Mount Tai Study Circle

Core Curriculum

Introduction

  1. BYOQ (Bring Your Own Questions)
  2. MLM Basic Course Chapters 1-5
  3. The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by V.I. Lenin
  4. “Engels On the Importance of the Theoretical Struggle” by V.I. Lenin in What Is To Be Done?
  5. A Dialectical Approach Toward Inner Party Unity by Mao Zedong
  6. Recommended Further Reading: How Lenin Studied Marx by Nadezhda Krupskaya

Dialectical Materialism

Module 1

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapters 6
  2. Elementary Principles of Philosophy by Georges Politzer (Intro – Part 1)
  3. On Practice by Mao Zedong
  4. On Contradiction by Mao Zedong

Module 2

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapter 27
  2. Elementary Principles of Philosophy by Georges Politzer (Part 3-4)
  3. Problems and Isms Debate
  4. One Divides Into Two Debate

Scientific Socialism

Module 1

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapter 7
  2. Socialism: Utopian & Scientific by Frederich Engels
  3. State & Revolution by V.I. Lenin
  4. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Frederich Engels (Intro – Ch. 2)

Module 2

Track A

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapter 13
  2. A Retrograde Trend in Russian Social-Democracy by V.I. Lenin
  3. What Is To Be Done? by V.I. Lenin
  4. Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin

Track B

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapter 19
  2. Marxism and the National Question by J.V. Stalin
  3. The Discussion On Self-Determination Summed Up by V.I. Lenin
  4. Preliminary Draft Theses for the Second Congress of the Comintern by V.I. Lenin
  5. The Report of the Commission on the National and Colonial Questions (July 26, 1920) by V.I. Lenin
  6. The Policy of the Soviet Government on the National Question in Russia by J.V. Stalin
  7. Concerning the National Question in Yugoslavia by J.V. Stalin
  8. On New Democracy by Mao Zedong
  9. Negro Liberation (Chapter VII: The Negro Nation) by Harry Haywood
  10. Lynching: a Weapon of National Oppression by Harry Haywood
  11. The 1928 and 1930 Comintern Resolutions on the Black National Question in the United States
  12. On the National Pride of the Great Russians by Lenin
  13. Letter from Karl Marx to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt New York, April 9, 1870
  14. Imperialism and the Split in Socialism by V.I. Lenin
  15. A Critique of the White Blindspot by Alan Sawyer
  16. Recommended Further Readings: On the Slogan for a United States of Europe by V.I. Lenin, The Position of the Bund in the Party by V.I. Lenin, The Right of Nations to Self-Determination by V.I. Lenin, Under a False Flag by V.I. Lenin

Political Economy

Module 1

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapter 8
  2. The Shanghai Textbook (Ch. 1)
  3. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (Preface)
  4. The Shanghai Textbook (Ch. 2-3)
  5. Capital Vol. 1 by Karl Marx (Ch. 6)
  6. The ABC of Communism by Nikolai Bukharin (Ch. 1 – Ch. 2)
  7. The Shanghai Textbook (Ch. 6-8)
  8. Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange (Circulation) by Karl Marx

Module 2

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapter 16
  2. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by V.I. Lenin

Module 3

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapter 29
  2. Critique of Stalin’s ‘Economic Problems Of Socialism In The USSR’ by Mao Zedong

The Russian and Chinese Revolutions

Module 1

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapters 9-18
  2. History of the CPSU(b) Chapters 1-7

Module 2

  1. MLM Basic Course Chapter 30
  2. Khrushchev’s Phony Communism & Its Historical Lessons for the World by Mao Zedong
  3. Evaluating the Cultural Revolution in China and its Legacy for the Future by the MLM Revolutionary Study Group
  4. On Exercising All-Around Dictatorship by Zhang Chunqiao

Miscellaneous

  1. Brooklyn Revolutionary Collective’s Foundational Documents
  2. Karl Marx by V.I. Lenin
  3. Talks at the Yenan Forum by Mao Zedong
  4. A Retrograde Trend in Russian Social-Democracy by V.I. Lenin
  5. Constructive Criticism: A Handbook by Vicki Legion
  6. Towards a Scientific Analysis of the Gay Question by the LARG