The Mass Line – Methods of Leadership and Methods of Work

The following study guide was originally published by The Marxist-Leninist news blog: 

“In all the practical work of our Party, all correct leadership is necessarily ‘from the masses, to the masses’.” – Mao Zedong, “Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership”

Basic and Essential readings

• Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership by Mao Zedong
• Some Points on the Mass Line by FRSO
• Lessons from the RNC: Mass Mobilization and Militant Actions Advance the Struggle by FRSO

Supplemental readings

• Organize Mass Criticism from Below by J. V. Stalin
• Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders by W. Z. Foster
• The Bolshevik Newspaper Pravda from the History of the CPSU – Short Course
• Stalin, Leader of Peoples, Man of the Masses by Dolores Ibárruri
• Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong
• Oppose Stereotyped Party Writing by Mao Zedong
• Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work by Mao Zedong
• The Party’s Mass Line Must Be Followed in Supressing Counter-Revolutionaries by Mao Zedong
• Speech at the Chinese Communist Party’s National Conference on Propaganda Work by Mao Zedong
• A Talk to the Editorial Staff of the Shansi-Suiyuan Daily by Mao Zedong
• How to be a Good Leader by Zhou Enlai
• The Mass Line by the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path)
• Mass Work by the Communist Party of the Philippines
• The Party and the Masses by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine