Archive for the 'Beijing Review' Category

Robert F. Williams on Martin Luther King.. 1967, Beijing Review
January 19, 2009

 

Robert F. Williams on Martin Luther King.. 1967, Beijing Review
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
Today is the Martin Luther King holiday. Much is made about Dr. King’s commitment to non-violence as a moral principle. While praising Dr. King’s stance, imperialists are bombing and starving the Third World into submission. Toward the end of his life, Dr. King became increasingly critical [...]

Beijing Review: In Memory of the Great Lenin, Down with Modern Revisionism! by “Renmin Ribao” Commentator (w/ Prairie Fire commentary)
April 22, 2008

Monkey Smashes Heaven reprints this article from Beijing Review no. 18, April 28, 1967 pp 21-22, commentary is by Prairie Fire
(source: Monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
There are some peripheral problems in this article. The police paradigm is found in it to an extent. Also, the metaphysics of inevitablism permeates the article. Assertions about inevitable victory for our cause are [...]

MIWS reprints Beijing Review article: The Essence of “Theory of Productive Forces” Is to Oppose Proletarian Revolution
December 22, 2007

[MSH is reprinting the following Beijing Review article with commentary by our excellent comrades at MIWS. MSH is mostly in agreement with MIWS's commentary. MIWS is doing a great service to the true Maoist movement worldwide by making these materials available. Slightly edited MIWS document follows. Only the format, not the content has been [...]

MIWS article with commentary by MSH: Lin Biao excerpt on the theory of the productive forces
November 13, 2007

[I have a high degree of unity with the recent article by the fraternal MIWS cell. Maoists are trying to break the fan club approach to leadership and history. The fan club approach to Mao has led to a situation where pre-scientific people avoid engaging with Lin Biao’s great article because of very dubious historical [...]

Sad Day: IRTR Cultural Revolution Archive dies
October 20, 2007

It’s a sad day.
MSH evolved out of the defunct IRTR. The IRTR Cultural Revolution Archive appears to have died; the account is suspended. This is regrettable. Comrades dedicated much time to scanning all the materials. Special thanks goes out to all the comrades who made the CRA a reality. Among other things the CRA [...]

1967: Robert Williams on the principal contradiction
September 6, 2007

(Reprinted by monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
Inspiration to the Afro-American Struggle
August 8 was the 4th anniversary of Chairman Mao’s statement supporting the Afro-Americans in their struggle against racial discrimination by U.S. imperialism. In a statement, Afro-American leader Robert F. Williams said that Chairman Mao is the first world leader to elevate the Afro-American struggle to the fold of world [...]

Maoists on Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony
August 3, 2007

The Maoist theory of aesthetics looks at the aesthetic dimension of life from the standpoint of power struggle. A further development and explanation of this Maoist theory can be found here.
The following are passages from a Maoist essay from 1974 on the subject:
“Has Absolute Music No Class Character?” by Chao Hua. Beijing Review no. [...]