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Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung | 
 enlarge | Author: Mao Tse-tung
Publisher: China Books Periodicals Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 219864
Media: Vinyl Bound
Pages: 311
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4.7 x 3.7 x 0.7
ISBN: 083512388X
Dewey Decimal Number: 951.05092
EAN: 9780835123884
ASIN: 083512388X
Publication Date: May 1990
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Comrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively, and has brought it to a higher and completely new stage. p Mao Tse-tung's thought is Marxism-Leninism of the era in which imperialism is heading for total collapse and socialism is advancing to world-wide victory. It is a powerful ideological weapon for opposing imperialism and for opposing revisionism and dogmatism. Mao Tse-tung's thought is the guiding principle for all the work of the Party, the army and the country. p Therefore, the most fundamental task in our Party's political and ideological work is at all times to hold high the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, to arm the minds of the people throughout the country with it and to persist in using it to command every field of activity. The broad masses of the workers, peasants and soldiers and the broad ranks of the revolutionary cadres and the intellectuals should really master Mao Tse-tung's thought; they should all study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings, act according to his instructions and be his good fighters. p In studying the works of Chairman Mao, one should have specific problems in mind, study and apply his works in a creative way, combine study with application, first study what must be urgently applied so as to get quick results, and strive hard to apply what one is studying. In order really to master Mao Tse-tung's thought, it is essential to study many of Chairman Mao's basic concepts over and over again, and it is best to memorize important statements and study and apply them repeatedly. The newspapers should regularly carry quotations from Chairman Mao relevant to current issues for readers to study and apply. p The experience of the broad masses in their creative study and application of Chairman Mao's works in the last few years has proved that to study selected quotations from Chairman Mao with specific problems in mind is a good way to learn Mao Tse-tung's thought, a method conducive to quick results. p We have compiled Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung in order to help the broad masses learn Mao Tse-tung's thought more effectively. In organizing their study, units should select passages that are relevant to the situation, their tasks, the current thinking of their personnel, and the state of their work. p In our great motherland, a new era is emerging in which the workers, peasants and soldiers are grasping Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought. Once Mao Tse-tung's thought is grasped by the broad masses, it becomes an inexhaustible source of strength and a spiritual atom bomb of infinite power. The large-scale publication of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a vital measure for enabling the broad masses to grasp Mao Tse-tung's thought and for promoting the revolutionization of our people's thinking. It is our hope that all comrades will learn earnestly and diligently, bring about a new nation-wide high tide in the creative study and application of Chairman Mao's works, and, under the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, strive to build our country into a great socialist state with modern agriculture, modern industry, modern science and culture and modern national defence!
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 Interesting insight into the man and the world in his time May 23, 2008
C. Bowling (VA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Quotations is a very interesting take on a world consumed by revolution in the 20th century. While his writings on guerrilla warfare are still read even today by organizations such as the US Navy, his political insights are much less known. While some banter and scream about loss of life most through starvation which they do not understand, they fail to see the evolution of China, from a backwards country being over run by foreign nations, to quite possibly the next super power, all under Mao Zedong. This contains many of his most famous essays and speeches like "On contridiction". A worthy read for anyone interested in socialist politics, or even the state of the world in Mao's era.
 Mao The Dumb says: December 30, 2007
Amazon's Lowest Rated Reviewer (Thailand)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Mao TheDumb says: br / br /Dui di-ren ren-ci jiu shi dui ren-min can-ren. That translates to "Showing mercy to class enemies is showing cruelty to the people." This quote was used as Red Guards bashed and beat the bones of old men, bullied their teachers. When someone tried to defend the weak, the Red Guards would quote Mao, and continue beating, sometimes to death, their 'class enemies'. br / br /The Red Guards were the Taliban of China. Mao was their leader. br / br /
 Dogmatism is bad; very bad July 8, 2007
Anton Batey (Detroit, MI USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Like almost any politician, there are things I admire about them. Mao implemented measures that were preferable to that of Chiang Kai-shek, but nevertheless, if Mao ever stood trial, he would deserve nothing short of torture...then shot. br / br /This book is filled with Mao quotes; some good, but most dull. What's interesting about the book isn't its content, but the fact that this book was distributed, and required remembrance among many students, as if it were a religious manuscript - which it essentially became. The Little Red Book became, yes, equivalent to a religious textbook whose doctrines became responsible for the deaths of millions of dissidents. This is an example of why dogmatism of any kind is horrible. It was not his "Marxist" belief that killed people, as any "title" can be attached to any dogmatic person out to attain political power; it was just THAT which killed people - his aim for political power. "Communism" just happened to be the leading alternative to what Chiang Kai-shek represented, which was state capitalism, or "mercantilism" (the allowance of private property within a governmental framework). Titles like "communist", "socialist", "capitalist", "anarchist", "Marxist" have been entirely evacuated of any essence, as China under Mao considered itself "socialist", yet was a dictatorship, while Britain calls itself "socialist" too, and there's far more political freedom. br / br /So read this book if you're having a difficult time sleeping, or interested in knowing why Mao disregards personal freedom and subjects them to the Chinese state. br / br / br /Anton Batey br /Anton_Batey@yahoo.com
Review of the Little Red Book - Quotations from Chairman Mao June 12, 2007
Kristine Fields (Germany)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a Whacko!!! Great insight into the mindset from this time period, though. If you're a history buff like me, you'll appreciate this book and it's relevance to how it shaped China's people and policies. Those policies even have some implications into today's China!!!
The most re(a)d book of the past century? May 17, 2007
Chris Miller (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Well, maybe not the most read (although still read very much), but probably the most red. Puns aside, this book is a very important read for us today. I think the best way to show this is to make the kind of list that Mao likes to. br /1. It contains the central doctrine of a superpower. br /2. It is written by a great conqueror and a successful military and civic dictator. br /3. It teaches us practicable and useful rules for working with or against others. br /4. It indoctrinates the reader with noble ideals. br /5. It teaches us about modern Chinese thought and culture. br /6. It helps us understand communism: a very influential movement in history. br /7. It contains a strong model of rhetoric, proven effective! br /I am not a communist, and I am strongly opposed to communism, but by looking past the communism I was able to get a lot of knowledge and wisdom out of this book about other things, such as concepts of social motivation and organization, and also of strategy, and of course a persuasive rhetorical model. Mao was very conversant with the Chinese classics such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lao Tzu, Confucius and the Art of War. His book of quotations is clearly modelled on the pithy, aphoristic writings of the classical Chinese philosophers and strategists. In a guarded way, I feel that Mao has written a book of that tradition and of that status. It is clearly styled after the great Chinese classics and is even more relevant than them for us today who are interested in these classics since Mao actually put his philosophies and principles to the test on a grand scale and was successful, and he is closer to us in time than they are. Very few of us have accomplished anything like what he did, so, a full study of the ethics of it aside, there is a huge amount of useful wisdom and learning contained between the covers of this book; and not only Machiavellian!
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