The Pseudo-Ideological Ballast of the CPC – A comment on Jiang Zemin’s 100th birthday

Jiang Zemin would have turned 100 on 17th August of this year when he wouldn’t have died already on 30th November 2022. Because he was enshrined as a classic of the CPC’s official ideology in 2002 with his three volumes of Selected Works published in 2006 his centenary is a date to look back on his deeds and “ideological merits”. Xi Jinping said on the centenary event for Jiang Zemin on 17th August 2026, with almost the exact same wording

The “Pyramid Theory” of the KKE – A revisionist laughingstock

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) created a theory in March 2013 under their former General Secretary Alexandra Papariga which became famous as the “pyramid theory” of imperialism. This theory was elaborated in an article for the ideological periodical “El Machete” of the Communist Party of Mexico titled “On Imperialism – The Imperialist Pyramid”. The “Pyramid Theory” is an ivory tower theory The “pyramid theory” is revisionist. Why so? According to the pyramid theory also African countries like Uganda and

The Prachanda Path leading nowhere – The failed successful Nepalese Revolution 20 years later

Between 1996 and 2006 the South Asian Himalaya country Nepal was stuck in a civil war between the Kingdom of Nepal and Maoist rebels led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) which in the end led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a federal republic. The tragedy lies in the fact that the CPN(M) failed despite being successful with its people´s war strategy in the civil war. This history should be studied to draw conclusions

Regarding Collectivity and Discipline

The Communist League of Uganda is already existing for over one year. We have advanced in the construction of branches and cells, still the organization is somewhat disjointed. The reason is the simultaneous growth of central and local organs. Collectivity is needed as the “grout” among our members. This is what differs a communist party from a bourgeois party like the NRM or NUP which might have a common identity as party members but lack a collectivist spirit. But what

The Ugandan Communists need to know Uganda´s national conditions well

Marxism-Leninism is a scientific world outlook, therefore universal. That is a truism. The universality is the generality meaning that it can be internationally applied; the particular implementation on the national conditions of a single country is the concrete. Both exist in a dialectical connection, inseparable. Stalin once said: “Theory becomes purposeless if it is not connected with revolutionary practice, just as practice gropes in the dark if its path is not illumined by revolutionary theory.”1 If there would be no

What is Marxism?

Marxism is no ideology that newly emerged, but it is one of the most misunderstood ideologies in human history. It is the ideology we root our thinking in as communists, so we need to get a clear understanding of what Marxism means by definition. Confucius once said: “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.”1

Is “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” really just socialism?

Also available as a PDF. So called “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is leading to confusion among many comrades. There is a harsh debate going on about it for many years already between revisionist apologists and Marxist-Leninist critics. Let us look into the facts. Xi Jinping claimed in January 2013 in a study session in front of the back then newly elected 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China: “Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism and nothing else. The

The Feudal Mode of Production in pre-colonial Uganda

The class analysis of the Ugandan society today contains a sentence that caused some requests. It is this one: “Before the arrival of the British colonialists most of Uganda already was a class society, a feudal one under the rule of local kings, such as the Kabaka of Buganda.”1 I will clarify this passage more in the following. Confusions about the essence of feudalism It is obvious that in East Africa class societies were already existing. The romanticization of the

Examination of an Example of Exploitation

Here you can download the article as a PDF file. This article was first published on 26th December 2017 on The Red Path. Comrades, I got a real example of exploitation in an amusement park by an American comrade, whose name I will not name here. Let us call him here “Comrade T”. Let´s get started! 1. The given data of that amusement park: Park in general: Average 10.000 guests per day x 6 days = 60.000 guests per week;