Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain

by J. Moufawad-Paul author of Continuity and Rupture, The Communist Necessity, and Demarcation

Overview

A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785354762
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	12/09/2016
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

J. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and works as casualized contract faculty at York University where he received his PhD in philosophy. He shares a living space with his partner, Vicky Moufawad-Paul, a brilliant artist and curator, and his daughter, Samiya, who will invariably lead the revolution once she realizes her Moomin books are not necessarily revolutionary theory. J. Moufawad-Paul blogs regularly at MLM Mayhem and his first book, The Communist Necessity, was published by Kersplebedeb in 2014.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xi

Prologue: Maoism and Philosophy xii

Chapter 1 The Terrain of Maoism-qua-Maoism 1

Chapter 2 Science's Dogmatic Shadow 53

Chapter 3 The General Limits of Marxism-Leninism 93

Chapter 4 Maoist Openings 136

Chapter 5 A New Anti-Revisionism 164

Chapter 6 Organization and Strategy 188

Epilogue: The Maoist Necessity 222

Appendix: Maoism or Trotskyism 227

Bibliography 271

Acknowledgments 276