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Full Archive on Jose Maria Sison's Works:
*https://josemariasison.com/repository/*
For those who are unaware, the JMS Legacy Foundation was founded two years ago in 2024 after Ka Joma's passing, in a continued effort to preserve and consolidate the lifelong works of Jose Maria Sison, the archival of his personal and organizational life, and most importantly his practical and theoretical contributions to the science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the international proletarian revolution.
Here they have collected, scanned, and archived Ka Joma's various works, including several of his 'selected works' series such as the Sison Reader Series. They have also preserved rare documents such as reports or guides that are unpublished anywhere else. They also host translations of Ka Joma's works to other languages other than English, such as French or Spanish. Available on the repository
Based in Utrecht, the city of Ka Joma and Julie's exile and his place of rest, the JMS Legacy Foundation also has a museum near the city central (which I highly recommend visiting if you ever get the chance to!) They work closely with the National Democratic movement in the Philippines and abroad, and have done great work in preserving the lessons of the revolutionary movement in the Philippines through Joma's works.
Their website is a great resource so far and IRL they have done good work in organizing study events, discussions, or even book talks about Joma.
Really cool foundation and they've done good work, especially in the publicly available free-to -access repository. Hope this would be a good resource to y'all! :) Cheers..
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Reconstitution of Communist Youth League. Reconstitution of Communist Parties is the principal task! Unite under Maoism!
https://redherald.org/2026/04/12/france-the-congress-for-the-reconstitution-of-the-communist-youth/
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The Ten Point Program of The Communist Youth Organisation
https://communistyouthorganisation.org/2026/02/25/hello-world/
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Chinese Maoists released a list of criticisms of existing Communist parties
https://bu2021.xyz/t/topic/48521
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On the recent rule changes (1, 4, 5, 9, and 10)
Recently (and by that I mean nearly two months ago), we made some changes to the sidebar that you've probably noticed by now.
Firstly, we've made it explicit that communism is Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. This has already been the sub's position, but we decided to make it clearer that we don't allow revisionism and that there are not different brands of Marxism that people can pick and choose between.
Secondly, we've banned self-promotion, defined as linking or advertising your own paid products or services. This includes "charity," "donations," and other ways of trying to conceal the existence of commodity-exchange that happens on Patreon, Substack, etc. Those who can't make the cut as academics or content-creators often try to hawk their wares with "Marxist" branding slapped on top in hopes of finding customers in a market with fewer competitors. Since we wish to make knowledge of MLM freely accessible to people and wish to have quality discussion, prohibiting self-promotion is an easy way to advance both those goals. If you insist that your work is actually worth the money, it'll surely be recommended by someone else sooner or later (and for the record, we enforce quality standards regardless).
Finally, we've banned DM requests or offers. On a sub that's known for its strict moderation, it's especially important to prevent people from trying to evade bans by isolating and harassing users in their private messages. This has also already been a de facto rule, but we wanted to advise new users not to respond to DMs and to report people who try to send them.
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Bi-Weekly Discussion Thread - (March 22)
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marxist literature on cults
i’m looking for marxist perspectives on cults. i’m trying to make sense of my own individual experience and its relation to broader systems.
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Thailand’s Capitalism: The Impact of the Economic Crisis
https://kevinhewison.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/hewison_uneac_no_1.pdf
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Parti Şehitleri ve Devrimci İrade
I. Tarihsel Miras ve Ölümsüzleşenler
TKP-ML’nin elli yılı aşan mücadelesinde toprağa düşen her bir nefer, sadece birer isim değil; Devrim Emekçileri için Özgürlük yürüyüşümüzün sönmeyen meşaleleridir. Vartinik’ten Dersim dağlarına, zindan direnişlerinden metropol barikatlarına kadar dökülen her damla kan, bugün DEK-C’nin üzerinde yükseldiği ideolojik temelin harcıdır.
II. Şehitlerin Siyasi Vasiyeti
Bizim için "Parti Şehitleri", nostaljik bir anmanın ötesinde, güncel bir savaş çağrısıdır. Onların vasiyeti:
Tavizsiz İdeolojik Hat: Revizyonizme, tasfiyeciliğe ve sistem içi reformizme karşı Marksizm-Leninizm-Maoizm (MLM) siperini terk etmemek.
Emekçinin Özgürlüğü: Kurtuluşun ancak ve ancak devrim emekçilerinin kendi kollarının gücüyle, örgütlü bir öncüyle mümkün olduğu gerçeğini haykırmak.
