The english translation of Shashi Prakash’s 5o page essay describing the theoretical vicissitudes and importance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, originally published in India, has been edited and annotated by Toronto’s Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee. Prakash explains the historical and theoretical importance of the Maoist development of historical materialism as well as explaining the differences between “Marxism-Leninism-Maoism” and “Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.”