The Tampa Maoist Collective is embarking on an educational campaign to promote Maoism in the United States as the only genuinely revolutionary tendency. While the key link in this drive is our local educational studies and development of mass work, we recognize that these studies are not accessible to everyone in our area and that without a national Maoist Communist Party, those new to Maoism in different cities are often left in the dark on educational resources. We hope that our maintenance of this page, and the launching of our local revolutionary library program, helps to combat these problems.

First, a word of explanation. While we hope this proves a useful resource for communists, we must keep in mind the words of Mao – oppose book worship. This is not a required reading list for Maoists. This list provides introductory texts on key topics we believe Maoists should study- focusing in different ways on the component parts of Maoism (philosophy, political economy, scientific socialism). This list is not meant to be comprehensive or definitive, though we hope to keep it expanding and contribute to the list ourselves with new texts. We do not recommend that communists scroll through this list and read every work, it should be used only as a guide and reference point to help in studying – and ultimately making – revolution. Studying theory is only a useful activity when done in relation to revolutionary work. Our central task is to build communist organization, study is a subordinate aspect of this task.

This list originates from our internal cadre educational guidelines, and its origin as a living guide to training cadre hopefully lives on in assisting training new cadre within our own ranks and across the US.

The ABC’s of Revolutionary Communism

In studying, we should move from the general to the particular. These texts provide general guidelines to Maoism, covering in broad strokes its basic history and positions.

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course

The Principles of Communism

3 Sources and 3 Component Parts of Marxism

The Communist Manifesto

From Marx to Mao: A Study in Revolutionary Dialectics

The Science of Revolution

Why Maoism?

What Maoism Has to Offer the World

Misconceptions About Maoism

Understanding History

Communists study history scientifically, drawing lessons from the past in order to change the future through revolution. We feel it is important for communists in the US to understand the basic history of this country as a settler-colonial, white supremacist project founded on genocide. It is also important that we understand class struggle as the driving force of history – especially under socialism.

The Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism

On the Concept of History

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

The State and Revolution

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat

A People’s History of the United States

An Indigenous People’s History of the United States

Eurocentrism

Killing Hope

The Historical Failure of Anarchism

The Solution: To Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

On Exercising All Around Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie

The Class Struggle in China

Evaluating the Cultural Revolution in China

History Develops in Spirals

The New Communist Movement and Maoism in the US

On the Roots of Revisionism A Political Analysis of the International Communist Movement and the CPUSA 1919-1945

A Critical History of the New Communist Movement, 1969-1979

Maoism in the United States

A Study of the Relationship Between the Black Panther Party and Maoism

Heavy Radicals

Against Avakianism

Nine Letters to Our Comrades

Self Criticism and Summation of Patriarchy -New Communist Party (Organizing Committee)

Maoist Communist Group Founding Statement

The Externalization of the Anti-Revisionist Struggle is the Negation of Proletarian Politics

Statement of Disassociation from the New Communist Party (Liaison Committee) – Red Guards LA

Condemned to Win – Position Paper from Red Guards Austin

Founding Statement of the Tampa Maoist Collective

Political Economy

The labor theory of value, the exploitative nature of capitalism, the parasitism of imperialism, and the principles of socialist construction are extremely important concepts to a Maoist understanding of revolution.

Wage Labor & Capital

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

A Critique of Soviet Economics

The Capitalist Character of the Relations of Production in the Soviet Union

Fundamentals of Political Economy, excerpt

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

On the Primacy of the Relations of Production

How the Soviet Revisionists Carry out All Around Restoration of Capitalism in the USSR

Cultural Revolution and Industrial Organization in China

The Laws of Class Struggle in the Socialist Period

Is China an Imperialist Country?

Divided World, Divided Class

The General Characteristics of Imperialism

The Worker Elite

Philosophy

The philosophy of communism is the philosophy of struggle. The Maoist theory of knowledge and contradiction provides key insights into our political work.

