MLM 101 Curriculum

Objectives

● Develop an introductory understanding of some key concepts in MLM

○ Dialectical materialism and historical materialism vs idealism
○ Contradictions
○ Capital
○ Wage labour
○ The State
○ Mass work
○ National oppression
○ Proletarian feminism vs other trends of feminism
○ The vanguard
○ Settler-colonialism
○ Lumpen
○ Roots of Maoism as an advance in scientific socialism
● Become familiar with foundational texts that are frequently referenced by other theoretical and
practical works

Schedule

Week 1
Wage Labour and Capital - Marx and Engels
Chapters 1-2 from Quotations of Mao

Week 2
Principles of Communism - Engels
Chapters 3-4 from Quotations of Mao

Week 3
Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? - Mao
Combat Liberalism - Mao
Chapters 5-6 from Quotations of Mao

Week 4
On Authority - Engels
Chapters 7-8 from Quotations of Mao

Week 5
On the Vanguard Party, Once Again - K. Rashid Johnson
Chapters 9-10 from Quotations of Mao

Week 6
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement - Ghandy
Chapters 11-12 from Quotations of Mao

Week 7
On Practice - Mao
Chapters 13-14 from Quotations of Mao

Week 8
On Contradiction - Mao
Chapters 15-16 from Quotations of Mao

Week 9
Mass Work - CPP
Chapters 17-18 from Quotations of Mao

Week 10
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Engels
Chapters 19-20 from Quotations of Mao

Week 11
You've got to make a commitment! - Hampton
Chapters 21-22 from Quotations of Mao

Week 12
Through chapter 2 of What Is To Be Done? - Lenin

Week 13
Chapter 3 and 4 of What Is To Be Done? - Lenin

Week 14
Finish What Is To Be Done? - Lenin
Week 15
The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory - Sakai
Chapters 23-24 from Quotations of Mao

Week 16
Mao Z's Revolutionary Laboratory & the Lumpen/Proletariat
Chapters 25-26 from Quotations of Mao

Week 17
Introduction through "The Greek Gens" of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Engels
Chapters 27-28 from Quotations of Mao

Week 18
“The Rise of the Athenian State” through the end of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State -
Engels
Chapters 29-30 from Quotations of Mao

Week 19
Preface through Chapter 2 of State and Revolution - Lenin

Week 20
Chapters 3 and 4 of State and Revolution - Lenin

Week 21
Chapters 5 through Postscript of State and Revolution - Lenin

Week 22
Through “The Contradictions of White Labour” of Settlers - Sakai
Chapters 31-32 from Quotations of Mao

Week 23
“The Bourgeois Proletariat” through “World War II and “Americanization”” of Settlers - Sakai
Chapters 33 from Quotations of Mao

Week 24
“The End of the Euro-Amerikan "Left"” through the end of Settlers - Sakai
Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism! - RIM
Texts

Group 1
Chapters 1-10 from Quotations of Mao
Principles of Communism - Engels
Wage Labour and Capital - Marx and Engels
Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? - Mao
On Authority - Engels
Combat Liberalism - Mao
On the Vanguard Party, Once Again - K. Rashid Johnson

Group 2
Chapters 11-20 from Quotations of Mao
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement - Ghandy
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Engels
On Practice - Mao
On Contradiction - Mao
Mass Work - CPP
What Is To Be Done? - Lenin
You've got to make a commitment! - Hampton

Group 3
Chapters 21-33 from Quotations of Mao
Origins of Private Property, Family, and the State - Engels
State and Revolution - Lenin
Settlers - Sakai
The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory and Mao Z's Revolutionary Laboratory & the
Lumpen/Proletariat: Thoughts on the Making of the Lumpen/Proletariat - Sakai
Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism! - RIM