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Adventurism in the German Left

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In my last entry, I criticized the stubbornly persistent petty-bourgeois mindset of First World communists. Today I turn to a special, (relatively) fast-growing movement in the imperialist heartland, the so-called "Principally Maoism", mainly represented by the Norwegian "Tjen Folket" and its German and Canadian offshoots. Now, when they say "Principally Maoism", they are really only saying that they want to emphasize Maoism as the third stage of development of Marxism. They call their actual "Maoism" "Maoism Gonzalo-Thought" or "Maoism Principally Gonzalo-Thought" respectively, although there is still a big argument about this point (yes, very proletarian to argue about naming, surely the Bolsheviks also spent an eternity on this; for the sake of simpleness I will just refer to them as M-GT which is the abbreviation for "Maoism Gonzalo-Thought). In "Maoism Gonzalo-Thought there are two main aspects, broadly speaking...

On The Problem Of Theory And Praxis

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Just the other day I noticed that many Marxists who want to bring their ideas, or Marxism of course, into the masses are not quite clear about their own class position and the consciousness that has arisen from it. Isn't it strange that you start making other people class conscious when you don't know your class consciousness? Accordingly, I would like to present here the story about my studies of my own consciousness. Of course, my studies started with the following question "Why am I a communist anyway?"  The question was not easy for me to clarify, a long time I tried to think about it or to solve it in conversations with others for the time being unsuccessfully. I knew that part of it comes from my communist family history and my background, but as a materialist there must have been some material cause or some reason from my class base. Then, after a long period of study (of Dialectical Materialism), I gradually came to the causes of my orientation. First, I found...