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
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
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)
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/