Feda Ruhu: Kaypakkaya’nın "ser verip sır vermeyen" geleneğini, bugünün siyasi ikliminde tavizsiz bir militanlıkla sürdürmek.
III. DEK-C’nin Güncel Görevi
DEÖG saflarında olgunlaşan bilinçle ilan ediyoruz ki; şehitlerimizin bıraktığı boşluk, safları sıklaştırarak ve mücadeleyi her alana yayarak doldurulacaktır. 2026 Türkiyesi'nde baskı ne kadar artarsa artsın, DEK-C bu tarihsel kökten aldığı güçle;
Halk Savaşı stratejisinin tarihsel haklılığını güncel araçlarla savunmaya,
İşçi sınıfı ve köylülüğün birleşik devrimci cephesini örmeye,
Faşizmin kalelerine karşı devrimci şiddetin meşruiyetini taşımaya devam edecektir.
IV. Çağrı
Tüm devrim emekçilerini, partinin kızıl bayrağını yere düşürmeyenlerin izinde yürümeye çağırıyoruz. Onlar ölmedi; kavgamızda, sloganlarımızda ve zafere olan sarsılmaz inancımızda yaşıyorlar!
Şehitler Yaşıyor, Kavga Sürüyor!
Yaşasın MLM’nin Işıklı Yolu!
Devrim Emekçilerine Özgürlük, DEK-C ile Zafere!
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Anxiety and taking political action
Hello everyone, I need some advice and maybe a little hope.
I have social anxiety, and this has kind of always hindered me from participating or taking action in the ways that I would have liked. I was politically involved in the youth of the communist party of my country for several years, but I wasn't a good member because it was really hard for me to attend meetings if the person I was closest to wasn't going, or if I had to do some work for the party that involved social interaction, I was always a mess and did a poor job. Or when people asked me about my opinion on something in a meeting, I'd freeze. In the end, I left the party because I felt awful due to not being able to be a good member. I felt like a burden. However, since I left it five years ago, I've been feeling horrible as well, because what kind of communist am I if I'm not taking action? What am I without praxis? At the same time, I can't find the courage to take part in community spaces that lead the values that I defend. I guess what I'm trying to say is are there any communists out there who have been in my position? Or maybe if any of you could give me some advice to not feel useless in this part of my life that holds such importance.
I'm not going to lie, what I'd really like is to be able to participate in political life actively and defend the cause, and go to demonstrations and fight, but I can't. So I'm stuck in my house reading, just being angry at the world and at myself. Besides, the current situation of world politics, alongside the rise of fascism and imperialism, makes me feel like I should be doing something, and what I should be doing I find myself incapable of doing so.
Thank you so much for listening to me, any piece of advice is welcome!
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Hindistanlı Yoldaşlarımıza;
Güney Asya’nın bozkırlarında tutuşan "Kızıl Koridor" ateşi, elli yıla yakındır dünya halklarına umut, emperyalizme ve gerici Brahmanist Hindistan devletine korku salmaktadır. Ancak son günlerde gelen haberler, Hindistan Komünist Partisi (Maoist) bünyesinde en üst düzey sorumluluklar üstlenmiş bazı isimlerin (Tippiri Tirupati ve yandaşları), halkın kanıyla sulanan mevzileri terk ederek faşizmin kollarına sığındığını göstermektedir.
1. Teslimiyet İhanettir, Tasfiyecilik Suçtur!
Halkın kurtuluş davasına ömürlerini adadığını iddia edenlerin, mücadelenin en zorlu anlarında "silah bırakma" ve "teslimiyet" masallarıyla düşmanla el sıkışması, Marksizm-Leninizm-Maoizm (MLM) bilimine ve devrim şehitlerinin aziz hatırasına açık bir ihanettir. Kişisel yorgunluklarını ve ideolojik kırılmalarını "barış" kılıfıyla pazarlayanlar, tarihin çöp sepetinde yerlerini alacaklardır. DEK-C olarak bu tasfiyeci tutumu en sert biçimde KINIYORUZ.
2. CPI (Maoist) Yalnız Değildir!
Birkaç ismin saf değiştirmesi, milyonlarca topraksız köylünün, ezilen kabile halklarının (Adivasiler) ve Dalitlerin öfkesini dindiremeyecektir. Devrimci hareketler liderleriyle değil, kitlelerle kaimdir. Hindistan Komünist Partisi (Maoist) önderliğinde yürütülen Halk Savaşı, sadece Hindistan’ın değil, Türkiye’den Filipinler’e kadar tüm coğrafyaların ortak kavgasıdır.
