Silencing the Enemy to Hear the People: Towards a Correct View of Freedom of Speech

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” – Voltaire (liberal idealist) VS. “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” – Joseph V. Stalin (pragmatic revolutionary)

Untangling the Ball of String: Keeping Imperialism as the Primary Contradiction

A primary part of being a Maoist-Third Worldist is acknowledging that imperialism is the primary contradiction in the world. The largest problem facing the world is First World imperialism or empire grinding Third World people into the deepest of poverty and the greatest heights of suffering. The local or comprador capitalist wields less power in…