Joshua Moufawad-Paul is a Canadian academic and writer from

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. He is a professor of philosophy at

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. A

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

philosopher, Moufawad-Paul has written several works on the topic and regularly posts on his blog ''M-L-M Mayhem'' which focuses on his conception of the philosophy of Maoism. In 2020, Moufawad-Paul received media attention when he started a petition in response to publisher Rowman & Littlefield's planned "Problems in Anti-Colonialism" series. The petition urged the publisher to withdraw Bruce Gilley's book ''The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns’ Epic Defense of the British Empire'', claiming the book endorsed a "white nationalist perspective" and that the publisher was giving academic credibility to "settler-colonial propaganda". Gilley had earlier written a controversial essay entitled ''The Case for Colonialism''. While some critics accused Moufawad-Paul of censorship and "cancel culture", the publisher ultimately scrapped the series, and Gilley's own book was published by

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instead.

Publications

* ''The Communist Necessity'' (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2014) * ''

Continuity and Rupture ''Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain'' is a 2016 book written by J. Moufawad-Paul. The book provides a philosophical analysis of the theoretical foundation of the Marxist school of thought developed by Chinese revoluti ...

'' (Winchester:

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, 2016) * ''Austerity Apparatus'' (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2017) * ''Methods Devour Themselves'' (with

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) (Winchester:

, 2018) * ''Demarcation and Demystification'' (Winchester:

, 2019) * ''Critique of Maoist Reason'' (Paris: Foreign Languages Press, 2020) * ''Politics In Command: A Taxonomy of Economism'' (Paris: Foreign Languages Press, 2022)

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* Canadian political philosophers 21st-century Canadian philosophers Living people Canadian Marxist writers Marxist theorists Maoist theorists Year of birth missing (living people) York University alumni {{philosopher-stub