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Bogomtale af bogen "Turning Money into Rebellion" om "Blekingegadebanden" skrevet og redigeret af Gabriel Kuhn, og udgivet på Tysk Engelsk og svensk.

p. 24-25:
"... One thing is certain, that the death-hour of old China is rapidly drawing nigh. Civil war has already divided the South from the North of the Empire, and the Rebel King seems to be as secure from the Imperialists (if not from the intrigues of his own followers) at Nanking, as the Heavenly Emperor from the rebels at Peking."

Follow-up and deepening of Gotfred Appels critique of CCP media outlets information of the situation in Western Europe presented in previous letter to the Central Committee of China's Communist Party, posted at April 24, 1968.
The letter was published for the first time at snylterstaten.dk [Parasite State] in August 2013.

p. 19-21:
"They destroyed it by breaking up the native communities, by uprooting the native industry, and by levelling all that was great and elevated in the native society."
"All the English bourgeoisie may be forced to do will neither emancipate nor materially mend the social condition of the mass of the people, depending not only on the development of the productive powers, but of their appropriation by the people."
"While they prated in Europe about the inviolable sanctity of the national debt, did they not confiscate in India the dividends of the rayahs who had invested their private savings in the Company's own finds?"

Contents:
On Productive Forces and Conditions of Production p.143
The Possibilities of Socialism in the imperialist Countries p. 144
Reformism p. 147
The Rise of Reformism p. 147
The Political Development in the Interwar Period p.154
The Effects of Unequal Exchange on International Solidarity p.156
The Working Class has Become a "Sacred Cow" to the Left Wing p.170
Conclusion for the Imperialist Countries p. 174
The Possibilities of Socialism in the Exploited Countries p. 177
What is Development and Underdevelopment? p. 178
The Connection Between Unequal Exchange and Unequal Development p. 180
For a New World Order – What is Progressive? p.189
For a Socialist World Order p. 191
Conclusion Concerning the Perspectives of Socialism in the Exploited Countries p. 195

p. 2-6:
"There are many contradictions in the process of development of a complex thing, and one of them is necessarily the principal contradiction whose existence and development determine or influence the existence and development of the other contradictions", Mao Tse-tung says in his "On Contradiction", and later on he puts is still more precisely that ".. at every stage in the development of a process there is only one principal contradiction which plays the leading role. ... Therefore, in studying any complex process in which there are two or more contradiction we must devote every effort to finding its principal contradiction." "
The first of 2 articles on dialectical materialism.

s. 5:
The six articles in this pamphlet were originally published in “Communist ORIENTATION” in the years 1967 and 1968. They were the result of long-term deliberations and thorough discussions among a group of people in Communist Working Circle (CWC), and they were published anonymously as an expression of the view of this organisation.

p. 52-53
"The most repulsive thing here is the bourgeois "respectability" bred into the bones of the workers."

p. 26-28:
"The different momenta of primitive accumulation distribute themselves now, more or less in chronological order, particularly over Spain, Portugal, Holland, France, and England. In England at the end of the 17th century, they arrive at a systematical combination, embracing the colonies, the national debt, the modern mode of taxation, and the protectionist system. These methods depend in part on brute force, e.g., the colonial system."

p. 75-77:
Full text of V.I. Lenin: Ten "Socialist" Ministers.

p. 45-50:
"The truth is this: during the period of England's industrial monopoly the English working-class have, to a certain extent, shared in the benefits of the monopoly. These benefits were very unequally parcelled out amongst them; the privileged minority pocketed most, but even the great mass had, at least, a temporary share now and then. And that is the reason why, since the dying-out of Owenism, there has been no Socialism in England. With the breakdown of that monopoly, the English working-class will lose that privileged position; it will find itself generally – the privileged and leading minority not excepted – on a level with its fellow-workers abroad. And that is the reason why there will be Socialism again in England."

The essence of the Blekingegade Group was international solidarity. A solidarity that “you can hold in your hands.” Concretely, money. Lots of money. Acquired in robberies in the metropolitan North and passed on to the tricontinental South. For many years. Respect!

p. 21-23:
"Ireland may be regarded as the first English colony and as one which because of its proximity is still governed exactly in the old way, and one can already notice here that the so-called liberty of English citizens is based on the oppression of the colonies."
"The country was completely ruined by the English wars of conquest from 1100 to 1850 (for in reality both the wars and the state of siege lasted as long as that)."

p. 25:/br> "...is really bound up with the fact that the English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois, so that this most bourgeois of all nations is apparently aiming ultimately at the possession of a bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat alongside the bourgeoisie. For a nation which exploits the whole world this is of course to a certain extent justifiable."

Short precentation of the the editor / writer of the book Gabriel Kuhn and the writer of the foreword Klaus Viehmann.

p. 31:
"What do you say to the elections in the factory districts? Once again the proletariat has discredited itself terribly."

p. 57-58:
Extract from V.I. Lenin: A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism.

In this episode I interview Torkil Lauesen, longtime anti-imperialist activist and author of two books including “The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance” and his latest “The Principal Contradiction”. We discuss Maoism, both historically and in the modern age, the election of Joe Biden, and we speak briefly about his upcoming book “Riding the Wave” 

About the publication: From: Communist Orientation, No. 1, April 10, 1975, p. 1-2. Translated from Danish "Kommunistisk Orientering", December, 1974, nr. 1, p.1-2. Actually Gotfred Appel was not credited for the text either in the danish or the English edition - Only a few of his texts was credited to him. Back to...

"...Torkil Lauesen’s The Principal Contradiction is something of a breath of fresh air since it is concerned with centering and demystifying dialectical reason and, specifically, its iteration as dialectical materialism."