When we Maoists refer to "classics," we mean the written works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao or possibly the written works that they approved. The word "classic" means in contrast with theory and analysis of the current day done by revolutionaries who have yet to prove themselves to the extent that these great revolutionaries have.

Oppressor Nation Working Class

• Lenin in "Imperialism": Whole countries are parasites
• Lenin: Not just imperialists are oppressors
• Lenin and COMINTERN: Distinguish labor aristocracy from proletariat or no dictatorship of the proletariat possible
• Lenin: Defending higher pay of oppressor-nation workers is counterrevolutionary
• Lenin, Zinoviev, Trotsky and Stalin: Office-workers are semi-proletariat, less revolutionary than peasants
• Lenin: Super-profits convert proletariat into petty-bourgeoisie
• Lenin: A majority of Germany is petty-bourgeoisie
• Lenin: The longer a country has bourgeois democracy the harder the struggle to defeat the labor aristocracy line
• Lenin predicts our future
• Lenin: from "A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism"
• Lenin: Imperialist country industrial workers become enemy if they pursue improvement in "their own conditions"
• Lenin: Imperialism gives workers petty-bourgeois prosperity
• Lenin: Super-exploitation is increasing
• M.N.Roy: Superprofits are the mainstay of capitalism
• COMINTERN: Not all workers are proletarians
• Mao on imperialist country poisoning of the working-class

Nations, Nationalism, and National Liberation

• Lenin: National oppression is the focal point of the political program of communists
• Lenin: Distinguish between oppressor and oppressed nations
• Lenin: When to support bourgeois nationalism
• Lenin says Blacks are a nation
• Lenin admits belonging to oppressor nation
• Lenin's COMINTERN: Even feudal lords may be allies in national struggle in Turkey
• Mao on the national bourgeoisie
• Peking Review opposes imperialist country "integration" supports Black armed struggle
• Robert Williams speaks in China

The Environment

• Engels from the Dialectics of Nature
• Peking Review seeks economic development and pollution control
• Maoists attack Soviet anti-environmental capitalism
• Peking Review on forestry, 1961
• Chinese communists fought pollution as soon as they came to power in 1949
• People's Daily links afforestation to agricultural success, 1963

Fighting Capitalist Restoration

• "Gang of Four leader": "On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship over the Bourgeoisie"

When to Wage Armed Struggle in the Imperialist Countries

• Mao: Imperialist country comrades should not proceed immediately to armed struggle
• Peking Review supported Black armed struggle late 1960s