3. DEK-C’den Enternasyonalist Selam!
DEÖG geleneğinden gelen devrim emekçileri ve DEK-C militanları olarak ilan ediyoruz:
Hindistan devletinin 2026 hedefli imha operasyonlarına karşı, Hindistanlı yoldaşlarımızın SİYASİ VE MORAL SİPERİYİZ.
Dönenlere, yılanlara ve teslimiyet bayrağı çekenlere inat; "HALK SAVAŞI ZAFERE KADAR SÜRECEK" sloganını sınırların ötesinden haykırıyoruz.
Tasfiyeciliğe karşı ideolojik uyanışı, revizyonizme karşı MLM’nin kızıl hattını savunmaya devam edeceğiz.
4. Sonuç:
Düşman sevinmesin, hainler övünmesin! Devrim nehirleri bazen yatağını değiştirse de mutlaka denize ulaşacaktır. Hindistan’da dökülen her damla ter, DEK-C’nin Türkiye topraklarındaki mücadelesine güç katmaktadır.
Kahrolsun Faşizm ve Teslimiyetçilik!
Yaşasın Hindistan Halk Savaşı ve CPI (Maoist)!
Yaşasın Enternasyonal Dayanışma!
Devrim Emekçilerinin Kurtuluş Cephesi (DEK-C)
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Statement by Former Members and Former Members of Affiliate Organizations of the MCU
https://www.bannedthought.net/USA/MCU/criticism/MCUCRIT.pdf
"This is a warning for comrades who may come into contact with the MCU and its leader Ryan Costello aka Thomas O'Connell. A significant aim of this organization is to fulfill Ryan’s personal and
sexual power plays."
The document goes into detail about how "Thomas O'Connell" has basically been running the MCU like a sex cult, and it provides testimonial evidence for these claims. The document was released last month and I haven't seen any responses from MCU or "Thomas O'Connell".
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Chinese capital and economic transformation in Africa: what has changed after Covid-19?
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.62191/ROAPE-2025-0013
https://redd.it/1rexfol
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Bi-Weekly Discussion Thread - (February 22)
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question about this subreddits formatting
Hello, as an advocate of MLM communism, respectfully, why does the description of this subreddit say “For the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism” when the name of this subreddit is “communism” and not “Marxist-Leninist-Maoism”? Yet Marx was never alive in the time of Lenin’s political prominence, nor Mao's, and yet he created the world’s first communist party and created the ideology and the framework of those leftist ideas and thoughts. However, when you say that this is “for the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,” and yet you use the name “communism” for the subreddit, which implies that the MLM strand of communism is the only “true” brand of communism. And so I was wondering if that was a direct statement on what your specific community of MLM members believes is true about leftists who call themselves communists.
thank you for your responses.
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need a source
can someone send me the source for the survey the USAMGIK did in south korea in 1946 where 70% of the ppl asked assigned themselves as socialists?
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Just how independent is ideology from material conditions?
From what I understand, Marxism believes that
\- The inner structure of an ideology is dependent on relations of an economic system
\- The development of ideological systems/phenomena is often analogous to the development of the productive forces
\- These ideological systems also have their own inner logic which they develop by with a seeming degree of independence from the conditions of life
For example, as I understand it, commodity fetishism is a product of the inner structure of commodity trade itself, where equivalent value forms appear to receive their respective values from their objecthood as opposed to the undifferentiated labor employed in their creation. But commodity fetishism, as a superstructural phenomenon, has been represented in political and artistic forms which develop with a degree of independence from how trade relations themselves currently are. My question is, how can these mediums develop independently in the first place, and what are the limits to their independence from material conditions?
And if I understand nothing I’m talking about and this sounds like long-winded nonsense… please correct me wherever possible!
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Does a labour aristoracy exist within the nations of global south?
The general understanding of labour aristocracy is that unproductive workers of the imperial core are paid much higher wages extracted from the superexploited proletariat of Global South.
But can a similar layer also exist within countries of the Global South since a segment of the working class concentrated in the formal/public sector secures relatively higher wages, employment stability, pension & social security benefits as opposed to the majority contractual workers?
