(Ethan, please use PLAIN TEXT in the future. This bounced because it was sent in HTML.)
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Literature on Western Maoism From: Ethan Young <ethanyo...@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:14:41 -0400 (EDT) To: marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Monthly Review does not hide its pro-Cultural Revolution sympathies - in fact they just published a new book taking this now-rare view: http://www.monthlyreview.org/books/unkculturalrevolution.php On US Maoism: http://www.revolutionintheair.com/ US & French Maoism: Belden Fields: Trotskyism and Maoism: Theory and Practice in France and the United States. Probably the key work drawing interest in China within the US 60s movement was William Hinton's Fanshen. The success of the Progressive Labor Party in building a powerful faction in SDS played a role; PL was the largest Maoist party in the US in the 60s, before they broke with China. Maoism drew support from important black figures and groups, including Shirley Graham DuBois, Robert F. Williams, Bill Epton, Malcolm X [who saw China as an example of a united anti-imperialist nation], Max Stanford, the Black Panther Party and the Black Workers Congress. Most of the information on China came directly from China, in the form of the weekly Peking Review, as well as reports from western China supporters like Anna Louise Strong, Felix Greene and Maud Russell, who published the newsletter Far East Reporter. The largest independent far-left paper, the Guardian, was pro-China in the 50s through the early 70s. ey ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
