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J. Moufawad-Paul is a Canadian academic, writer and blogger from Toronto, Canada. A Maoist philosopher, Moufawad-Paul has written several works on the topic and regularly posts on his blog M-L-M Mayhem which focuses on the philosophy of Maoism. Wikipedia

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“We need to recognize that Maoism as a concept stands over and above the name of Mao Zedong, just as Marxism and Leninism must stand over the name of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, respectively.”

J. Moufawad-Paul

Source: Continuity and Rupture:Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain (2016), Chapter Two, Science's Dogmatic Shadow

“The process of continuity and rupture is internally defined by the process of universality and particularity.”

J. Moufawad-Paul

Continuity and Rupture:Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain (2016)

“If anything, Theory of the Subject is a work of Marxist philosophy that contains all of the contradictions reached by Marxism-Leninism, while being, at the same time, aware that these contradictions are contradictions insofar as they point to the necessity of a new rupture in revolutionary science.”

J. Moufawad-Paul

Source: Continuity and Rupture:Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain (2016), Chapter one

“Regardless of its mobilization of the name Maoism, it was only a precursor of contemporary Maoism—its skeleton, its DNA—and was ultimately conditioned by the fossil remains of a Leninism that had reached its limit, despite those moments where it yearned for more than Leninist orthodoxy.”

J. Moufawad-Paul

Prologue: Maoism and Philosophy
Continuity and Rupture:Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain (2016)

“The moment one speaks of returning to the concept of a revolutionary communist party, and motivates this return with a reclamation of past categories of struggle (i. e. the vanguard, proletariat-bourgeoisie, revisionism and anti-revisionism, revolutionary science), every defense mechanism conditioned by the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the supposed triumph of world capitalism is mobilized to inoculate the reader from ideological contamination.”

J. Moufawad-Paul

Prologue: Maoism and Philosophy
Continuity and Rupture:Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain (2016)

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