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The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement
By Scott Harrison
Table of Contents
Title and Copyright pages Frontis Quotations Preface [Revised: 06/12/23] 1. Introduction 2. From the Masses, To the Masses 3. A Quick Overview of the Mass Line 4. Misconceptions and Distortions of the Mass Line Method of Leadership 5. Who Are the Masses? 6. Have Faith in the Masses 7. The Initiative, Creativity and Ideas of the Masses 8. The Masses Too Have Shortcomings 9. The Spontaneity of the Masses 10. The Proletarian Party and the Masses 11. Agitation and Propaganda 12. Leadership of the Masses: Bourgeois and Proletarian 13. Methods of Leadership and the Mass Line 14. The Three Component Parts of the Mass Line 15. The Mass Line Method—Gathering the Ideas of the Masses 16. The Mass Line Method—Processing the Ideas of the Masses 17. The Scope of the Mass Line 18. Strategy, Tactics and the Mass Line 19. The Mass Line, Reformist Struggle and the Revolutionary Goal 20. Objective Conditions and the Mass Line 21. The Mass Line Method—Returning the Line to the Masses 22. The Mood of the Masses 23. Mass Combativity 24. The Masses’ Own Experience 25. Stay Close to the Masses 26. The Masses in Their Millions 27. The Mass Line and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 28. The Mass Line and Proletarian Democracy [Added: 10/29/24] 29. The Mass Line and Democratic Centralism 30. The Mass Line and the Theory of Knowledge 31. What Contradictions Does the Mass Line Resolve? 32. The Origin and Development of the Mass Line 33. Traditional Reactionary Attitudes Towards the Masses 34. Bourgeois Views of the Mass Line 35. Can the Bourgeoisie Use the Mass Line? 36. Soviet Revisionism and the Mass Line 37. Chinese Revisionism and the Mass Line 38. The Mass Line and the Political Economy of Socialism 39. The Mass Line and “Transitional” Demands 40. The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement 41. The Present Attitude of the RCP Towards the Mass Line 42. Revolutionary Primitivism and the Masses 43. Conclusion Appendix: Chinese Names Bibliography
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