[Marxist-Leninist pamphlets, correspondence and ephemera, 1949-1982]
Published: 1949
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Communist revisionism; Communism; Communist Party of the United States of America (Marxist-Leninist)
Notes: Marxism–Leninism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of classical Marxism and Leninism. In general, Marxist–Leninists support the idea of a vanguard party, a one-party state, proletarian state-dominance over the economy, internationalism, opposition to bourgeois democracy, and opposition to capitalism.

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) acted as the vanguard of the U.S. working class well into the 1950s. Marxist-Leninists fought against a revisionist takeover of the CPUSA and initiated a movement to build a new communist party in place of the old CP. The first effort quickly degenerated into an openly Trotskyist sect, driving all the Marxist-Leninists out of its ranks. The second effort, also initiated by former members of the CPUSA, was the Progressive Labor Party (PLP). Again, a neo-Trotskyite line gained dominance in this organization. By the late 1960s, all genuine Marxist-Leninists had abandoned PLP, placing their hopes in the future formation of a genuine communist party. Subsequently, the 1960s gave rise to many organizational forms – pre-party organizations, local collectives and circles.
Table of contents: title: The draft declaration of the Marxist-Leninist Organization of the U.S.A (197u?); title: Exceptions by prominient Americans to the 'Summary' and 'Recomnmendation' of the Chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board inthe case of the Jefferson School of Social Science (Apr. 15, 1955; 16 pages); title: [Report on the history of trade unions] (typescript; [10] pages); title: Errata for RWL: building the party on bourgeois ideology : a call to struggle against 'left' opportunism / by Communist Workers Committee (Marxist-Leninist) (n.d.; 4, [1] pages); title: Et Druids denounce Marxism (1977(?); 5 pages); title: 'Left' and right errors in work among minority nationalities : [a study article on the left and right deviations from Marxism] (n.d., [2] pages); title: [Letter from members and supporters of various Guardian Bureaus re: Irwin Silber dismissal (Aug. 6, 1979); title: References to the struggles for reforms (n.d.; [5] pages); title: Fourth International / Revolutionary Marxist Organizing Committee (1 sheet; 198u?); title: Lenin and the theory of 'Democratic Dictatorship' : a reply to Doug Jenness / by Les Evans (a Forum pamphlet; Sept. 1982); title: Resolution on the North American Conference to consolidate Mao Tsetung thought / American Communist Workers' Movement (Marxist-Leninist) (1969; 2 pages); title: Press release from the Jefferson School of Social Science re: opposition to a recommendation to order the school to register as an alleged 'Communist front organization' (1954?; [2] pages); title: Marxist-Leninist Organzing Committee announce publication of Unite! ([1975]; 1 sheet); title: Marxist-Leninist Organzing Committee in celebration of October 1917-October 1949 presents a forum: Build the Party! Smash revisionism! Against the CPUSA! (1975; 1 sheet); title: Citizens Party: warmed over Carter stew (excerpted from the Workers' Advocate, August 25, 1980) / Marxist-Leninist Party, S.F. Bay Area Branch (1980 ; [4] pages); title: NY Marxist school to close at end of term / Daily People's World (newspaper clipping; 1956).