When we Maoists refer to "classics," we mean the written works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao or possibly the written works that they approved. The word "classic" means in contrast with theory and analysis of the current day done by revolutionaries who have yet to prove themselves to the extent that these great revolutionaries have. We also have a page of documents from the Communist Party of China about
life under Mao, 1949 to 1976.

See also our page of "we told you so" quotes.

See also our web page for Mao's books and articles

Armed struggle: When to Wage Armed Struggle in the Imperialist Countries

• Lenin and Stalin: Proletariat smashes the state, seizes power and then the majority changes, not the other way around (1926)
• Mao: Imperialist country comrades should not proceed immediately to armed struggle
• Peking Review supported Black armed struggle late 1960s

Capitalist Restoration

• "Gang of Four leader": "On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship over the Bourgeoisie"

The Environment

• Engels from the Dialectics of Nature
• Peking Review seeks economic development and pollution control
• Maoists attack Soviet anti-environmental capitalism

Line

• Lenin criticizes Trotsky for people-managing instead of line-managing (1910)

Nations, Nationalism, and National Liberation

• Lenin: National oppression is the focal point of the political program of communists
• Lenin: Distinguish between oppressor and oppressed nations
• Lenin: When to support bourgeois nationalism
• Lenin says Blacks are a nation
• Lenin admits belonging to oppressor nation
• Lenin's COMINTERN: Even feudal lords may be allies in national struggle in Turkey
• Lenin says national bourgeoisie still progressive in Asia (1912)
• J. Stalin: On anti-semitism
• J. Stalin: On assimilation as a counter-revolutionary approach to nations (1929)
• J. Stalin: Definition of nation excludes having a state (1929)
• J. Stalin: Nations arise in battle against capitalism and do not disappear until gradually after a long period of global socialism (1929)
• J. Stalin: As the revolution succeeds in spreading into the most exploited and oppressed more nations arise (1925)
• Mao says nationalism of the oppressed "applied internationalism" (1938)
• Mao on the national bourgeoisie
• Mao: "Workers and oppressed nations unite!" (1963)
• Mao: Have confidence in the global revolution to avoid liquidationism (1963)
• Peking Review opposes imperialist country "integration" supports Black armed struggle
• Peking Review commemorates W.E.B. Du Bois
• Robert Williams speaks in China
• China addresses the U.N. on the Third World (1971)

• Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels: A portion of the bourgeoisie will defect to communist revolution (1848)
• Friedrich Engels: England aims for "bourgeois proletariat" (1858)
• Friedrich Engels: Strikes for better conditions useless in England (1879)
• Friedrich Engels: Unproductive labor took over among the free of Rome (1880)
• Friedrich Engels: No "real proletarian movement" in England (1883)
• Friedrich Engels: Under some circumstances special added surplus-value goes to the purchaser of an export commodity (1887)
  
• Karl Marx: Unproductive sector workers are "parasites"
• Lenin in "Imperialism": Whole countries are parasites
• Lenin distinguishes between labor bureaucrats and the labor aristocracy
• Lenin: Not just imperialists are oppressors
• Lenin and COMINTERN: Distinguish labor aristocracy from proletariat or no dictatorship of the proletariat possible
• Lenin: Defending higher pay of oppressor-nation workers is counterrevolutionary
• Lenin, Zinoviev, Trotsky and Stalin: Office-workers are semi-proletariat, less revolutionary than peasants
• Lenin: Super-profits convert proletariat into petty-bourgeoisie
• Lenin: A majority of Germany is petty-bourgeoisie
• Lenin: The longer a country has bourgeois democracy the harder the struggle to defeat the labor aristocracy line
• Lenin predicts our future
• Lenin: from "A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism"
• Lenin: Imperialist country industrial workers become enemy if they pursue improvement in "their own conditions"
• Lenin: The revolutionaries are enemies of the labor aristocracy (1920)
  
• Lenin: Petty-bourgeoisie and its political representatives must be politically discredited (1920)


• Lenin: On the bourgeois trends the proletariat must defeat (1920)
• Lenin: Imperialism gives workers petty-bourgeois prosperity
• Lenin: Super-exploitation is increasing
• Lenin: from "Socialism and War"
• Lenin: "How the Bourgeoisie Utilises Renegades"
• Lenin: Don't unite with labor aristocracy political trends: overthrow them (1915)
• Lenin on the mildness of the super-profit situation --in Russia
• Lenin: "The Collapse of the Second International"
• M.N.Roy: Superprofits are the mainstay of capitalism
• COMINTERN: Not all workers are proletarians
• Mao on imperialist country poisoning of the working-class
• Mao: revisionism based in labor aristocracy (1963)
• Mao: revolution in imperialist countries "impossible" without Third World support (1963)
• From "Long Live the Victory of People's War (1965)" by Lin Piao (Lin Biao) on how imperialist countries will be changed
• Shih Chun (1973) writing in official CPC press: old and new revisionists both based in super-profits
• Zhou Enlai (1971) on Amerikkkans knowing their own conditions

Party organization

• Lenin criticizes Trotsky for people-managing instead of line-managing (1910)
  
• Lenin defines what opportunism is
  
• Lenin on party organization
  

Wimmin

• Marx and Engels on prostitution