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Understanding Maoism: Critique of Maoist Reason

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

J. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and works as casualized contract faculty at York University where he received his PhD in philosophy. He is the author of Austerity Apparatus, Continuity and Rupture, and Demarcation and Demystification.

In this episode, Breht and JMP discuss intra-Maoist lines of thought, examine their differences, and argue for a specific strain of Maoist thought as most in line with a scientific approach to socialism; one that avoids the traps of dogmatism, eclecticism, and opportunism.

Get the 2nd Edition of The Communist Necessity HERE

Get Critique of Maoist Reason HERE

Check out JMP's website HERE

Outro Music: 'JU$T' by Run The Jewels (feat. Pharrell Williams and Zach de la Rocha)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

0:09.8

For today's episode we are going to be discussing Jay Mouthwad Paul's new book Critique of

0:15.7

Maoist Reason.

0:17.3

Long time listeners of Rev Left are probably very familiar with JMP.

0:21.8

He's been on a number of times.

0:24.4

His big work that I think is most known on the left is continuity and rupture.

0:28.9

But he's also a prolific author on many other texts related to the Maoist terrain.

0:34.8

And in this book he's basically thinking through Maoism, thinking through the different

0:41.1

sub-tendencies of Maoism, the disagreements within Maoist tradition and really clarifying

0:47.7

and demarcating lines of struggle within that overall milieu.

0:52.2

There are probably in this book he names up to five different general Maoist tendencies

0:59.0

and works methodically through them to see which one represents actual scientific socialism

1:07.3

and which ones are deviations of dogmatism, eclecticism or some combination of both.

1:13.0

So this is going to be sort of a more advanced deep dive into Maoism.

1:16.8

If you're utterly ignorant to the Maoist tradition we have previous episodes where we do

1:21.6

more 101 introductions to Maoism.

1:24.3

But if you have a fair grasp of where Maoism stands in the overall, the Rorina of Marxist

1:29.6

thought, then I think this will be really informative, even if you're not a Maoist.

1:33.9

But if you do consider yourself a Maoist or if you do have interest in the Maoist tradition

1:38.6

or want to learn more about it after having grasped sort of 101 basic concepts, this will

1:43.4

be a really interesting dive into the debates within the Maoist terrain overall.

1:49.0

We always love having JMP on.

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