"We should get our comrades to understand that the twofold basic task of the leading bodies of the Communist Party is to know conditions and to master policy; the former means knowing the world and the latter changing the world." -Mao Zedong, 1941, Reform our Study
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[This 1975 article by the Bolshevik Tendency/Bolshevik Union was republished by the Encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism here and by Rowland Keshena of Speed of Dreams here. Keshena’s introduction to the article is also included below.]
This is from the magazine Canadian Revolution (No. 4, Novemeber / September 1975), which was part of the second wave of Canadian anti-revisionism, a period in the development and history of Canadian Marxism-Leninism analogous to the New Communist Movement in the United States. It was written by two unnamed members of the Bolshevik Tendency, which would soon after this piece’s publication go on to consolidate themselves as the Bolshevik Union.
The BT/BU began its life as part of the worldwide pro-Chinese movement in the 1960s and 70s, following the rise of revisionism in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Following the death of Mao and the coming to power in China of Deng Xiaoping, the BT/BU would go on to side with the Party of Labour in Albania and its leader Enver Hoxha. However, after the Albanians recognized the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), whom the BT/BU saw as revisionist, to be their fraternal party, they broke with mainstream anti-revisionism.
This article comes from the period of their alignment with the Maoist movement.
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Inspired by some recent posts on Kasama Project, we thought we would share a video version of Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit. One of the great advancements of Marxism over previous forms of utopian socialism was its insistence on the use of the scientific method in the examination of social and material reality and the development of revolutionary theory. Many previous Party-building movements forgot this principle and instead relied on inherited theories, issued polemics and promoted strategies disconnected from concrete conditions and made gross errors in logic and rhetoric in their criticisms of other groups. In this round of struggle we need to do better.
Also, from carlsagan.com:
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