became localized, both in Mao's indigenization...
8) The Wind From the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s
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Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period...
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After the fall of the Soviet Union and its global empire, most observers assumed that the seventy-year argument that socialism was superior to capitalism was over. Socialism in its various forms-Communism, Maoism, National Socialism, and more-had left such a legacy of tyranny, war, mass murder, and human misery, that few could imagine a world where young people would once again embrace the discredited ideas of Marx and his heirs. And yet, here we...
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About the Book: The Sison Reader Series Book 6 covers the period of 2000 to 2021 in continuity with Book 5 which covers the period of 1969 to 1999. The two books manifest the outstanding role of the Communist Party of the Philippines as one of the proletarian revolutionary parties of the world successfully leading the people's democratic revolution through protracted people's war under the theoretical guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The CPP enjoys...
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The experiences and attitudes of a man who lived under Chinese Communism, rising to a position of importance before his decision to flee to the West, whose story describes much of life and society under Maoism. Robert Loh is the first educated Chinese to give a view from the inside of life in Red China. Son of a well-to-do family who was sent to study political science in the United States during the period when the authority of the Nationalist Government...
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Beyond the Little Red Book: China's revolutionary leader and his philosophy. In this collection of essays, China's Chairman Mao Tse-Tung explains the interpretation of Marxism-Leninism ideology that became known as Maoism. This philosophy fueled the Chinese Revolution and the massive social and economic changes Mao instituted as the nation's leader. From examining the way contradictions can cause great shifts within a society, to the necessity of...
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From the I Ching to The Little Red Book: Two thousand years of wisdom from some of China's greatest philosophers and political thinkers.
The Wisdom of Confucius: Whether considering his own life, human nature, or a society's responsibilities, Confucius's teachings emphasize morality, social relationships, justice, and sincerity. He pursued social and political reform, leaving a legacy of wisdom that remains vital today. Organized by topic and accompanied...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for socialist and communist systems, including the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx. These several philosophers are, recognized for creating socioeconomic analysis to view social conflict and class relations.
As ideologies of the nineteenth-century, they helped to develop, inspire, and revolutionize elements of the labor and socialist movements and became the...
15) On People's War
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About the Book:This book focuses on the people's war being waged by the New People's Army (NPA) led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It presents the reader with the NPA basic founding documents and my writings that reflect the NPA's growth in strength and advance from decade to decade since its founding on March 29, 1969.Waging people's war is not a purely military process. It involves the NPA taking ideological and political guidance...
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On the People's Democratic Revolution explains the basic concepts and the instruments for achieving the Philippine revolution. The program of the people's democratic revolution seeks to realize the basic demands of the people in the political, economic, social and cultural fields in opposition to the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system of big compradors, landlords and bureaucrat capitalists subservient to foreign monopoly capitalism.The Filipino...
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'A remarkable volume on the vicissitudes of the revolutionary left in post-independence Africa' Issa Shivji, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dar es Salaam
'Twenty-first-century radicals should find new inspiration for action in this untold history' Jean Copans, anthropologist and sociologist
'From the Tubu nomads of northern Chad to peasants, workers and students throughout the African continent, we see how these movements used old and...
18) Mao Zedong: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Chairman of the Communist Party of China, the Cultu
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Explore the Captivating Life of Mao ZedongMao Zedong is recognized alongside Chiang Kai-Shek and Sun Yat-Sen as one of the most influential figures of modern Chinese history. His political control of the nation waned during his later years, but he remained the Chairman of the Community Party of China since it was established in 1949 to the day he died (September 9, 1976). As the founding father of the People's Republic of China and the centerpiece...
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Jose Maria Sison: "Inasmuch as culture is a reflection of economics and politics, literature and art are the finest and most sensitive ideological forms for summing up social reality. We can create revolutionary literature and art only by carefully and meticulously keeping to the revolutionary stand, viewpoint and method of the class which leads the broad masses of the people in the life-and-death struggle between progress and reaction." About the...
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Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives-biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities-including those of statesmen, philosophers, poets, and rulers, to provide the focus for...
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