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The introduction frames “critique” as rigorous examination rather than rejection, using examples from Kant, Sartre, and Mbembe to clarify the philosophical convention. The book deliberately provokes misunderstanding to map key failures in thought, such as dogmatic denunciation and semantic formalism, while defining its aims and boundaries around Maoist reasoning.","Critique of Maoist Reason  \nJ. Moufawad-Paul  \nForeign Languages Press  \nForeign Languages Press Collection “New Roads” \\#5 A collection directed by Christophe Kistler  \nContact – [redspark.contact@protonmail.com](redspark.contact@protonmail.com)[ ](redspark.contact@protonmail.com)[https://foreignlanguages.press](https://foreignlanguages.press)  \nParis 2020  \nFirst Edition  \nISBN: 978-2-491182-11-3  \nThis book is under license Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)  \n[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nContents  \nIntroduction 1  \nChapter 1 The Route Charted to Date 7  \nChapter 2 Thinking Science 19  \nChapter 3 The Maoist Point of Origin 35  \nChapter 4 Against Communist Theology 51  \nChapter 5 The Dogmato-eclecticism of“Maoist Third 69  \nWorldism”  \nChapter 6 Left and Right Opportunist Practice 87  \nChapter 7 Making Revolution 95  \nConclusion 104  \nAcknowledgements 109  \nIntroduction  \nIntroduction  \nIn the face of critical passivity and dry formalism we must uphold our collective capacity to think thought. The multiple articulations of bourgeois reason demand that we accept the current state of affairs as natural, reducing critical thinking to that which functions within the boundaries drawn by its order. Even when we break from the diktat of this reason to pursue revolutionary projects, it is difficult to break from the way this ideological hegemony has trained us to think from the moment we were born. Since we are still more-or-less immersed in capitalist culture––from our jobs to the media we consume––the training persists.1 Hence, while we might supersede the boundaries drawn by bourgeois reason, it remains a constant struggle to escape its imaginary. The simplicity encouraged by bourgeois reasoning––formulaic repetition, a refusal to think beneath the appearance of things––thus finds its way into the reasoning of those who believe they have slipped its grasp. We must always be vigilant in the renewal of our thinking, struggling against the patterns of thought encouraged by bourgeois reason, so to keep our counter-reasoning sharp. Such vigilance is doubly required for the most revolutionary expression of such reasoning to date: Maoist reason. To think Marxism as Marxism now is to also think Maoism.  \nLest the title of this book is misunderstood let us begin with a definition of the concept critique. Critique is not synonymous with criticism although it can contain multiple criticisms. I am certain there will be those who read this title and misinterpret/misrepresent it as being the kind of negative criticism that implies “rejection” of its object of investigation. That is, the “critique of Maoist reason” will be dishonestly read as a rejection of Maoism, a critical denunciation of this theoretical terrain. Some readers might wonder, then, why I would risk provoking this misapprehension rather than choosing another name. But such a provocation is intentional: as we shall see it is precisely this  \n1 Outside of the imperialist metropoles this training is less hegemonic, which is one reason why revolutionary movements are able to generate a strong counter-hegemony. Even still, due to the export of imperialist cultural production, capitalist ideology saturates the globe.  \nCritique of Maoist Reason  \nkind of failure in thought––dogmatic denunciation, semantic formalism, dishonest representation––that this project aims to chart, drawing important demarcations.  \nNeither pejorative criticism let alone outright rejection, a critique is the rigorous examination of its object of investigation. Critical analysis, evaluation, assessment, engagement. For example, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason was an attempt to thoroughly analyze the meaning of reason, an elevation of a curious type of Enlightenment “pure reason”over other claims to reason. 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