English translation of “Il Nostro Manifesto”. I. OUR ORIGINS , II. IDEOLOGICAL REFERENCES: MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM, PRINCIPALLY MAOISM, III. IDEOLOGICAL REFERENCES: MAOISM IN ITALY, IV.PROJECT: SPECIFIC THOUGHT AND POLITICAL PRACTICE, V. MISSION: THE FORMATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
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I. OUR ORIGINS
II. IDEOLOGICAL REFERENCES: MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM, PRINCIPALLY MAOISM
1. MARXISM
1.1. Marxism, the first stage of communist ideology
1.2. Dialectical materialism and historical materialism
1.3. Marxist economic science and Capital
1.4. Scientific socialism
1.5. Marxism: three sources and three component parts
1.6. Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto
1.7. The First International
1.8. The formation of Marxist parties
1.9. Marx on the Paris Commune
2. LENINISM
2.1. Leninism, the second stage of communist ideology
2.2. Lenin and the specification of Marxism in Russia
2.3. The struggle against economism and the formation of the party
2.4. The Leninist theory of the party
2.5. The 1905 Revolution and The Military Theory of The Party
2.6. Leninist theory of hegemony
2.7. The minimum program and the uninterrupted revolution
2.8. The struggle against the new economism
2.9. The theory of imperialism
2.10. The October Revolution and the Critique of Trotskyist Conceptions
2.11. “State and Revolution” (summer 1917)
2.12. “Philosophical Notebooks” and “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism”
2.13. Materialist dialectics and the struggle against the Second International
2.14. The founding of the Third International
2.15. The Birth of the USSR and the Union between the Struggle for Socialism and the Struggle against Imperialism
3. STALIN AND THE AFFIRMATION OF MARXISM-LENINISM
3.1. The struggle for the affirmation of Leninism
3.2. Universal contributions of Comrade Stalin
3.3. The historic seventh Congress of the Communist International
3.4. The Third Communist International and the military theory of the proletariat
3.5. Instruments of the proletarian revolution
3.6. The defeat of Nazifascism, the defense of the red base of the USSR, and the advance of the world proletarian revolution
