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ABOUT RAYMOND LOTTA | RESOURCES | SOCIALIST EXPERIENCE | COMMUNISM'S FUTURE SOCIALIST EXPERIENCE Dictatorship and Democracy, and the Socialist Transition to Communism, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA Socialism Is Much Better than Capitalism, and Communism Will Be a Far Better World, speech by Raymond Lotta Conquer the World? The International Proletariat Must and Will, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP, USA Advancing the World Revolutionary Movement: Questions of Strategic Orientation, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP, USA The End of a Stage — The Beginning of a New Stage, Mao More Than Ever! (PDF) by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP, USA On Proletarian Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship — A Radically Different View of Leading Society, excerpts from “Getting Over the Two Great Humps: Further Thoughts on Conquering the World,” by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP, USA Critical Thinking and the Search for the Truth: Today and in Socialist Society, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution #081, 3/11/2007 Frequently Asked Questions: What Is Communism? What Is Its Real History? What Does It Have to Do With the World Today? (PDF) by Set the Record Straight, 10/8/2006 Revolutionary China (1949-1976) The TRUE Story of Mao Tsetung and the Communist Revolution in China, Part 2, by Li Onesto with a Revolution Writers Group, Revolution #141, 8/24/2008 The TRUE Story of Mao Tsetung and the Communist Revolution in China, Part 1, by Li Onesto, Revolution #140, 8/17/2008 When China Was Socialist, Revolution #137, 7/27/2008 Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and its Anti-Communist Distortions--Unfortunately, No Shock There, by Bob Avakian, Revolution #118, 2/3/2008 “Now We Know Too Much”…Or Do We? The New Yorker, Mao, and Twisting the Numbers, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution #109, 11/18/2007 Social and Economic Achievements Under Mao, Fact Sheet by Set the Record Straight, (PDF version) You Think Communism Is a Good Idea but Doesn't Work? Take this Quiz and Think Again! (PDF) by Set the Record Straight, 7/31/2005 Mao Zedong: Not Fairy-Tale Monster, But Greatest Liberator of Mid-20th Century, (PDF) by Raymond Lotta, 11/6/2005 Bush Cheers New Anti-Mao Biography, Authors Are “Thrilled” – Maoist Scholar Says: “Big Liars and Big Anti-Communists Deserve Each Other,” Press Release by Set the Record Straight, Revolution #033, 2/5/2006 Remembering William Hinton (1919-2004), by Raymond Lotta, Revolutionary Worker #1253, 10/3/2004 Socialist Planning or “Market Socialism”? by Raymond Lotta, Revolutionary Worker #1166, 9/15/2002 From A World to Win: Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, excerpts of speech by Carl Dix, National Spokesperson for the RCP,USA, Revolutionary Worker #1083, 12/17/2000 When the People Had Power: The Economic Miracles of Maoist China, by Raymond Lotta, Revolutionary Worker #1029, 11/7/1999 Mao Tsetung: The Art of War, Part 1: Luring the Enemy in Deep, Revolutionary Worker #1030, 11/14/1999; Part 2: The War Against Japanese Aggression, Revolutionary Worker #1031, 11/21/1999 The End of Deng Xiaoping: Enemy of the People, excerpt from speech by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP,USA – January 29, 1979, Revolutionary Worker #896, 3/2/1997 How Maoist Revolution Wiped Out Drug Addiction in China, by C. Clark Kissinger, Revolutionary Worker #734, 12/5/1993 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Check It Out: New Book - The Battle for China’s Past by Mobo Gao, Revolution #140, 8/17/2008 The Truth About the Cultural Revolution: Fact Sheet by Set the Record Straight, PDF version (PDF) Yang Ban Xi: Model Revolutionary Works in Revolutionary China, by Li Onesto, Revolution #051, 6/18/2006, PDF version “We had a dream that the world can be better than today,” Set the Record Straight interviews Wang Zheng, author of Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era. Revolution #059, 9/3/2006 Daring to Scale the Heights for the Emancipation of Humanity: In Tribute to Zhang Chunqiao: 1917-2005, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution #003, 5/22/2005 Zhang Chunqiao and the Anting Incident, Revolution #003, 5/22/2005 From “On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie” by Zhang Chunqiao (written in 1975), Revolution #003, 5/22/2005 The Red Guards: Hong Wei Bing – In 1966, millions of youth stormed the heavens during China's Cultural Revolution, Revolutionary Worker #966, 7/19/1998 Chiang Ching The Revolutionary Ambitions of a Communist Leader A World To Win #19, 1993 Chiang Ching: A Revolutionary Life, Revolutionary Worker #610, 6/16/1991 Ending Women's Oppression Watching “The People’s Republic of Capitalism” and Remembering the Liberated Women of Socialist China, Revolution #140, 8/17/2008 “We had a dream that the world can be better than today,” Set the Record Straight interviews Wang Zheng, author of Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era. Revolution #059, 9/3/2006 The Experience of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China: Women’s Liberation on the Cutting Edge, Revolution #038, 3/12/2006 Breaking All Tradition's Chains: A Glimpse of the Future from Maoist China, An Interview with Mary Lou Greenberg, Revolutionary Worker #1045, 3/5/2000 How Collective Childcare Liberated Women in Maoist China, by Li Onesto, Revolutionary Worker #956, 5/10/1998 Environment and Socialism Capitalism, the Environment, and Ecology Under Socialism, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution #052, 6/25/2006 Art and Culture Yang Ban Xi: Model Revolutionary Works in Revolutionary China, by Li Onesto, Revolution #051, 6/18/2006, PDF version Writing for the Revolution: The Story of Lu Xun (1881-1936), Revolutionary Worker #970, 8/23/1998 Chiang Ching The Revolutionary Ambitions of a Communist Leader A World To Win #19, 1993 Chiang Ching: A Revolutionary Life, Revolutionary Worker #610, 6/16/1991 Tibet Some Points to Consider about the Efforts to Boycott the China Olympics, by Li Onesto, Revolution #127, 4/20/2008 The Protests in Tibet and the Discontent Below, by Li Onesto, Revolution #125, 4/6/2008 Tibet: From Brutal Theocracy to Socialist Liberation to Capitalist Nightmare, Revolution #125, 4/6/2008 Tibet: The True Story of Maoist Revolution in Tibet, Parts 1-6, Zipped PDF version Soviet Union (1917-1956) The Outrageous Equating of Communism with Nazism, Revolution #011, 8/14/2005 Background for the Movie Enemy At the Gate: The Red Street Fighters of Stalingrad, Revolutionary Worker #1098, 4/15/2001 The 1917 October Revolution: How the Bolsheviks Seized Power, Part 1: The Bolsheviks Win the Masses, Revolutionary Worker #931, 11/9/1997; Part 2: Leninist Tactics: Triple Audacity and Relying on the Masses, Revolutionary Worker #932, 11/16/1997; Part 3: To Delay Is Fatal, Revolutionary Worker #933, 11/23/1997; Part 4: The New Day Dawns, Revolutionary Worker #934, 11/30/1997 History of Socialism Story of the Red Flag, Revolution #047, 5/21/2006 The Communist Manifesto Today: Still True, Still Dangerous, Still the Hope of the Hopeless, by Raymond Lotta, Part 1; Part 2, Revolutionary Worker #958-9, 5/24&31/1998 150th Anniversary: The Story of the Communist Manifesto, Revolutionary Worker #936, 12/14/1997 The Origins of May First: Haymarket 1886 and the “Troublesome Element,” Revolutionary Worker #351, 4/14/1986 Political Economy of Socialism Marx, Karl, Critique of the Gotha Programme. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Marx did not set down a systematic account of how a socialist economy would function. But in this brief work, written towards the end of his life, he does offer more extensive comments on the conditions of emergence and the economic and social organization of socialist and communist society. Lenin, V.I., The State and Revolution, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1973. Taking Marx's ideas further, and defending them against revisionist assault, Lenin discusses the nature of the proletarian state and the economic and political factors involved in the transition from socialism to communism. Stalin, Joseph, Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R., Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. In this essay, written in 1952, Stalin attempts to identify and address key problems arising from the remnants of capitalism still