If such a stratum indeed exists, who actually constitutes it – is it only the unproductive (non-industrial & industrial) public sector workers or both the unproductive as well as productive public sector workers and what are their tasks in advancing communism?
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Bi-Weekly Discussion Thread - (April 05)
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T. Derbent - Lenin and the War Pt. 1
https://materialjournal.net/lenin-and-the-war-part-1/
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Separation of Reproduction and Sexuality under Socialism
I'm probably about to articulate this very poorly but I've been reading the discussions on this subreddit over the abolition of the family and collective childcare, namely u/humblegold's contributions to explaining family abolition from this post and u/Clean-Difference1771's contributions on this thread but one thing that confuses me (and might be too much speculation) is how socialist society evolves from the family as the unit of reproduction to something else in the future. We understand that collective childcare will be the next step in raising children outside patriarchal norms but what about the relationships between individuals that facilitate childbirth? What about childbirth in general? The contradiction between those who can give birth and those who can't? I'm mainly thinking of how Mao talks about how there are still contradictions within socialist society and the contradiction between sex as a means of reproduction on a biological level and sexuality as experienced through the mental life of the individual and their relationship to desire. How would this be resolved in the future or is it impossible to say at this point in time? Are there any authors that talk about this even at an abstract level?
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How an immigration raid reshaped meatpacking — and America
https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/on-the-kill-floor-how-migrants-are-exploited-for-profit/
https://redd.it/1rvq99u
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References on the Anti-Party Group
I’m trying to study the history of revisionism in Soviet Union and one important chapter of it is the Molotov-Malenkov-Kaganovich-Shepilov last-ditch attempt to depose Khrushchev, but I don’t know what sources on it are reliable. Asking for some recommendations.
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Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez calls for "the implementation of the most urgent and necessary transformations to the economic and social model"
https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2026-03-02/the-council-of-ministers-met
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Bi-Weekly Discussion Thread - (March 08)
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United $tate$ kills Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
https://noticias.uol.com.br/internacional/ultimas-noticias/2026/02/28/morte-de-khamenei-elevaria-tensao-sem-derrubar-regime-dizem-analistas.htm
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With the US rolling back various protections (EPA, FDA, etc.), is it better for comrades to continue organizing internally or leave and join comrades in the imperial periphery?
Of course, it's impossible to escape capitalism and America's influence but I'm asking because the state is essentially making simply existing in the country a health hazard.
Examples:
Recent increased production mandate for glyphosate, which is linked to cancer
General EPA deregulation + allowing coal plants to release more heavy metals as a byproduct, e.g. mercury, which is linked to brain damage
FDA loosening labeling requirements and food safety rules
General antivaxery
On top of that we have the UN Declaring Water Bankruptcy while Data Centers, which love gobbling up the local water, are popping up left and right. I'm not saying it's completely hopeless and that everyone should flee ASAP but where do you draw the line?
Is it best to stay regardless of health outcomes or do you call it at a certain point? How should this question be applied to the disabled, children, etc.?
Also, just to be clear, I'm not saying moving to the periphery is easy or that everything will be hunky-dory once you do.
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New Afrikan revolutionary Robert F. Williams was born on this day in 1925. For an intro to his work in the Monroe & Revolutionary Action Movement, check out Ch. 8 of FNFI.
https://readsettlers.org/fnfi/ch8.html
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Any communities or resources for socialist and/or communist moms?
I'm a Marxist and new mom and trying to figure out how to stay engaged in the work, but I can't find anyone explaining how they did it or how their organization supported it. I'm a union activist and my engagement took a hit as soon as I got to the third trimester of pregnancy. Thanks
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Language pride
I'm a leftist(still learning), and I’ve been thinking about something that came up with another left leaning friend.
So, hes an Indian Tamil and alot of indian tamils identify as tamil primarily and Indian secondarily, so I asked him would you ever identify as tamil and he said something along the lines of "Language pride, race pride, caste pride are all extremely cheap forms of prides, largely used to impose supremacy and division".
So I said, you can't compare language pride to something like race or caste pride since they usually exist because of oppression while historically, languages have often functioned as tools of unity, mass communication, and resistance, especially in anti-colonial and anti-elite contexts.(Tamil being an example). So, it would be ignorant to not take pride over your languages history.
He then talked about how language pride is normally seen as a form of superiority(at least in India)and is just another way to impose superiority.
So I'm curious to know what guys here think about it.
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