4. MAOISM
4.1. Maoism: the third stage of communist ideology
4.2. The Communist International and the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao
4.3. Maoism as a higher, organic, and complete synthesis of the experience of the Third International
4.4. Party, front, and people’s army
4.5. The theory of people’s war
4.6. Three great historical stages
4.7. The contributions of Maoism to the theory of imperialism
4.8. The development of the philosophy of dialectical materialism
4.9. The question of ideological struggle
5. THE UNIVERSAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHAIRMAN GONZALO
5.1. Universal contributions related to the definition of Maoism
5.2. Further contributions of universal value made by Chairman Gonzalo
5.3. Studying the specific experience of the Peruvian revolution
5.4. Continuation and development of the work of Chairman Gonzalo
6. THE THOUGHT OF ANTONIO GRAMSCI
6.1. The immortal figure of Antonio Gramsci
6.2. Resuming Gramsci’s Path on the Basis of Maoism
6.3. Right and “left” revisionism against Gramsci
6.4. Reclaiming Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
6.5. The theory of “Passive Revolution”
6.6. Gramsci, imperialism, and the proletarian revolution
6.7. Gramsci and the “War of Position”
6.7.1. The revisionist interpretation of the category of “War of Position”
6.7.2. The “War of Siege”
6.7.3. The proletarian hegemonic front
6.7.4. The disintegration of bourgeois forces
6.7.5. War of Position and War of Maneuver
6.8. Gramsci and the struggle for hegemony: the construction of the revolutionary bloc
6.9. Gramsci and the military theory of the proletariat
6.10. Gramsci and the Southern Question
6.11. Gramsci and the Theses of the Crocian-Togliattian Intellectual Bloc on The Development of Capitalism
6.12. The “Intellectual and Moral Reform”
6.12.1. Intellectual and Moral Reform and Proletarian Ideology
6.12.2. The historical phase of the bourgeoisie’s struggle against feudalism
6.12.3. The role of the intellectuals of the reactionary ruling classes
6.12.4. Gramsci against the influence of Catholicism, reformism, and opportunism
6.12.5. Note on left-wing intellectuals after the Second World War
6.13. Gramsci’s critique of Freudian psychoanalysis
6.13.1. Freud between empiricism and mysticism
6.13.2. The social strata of the “humiliated and offended”
6.13.3. Fictitious identities
6.13.4. Implosions in the sphere of family relationships and personal life and the question of ideology
III. IDEOLOGICAL REFERENCES:
MAOISM IN ITALY
7. SPECIFIC THOUGHT
7.1. The revival of Gramsci on the basis of Maoism
7.2. Italy, a marginal and aggressive imperialism
7.3. A bureaucratic and parasitic imperialism
7.4. The dominant reactionary bloc
7.5. The economic and social roots of opportunism in Italy
7.6. The Social Question
7.7. The Southern Question
7.8. The Sardinian Question
7.9. The People’s Democratic Revolution on the Path to Socialism
7.10. The Democratic Question: for a New Resistance
7.11. The struggles of the 1960s and 1970s and those of today
IV. PROJECT: SPECIFIC THOUGHT AND POLITICAL PRACTICE
8. POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL WORK
8.1. The synthesis of specific thought with practice
8.2. Committees for the anti-fascist people’s democratic front
8.3. For the formation of an anti-imperialist front
8.4. For a class-based trade union organization
8.4.1. The importance of struggle and class-based trade union organization
8.4.2. Economic form and political content of the class-based trade union struggle
8.4.3. Economic form of the class-based trade union struggle
8.4.4. Political content of the class-based trade union struggle
8.4.5. For a critique of the workerist theory of workers’ power
8.4.6. On the question of the “spontaneous initiative of workers”
8.4.7. The class struggle as a school of communism
8.4.8 Bourgeois hegemony in the workplace
8.4.9. The class struggle in the trade unions as a means of building proletarian hegemony
8.4.10. The organizational forms of class union initiative
8.4.11. For an initial program of work and training
8.5. A popular movement for women’s liberation
8.6. For a class-based approach to the LGBTQ+ question
8.6.1. Fighting against the oppression of the LGBTQ+ community
8.6.2. The LGBTQ+ community has a particular interest in the Anti-fascist People’s Democratic Revolution
8.6.3. The need for a political-ideological battle in the far left and in social centers
8.6.4. Opposing red-brownism as an expression of fascist influence
8.6.5. For a class-based political alignment
8.6.6. For dialectical materialism and militancy
8.7. For a national Maoist youth organization
8.7.1. The oppression weighing on young people today
8.7.2. The necessary class identification with the proletariat
8.7.3. Ideological, material, and emotional dependence on the family
8.7.4. Bourgeois divisions of subjectivity
8.7.5. The Maoist youth organization: a response to the contradictions faced by young people
8.8. The need for art in the service of the proletariat and the popular masses
8.8.1. For a revolutionary culture
8.8.2. The question of art as part of the Intellectual and Moral Reform
8.8.3. Art as a philosophical question
8.8.4. The conception of art in neopositivism