On Practice

On Contradiction

On the Materialist Dialectic

The Human Essence

Theory of the Subject

The Communist Necessity

Continuity and Rupture

Hegemony and Class Revolution

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Is Not Just Marxism-Leninism Plus Mao

Proletarian Feminism

Without smashing patriarchy, it is impossible for the revolutionary movement to take even a single step forward. The abolition of gender and sexual oppression must be fought for step by step as part of the fight for communism, and this can only occur by grasping and applying Proletarian Feminism.

Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement

Caliban and the Witch

On Standards of Feminist Conduct

What is Proletarian Feminism

Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale

Radical or Proletarian Feminism

Proletarian Feminist Manifesto

Women can Taste Emancipation from all Exploitative Shackles Only in a Classless Communist Society

Liberated Women II

Out of the Red Closet

Revolutionary Organizing

The Mass Line and the construction of the Maoist Communist Party are two absolutely connected organizational principles we must understand to make revolution. At this time our general call remains the guide forward for communists in the US – Build the Collectives, Build the Party.

Five Golden Rays

Mass Work

The Mass Line Is the Key to Lead the Masses In Making Revolution

Unity-Struggle-Transformation: On Revolutionary Organization, Leadership and Cadre Development

The Maoist Party

The Question of Building a New Type of Party

It is Right to Rebel!

Notes on the Mass Line

Urban Perspective of the CPI (Maoist)

How to Master Secret Work

General Political Line of the PCP

On the Vanguard Party, Once Again

A Handbook to Criticism/Self-Criticism

Anti-fascism

In the context of rising fascism, anti-fascist work is a necessity for all communists. We are working to make this a major trench of struggle in our area, and believe all communists must study fascism and the fight against it to connect the anti-fascist struggle with the construction of the Maoist Communist Party. Build the antifa of a new type.

The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism

A Brief History and Assessment of Antifa Organizing

Emergent Fascism and the Fragmented Left

It Will Not Fall Unless You Hit It

Throwing Light

Confronting Fascism

Fascism (Clara Zetkin)

National Liberation

Imperialism leads to national oppression, a relationship of pillage by which one nation oppresses another. The US is the chief enemy of the world’s people abroad, but also developed through subjugating internal colonies in the First Nations, New Afrika, Aztlán, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. The struggle for the national liberation of these people’s cannot be separated from the struggle for communism and a Maoist Communist Party.

The Wretched of the Earth

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination

Marxism and the National Question

The Trail Of Broken Treaties

The Struggle for National Liberation of Indigenous Peoples is Central to the Revolution

The Struggle for Chicano Liberation

Review: Chican@ Power and the Struggle For Aztlán

National Liberation of Puerto Rico and the Responsibilities of the U.S. Proletariat

Young Lords Party 13-Point Program and Platform

The New Jim Crow

Black Like Mao

Nationalism, Self-Determination and Socialist Revolution

On the Term New Afrikan

It’s Raining Pigs, Rats and Moles! Vermin Culture, ‘Good Cop’ Brainwash, and National Oppression in Amerika

On the Questions of Race and Racism: Revolutionary National Liberation and Building the United Front Against Imperialism

Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism

“Ooh, momma, those black cats are out back again”: A terse response to “get up for the down stroke” by Chairman Shaka Zulu

The Youth Movement

Don’t March For Our Lives, Fight For Them: Communism’s Promise To The Youth

Limits of the Current Student Movement

The Revolutionary Student Front-Austin

Protracted People’s War: Today’s Revolutions

Protracted People’s War (PPW) is a universally applicable general strategy for revolution. It is important that those of us in imperialist centers understand how we might apply PPW here, but most importantly we must learn by doing.