surviving under socialism. The discussion ranges over such issues as the law of value, commodity production, and their effects on the regulation of socialist production, and the continuing contradiction between the forces and relations of production. A serious work of socialist political economy, although also seriously flawed. See next reference. Mao, Tsetung, A Critique of Soviet Economics, New York: Montly Review Press, 1977. Pathbreaking writings dating from the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mao critically examines the Soviet model of socialist construction and its associated principles of socialist political economy. Set against the canvas of the Great Leap Forward, Mao probes the process of continuing revolution and the nature of the transition from socialism to communism--and in so doing stakes out new conceptual territory for Marxism. Chun-chiao, Chang, "On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie," in Lotta, Raymond, ed., And Mao Makes Five, Chicago: Banner Press, 1978; also in Peking Review (14), 4 April 1975. Chang was a key leader of the Cultural Revolution and part of the radical leadership core on whom Mao relied during his last great battle. This essay was written in 1975, as the struggle within the Chinese Communist Party over whether China would remain on the socialist road was coming to a fateful head. It is a highly important analysis of the relations of production under socialism, the contradictions within its ownership system, and the material and ideological conditions giving rise to new privileged and exploiting forces. Avakian, Bob, Mao Tsetung's Immortal Contributions, Chicago: RCP Publications, 1979. A lucid synthesis of Mao's contributions to various fields of Marxism, including the political economy of socialism, that is also a stimulating survey of the development of Marxist theory. The work provides ground as well for understanding key historical and developmental issues of the Chinese revolution. Lotta, Raymond, ed., Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook, New York: Banner Press, 1994. Originally published in China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, this English-language edition has an Introduction and Afterword by Raymond Lotta, on Maoist economics and the theory and practice of Maoist planning. Modern Revisionism U.S. Imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, and Fidel Castro, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution #056, 8/13/2006 Current China (under capitalist rule) “One World, One Dream” and Beijing Olympics: What World, and Whose Dream? Revolution #140, 8/17/2008 Beijing Olympics: U.S. – China Rivalry...On and Off the Field, Revolution #139, 8/10/2008 Shifts and Faultlines in the World Economy and Great Power Rivalry: What Is Happening and What It Might Mean, Part 2. China's Capitalist Development and China's Rise in the World Imperialist System: Its Nature and Implications, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution #137, 7/27/2008 When China Was Socialist, Revolution #137, 7/27/2008 The Capitalist Ground Shaken by the Earthquake in China, by Li Onesto, Revolution #131, 6/1/2008 Some Points to Consider about the Efforts to Boycott the China Olympics, by Li Onesto, Revolution #127, 4/20/2008 Slave Labor in Today’s Capitalist China: The Real Face of the “Chinese Miracle,” from A World to Win News Service, Revolution #107, 11/4/2007 From A World to Win News Service: Snail Fever in China: Scourges of Old Come Back to Life, Revolution #006, 6/19/2005 SARS: Disease and the Dictatorship in China, From A World to Win News Service, Revolutionary Worker #1198, 5/11/2003 Workers Revolt in Capitalist China, Revolutionary Worker #1173, 11/3/2002 Toy Story in China: If Barbie Could Talk, Revolutionary Worker #1166, 9/15/2002 China: AIDS and the epidemic of Capitalism, Revolutionary Worker #1116, 8/26/2001 The Raid of Yuntang: Troops fire on rebel peasants in China, Revolutionary Worker #1101, 5/6/2001 The Demise of the Barefoot Doctors & the Health Crisis in China's Countryside, Revolutionary Worker #1096, 3/25/2001 Women in China: Free Market Slavery, Revolutionary Worker #1001, 4/11/1999 The Tiananmen Events 1989
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