Leading Light Communism Study Guide

THE BASICS – WHAT IS COMMUNISM? WHAT IS LEADING LIGHT?

What is Socialism? What is Communism?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/what-is-socialism-what-is-communism/

What is the Leading Light (and other frequently asked questions)?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/faq

Questions about Maoism and Leading Light Communism

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/questions-about-maoism-and-leading-light-communism/

Out of the shadows, into the sun

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/out-of-the-shadows-into-the-sun/

BEING A LEADING LIGHT

8 Instructions to lone comrades

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/8-instructions-to-lone-comrades/

Questions about Practice in the First World

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/questions-about-practice-in-the-first-world/

Twelve Principles of Leading Light Communist leadership

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/twelve-principles-of-leading-light-communist-leadership/

It’s still important to oppose book worship

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/its-still-important-to-oppose-book-worship/

Points on First World incarceration, obligation, and leadership

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/points-on-first-world-incarceration-obligation-and-leadership/

Solving the Gordion Knot, instruction on method and decisiveness

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/solving-the-gordian-knot

Tasks, deviations, corrections, an interview with Leading Light Commander Prairie Fire

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/must-read-tasks-deviations-corrections-an-interview-with-leading-light-commander-prairie-fire/

ECOLOGY

Our General Line on the Environment

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/our-general-line-on-the-environment/

Water and imperialism

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/water-and-imperialism/

Global Warming threatens to push 100 million people into extreme poverty

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/global-warming-threatens-to-push-100-million-people-into-extreme-poverty/

Reparations demanded for eco-destruction of Africa

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/reparations-demanded-for-eco-destruction-of-africa/

GENDER

Soviet Women, Traditionalism, Revisionism

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/soviet-women-traditionalism-revisionism/

On patriarchy, coconuts, and feminism

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/on-patriarchy-coconuts-and-feminism/

On gender, a speech

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/on-gender/

ON REVISIONISM

What is revisionism?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/what-is-revisionism/

Who and What are Trotsky-cons?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/who-and-what-are-trotsky-cons/

On counter-revolution: Just pointing to revisionists is not enough

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/on-counter-revolution-just-pointing-to-revisionists-is-not-enough/

Revisionism of the Cowardly Lion in the First World

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/revisionism-of-the-cowardly-lion-in-the-first-world/

Do Nothingism is counter-revolutionary

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/do-nothingism-is-counter-revolutionary/

RESISTANCE, PEOPLE’S WAR, REVOLUTION

Notes on Protest and People’s War

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/notes-on-protest-and-peoples-war/

Revolution in the Third World; Resistance in the First World

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/revolution-in-the-third-world-resistance-in-the-first-world/

Is people’s war universal?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/is-peoples-war-universal/

Excerpt from Malcolm Caldwell on wealth and people’s war

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/excerpt-from-malcolm-caldwell-on-wealth-and-peoples-war/

IMPERIALISM

Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Parts 1-3)

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-13/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-23/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-33/

Book review of Teresa Hayter’s The Creation of World Poverty (Parts 1 & 2)

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/book-review-part-1-of-2-of-teresa-hayters-the-creation-of-world-poverty/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/book-review-part-2-of-2-of-teresa-hayters-the-creation-of-world-poverty/

First Worldism in the imperialist countries is Social Fascism

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/first-worldism-in-the-imperialist-countries-is-social-fascism/

On the recent criticisms of northern Korea’s atomic tests https://leadinglightcommunist.org/on-the-recent-criticisms-of-northern-koreas-atomic-tests/

Comments on the evolution of empire

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/comments-on-the-evolution-of-empire/

REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY

General History

Summations, questions, answers: a short lesson on revolutionary history

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/summations-questions-answers/

Hitler’s Beneficiaries (2005) by Gotz Aly reviewed by Prairie Fire

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/hitlers-beneficiaries-2005-by-gotz-aly/

Book review: The Cleanest Race (2010) by B. R. Myers

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/book-review-the-cleanest-race-2010-by-b-r-myers/

Notes on today’s Maoists who uphold Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/notes-on-todays-maoists-who-uphold-pol-pot-and-the-khmer-rouge/

Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union

The Anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/the-anniversary-of-the-bolshevik-revolution/

Molotov, MIM, Dogma, and Stalin’s support for Israel

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/molotov-mim-dogma-and-stalins-support-for-israel/

Documents show Stalin went to great lengths to stop Hitler

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/documents-show-stalin-went-to-great-lengths-to-stop-hitler/

Thoughts on Stalin

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/thoughts-on-stalin/

Chinese Revolution

Beginning talking points on the Cultural Revolution era

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/beginning-talking-points-on-the-cultural-revolution-era/

Early GPCR, the rise of New Power and new ideology (Parts 1-8)

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-ideology-part-1

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-2/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-3/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-4/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-5/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-6/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-7/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/early-gpcr-the-rise-of-new-power-and-new-ideology-part-8/

Was Lin Biao guilty of plotting a coup?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/was-lin-biao-guilty-of-plotting-a-coup/

Lin Biao as barometer

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/lin-biao-as-barometer/

Some notes on lines within the Chinese Communist Party in the Maoist period

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/lines-within-the-chinese-communist-party-in-the-maoist-period/

A tale of two communes

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/a-tale-of-two-communes/

On healthcare and barefoot doctors

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/on-healthcare-and-barefoot-doctors/

A Leading Light Communist Review of Mobo Gao, The Battle for China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/review-of-mobo-gao-the-battle-for-chinas-past/

Dissent, Science, and a healthy world (Parts 1 & 2)

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/dissent-science-and-a-healthy-world/

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/dissent-science-and-a-healthy-world2/

NEW POWER OF THE PROLETARIAT

New world, new challenges, new science

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/new-world-new-challenges-new-science/

Which side are you on?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/which-side-are-you-on

Old Power, New Power, Reform versus Revolution

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/old-power-new-power-reform-versus-revolution/

POLITICAL ECONOMY

Equality and Global Alignments

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/equality-and-global-alignments/

A letter from a reader: Do all Americans live like Bill Gates?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/a-letter-from-a-reader-do-all-americans-live-like-bill-gates/

Oxfam’s lie that richest 85 people as “wealthy” as the bottom 3.5 billion

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/oxfams-lie-that-top-85-are-as-wealthy-as-the-bottom-3-5-billion/

Dear Leading Light Communist.. are First World “workers” more productive?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/are-first-world-workers-more-productive/

Global Inequality Versus Socialist Equality

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/global-inequality-versus-socialist-equality/

Review of André Gunder Frank’s Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/lumpenbourgeoisie-lumpendevelopment/

What about wealth? What about debt in the First World?

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/what-about-wealth-what-about-debt-in-the-first-world/

The Slum within the Global Countryside: Reflections inspired by Mike Davis’ Planet of Slums

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/the-slum-within-the-global-countryside/

Book review of Malcolm Caldwell’s The Wealth of Some Nations

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/book-review-of-malcolm-caldwells-the-wealth-of-some-nations/

SCIENCE, EPISTEMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY

Third Worldism,” epistemology, art, socialism

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/third-worldism-epistemology-art-socialism/

Plato’s cave, First and Third World, science and epistemology

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/platos-cave/

Comments on First Worldism and Popper’s challenge

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/first-worldism-and-poppers-challenge/

Sailing the seas depends on a helmsman

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/sailing-the-seas-depends-on-a-helmsman/

On the inverse cripples

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/on-the-inverse-cripples/

Questions on Marx

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/questions-on-marx/

Revolutionary Science in command, not identity politics

https://leadinglightcommunist.org/revolutionary-science-in-command-not-identity-politics/