Protracted War

Protracted People’s War is the Only Way to Make Revolution

More on the Question of Waging Revolutionary War in the Imperialist Countries

On Protracted People’s War as a Universal Development of Revolutionary Theory

Gramsci and the Protracted Revolutionary People’s War

War of Position at the Centers of Capitalism

Peru

The Communist Party of Peru (PCP) launched its Protracted People’s War (PPW) in 1982, expanding to nearly conquer state power before the capture of Chairman Gonzalo- founder and leader of the PCP- in 1992. The PCP were the initiators of the first wave of Maoism, and remain an inspiration to communists across the world.

Collected Works of the Communist Party of Peru, Volume I

Military Line – Communist Party of Peru

Five Years of People’s War

When the Andes Roar

Communism Marches Forward in Peru

Interview with Chairman Gonzalo

A Sober Look at the Situation of the Peru Revolution and its Needs

Nepal

PPW in Nepal was launched by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in 1996, largely picking up on the momentum lost by the PCP internationally. The PPW nearly conquered state power, when leadership of the party embraced revisionism and entered parliamentary politics after forcing the monarchy to absolve in 2008. Today, genuine Maoists are seeking to restart the People’s War.

The People’s War is Sinking Roots

People’s War in Nepal

Dispatches from the People’s War in Nepal

People’s War and Women’s Liberation in Nepal

Interview with Communist Party of India (Maoist) on Developments in Nepal

India

The PPW in India is led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) which was formed in 2004, with a long history of class struggle stretching back 50 years as explained in the document “Long Live 50 Years of Naxalbari.” Despite massive state forces attempting to annihilate the Maoists in “Operation Green Hunt,” the CPI (Maoist) continues to defy the state and controls massive liberated zones in India’s “Red Corridor.” The CPI (Maoist) is the most theoretically and practically advanced revolutionary group in the world today.

Strategy and Tactics of the Indian Revolution

Maoists in India: A Rejoinder

Maoists in India: Writings and Interviews, Azad

Parliamentary Democracy is an Illusion for the Masses! Revolution is their Reality!

Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion

Build on the 10th Anniversary of the CPI (Maoist)

Long Live 50 Years of Naxalbari

Philippines

The Communist Party of the Philippines has been leading a PPW for nearly 50 years. Despite fascist repression, the CPP has reached 70,000 members and continues to grow in power and create red bases across the island country.

Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism

With the New People’s Army in the Philippines

Specific Characteristics of Our People’s War

Guide to Imperialist Intervention and Aggression and Counter-Revolutionary War

On Martial Law

Communiqué of the Second Congress of the Communist Party of the Philippines

Turkey

The Maoist Movement in Turkey was founded by the Turkish Communist Party/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML) in 1972, launching PPW which continues as both urban and rural guerrilla warfare today led by both the TKP/ML and the Maoist Communist Party founded in 2002.

Low Intensity War is the Strategy of the Counter-Guerilla, and People’s War is the Strategy of the Proletariat

Maoism Versus Opportunism in Turkey

Brief History and Summary of the TKP/ML

One cannot be a Communist without defending Maoism

2013 – Declaration on the 3rd Congress

Manipur

Manipur is a state in Northeast India, where the Maoist Communist Party of Manipur was founded in 2011 which launched armed struggle in 2012. The MCPM works alongside the CPI (Maoist) to develop guerrilla warfare against the Indian state.

Announcing the Formation of the New People’s Militia of the Maoist Communist Party of Manipur

5th Anniversary Revolutionary Message of Maoist Communist Party Manipur

On the International Unity of Communists

DECLARATION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT

Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

On the Present Situation of the RIM and the Challenge of Regrouping Maoist Parties at the International Level

The Communists’ Unity on a World Wide Scale Is Achieved Through Ideological Struggle

On the International Unity of Maoists

A Decisive Struggle Needs to be Waged for a New International Communist (MLM) Organization

Problems and Tasks of International Communist Movement in 21st Century

Maoist Road #1

Towards the Creation of a New RIM

This page is a work in progress and will be updated as our knowledge and practice expands.