8.8.5. Heidegger’s ultra-reactionary line
8.8.6. Against “left-wing” post-modernism
8.8.7. On the relationship between form and content in realistic art
8.8.8. The work of art: realism vs. irrationalism
8.8.9. Realism vs. naturalism
8.8.10. The role of realism in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
8.8.11. The question of the audience’s identification with the work of art
8.8.12. Identification and alienation effect: an apparent contradiction
8.9. The specific ideological struggle
8.9.1. Importance and role of the specific ideological struggle [SIS]
8.9.2. Themes of SIS: the contradiction between the public and private spheres in the lives of militants
8.9.3. Ideology and criticism of psychological conceptions
8.9.4. The constitution of individual subjectivity as historical formation
8.9.5. The denial of the necessity of specific ideological struggle in opportunist groups
8.9.6. SIS and the necessity of a new people’s democratic civil society
8.9.7. Forms and methods of the SIS
V. MISSION: FOR THE FORMATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
9. THE ABC OF THE LENINIST PARTY
9.1. Lenin’s work
9.2. Lenin on the importance of theoretical work
9.3. Lenin’s theoretical struggle for the disintegration of opportunist and revisionist tendencies
9.4. The struggle against opportunism as a central task for the construction of the party
9.5. Where does revolutionary theory come from?
9.6. Who are the vanguard proletarians?
9.7. Class consciousness
9.7.1. Class consciousness and revolutionary theory
9.7.2. The idealistic conception of class consciousness and the reformist distortion of Marx’s economic theory
9.7.3. The spontaneous conception of class consciousness and the councilist and Bordigist theory of the collapse of capitalism
9.7.4. The denial of class consciousness in the workerist interpretation of Marx’s economic theory
9.7.5. What do the revisionist interpretations of economic theory demonstrate?
9.7.6. Marx’s economic theory as one of the fundamental assumptions of Leninist theory of “class consciousness”
9.7.7. Class consciousness and dialectical materialism
9.7.8. Class consciousness and the question of the contradiction between “capital and labor”
9.7.9. The theory of class consciousness: a summary
9.8 Lenin: economic struggle, political struggle for reforms, and revolutionary political struggle
9.8.1. Economic struggle and political struggle for reforms against bourgeois governments
9.8.2. For Lenin, the spontaneous opportunist movement must be diverted towards a revolutionary Marxist movement
9.8.3. The identity between economism and militaristic subjectivism
9.9. Lenin and the central and priority role of revolutionary political struggle
9.10. Lenin: theory, propaganda, and agitation
9.10.1. An excerpt from Lenin on the difference between propaganda and agitation
9.10.2. The characteristics of propaganda
9.10.3. Agitation
9.10.4. The organic relationship between propaganda and agitation
9.11. The Leninist newspaper and the formation of a party of revolutionary cadres
9.11.1. The Leninist theoretical-political newspaper
9.11.2. Combating revisionist approaches to the question of the political newspaper
9.11.3. The Leninist newspaper and the party of cadres
10. THE THEORIES OF OPPORTUNIST GROUPS ON THE QUESTION OF PARTY FORMATION
10.1. The initiatives of some opportunist groups on the question of the party
10.2. Unification on the basis of “communist ethics”
11.3. The formation of the party with the “unification of communists”
10.4. Togliatti’s theory of the mass party and the party-movement
10.5. The idea of the communist party born out of struggle
10.6. The theory of direct or indirect participation in elections as an aspect of the party formation process
10.7. The theory of the “trade union party”
10.8. The thesis of the party-front that is formed according to the form of the revolution
10.9. Bordiga’s theory of convergence with the communist program
10.10. The conception of the party formed on the basis of a New Synthesis
10.10.1. The origin and characteristics of the theory of the New Synthesis of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
10.10.2. Class struggle and the theory of the New Synthesis
10.10.3. The sophistical deception of “starting from the problems”
10.10.4. The falsification of dialectical materialism
10.10.5. The CARC-nPCI theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as an experimental science
10.10.6. The revisionist distortion of dialectical materialism by Proletari Comunisti-PCm
10.10.7. The precursors of the Theory of the New Synthesis (L’Ape e il comunista and La Voce Operaia)
11. WORK FOR THE FORMATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
11.1. For Maoism
11.2. The first phase of the war of position for hegemony
11.3. The subjects to be won over for the formation of the party
11.4. The relationship with the masses
11.5. The generated organisms
11.6. Mass organisms as a “school of communism”
11.7. Mass line and front policy
11.8. The organizations of the Anti-fascist Popular Democratic Front
11.9. Seven tasks for the formation of the party
11.10. The construction of the hegemonic apparatus
11.11. The need for an international organization
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