Is pic related worth the read? I wouldn't consider myself a maoist, but am interested. If not, what would you suggest?

is pic related worth the read? I wouldn't consider myself a maoist, but am interested. If not, what would you suggest?

My parents have it in the bathroom for toilet-reading. It's ok I guess, even if it's mostly just fancy sounding rhetoric. I mostly remember shit about paper-tigers (don't know if that's the correct english translation), and something about women being the best soldiers, because they're natural born killers (or some shit like that).

I bought a copy not too long ago and I like it. It's kind of a hodge podge of quotes and ideas rather than a unified guide of Mao's theory, but it cites the full speeches so if you see something interesting you can look up the full context.

I'm not really a Maoist myself so I can't really point to something else if you're looking for complete pieces of theory. Aside from Asian gorillas the only Maoist I know of is Unruhe.

My personal opinion is that I think it's worth it. It shouldn't be treated like a Bible or nothing, but I think it's an important book, if only for its historical relevance, though in my opinion there's some good stuff in there that could benefit any ready regardless of political current.

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this is actually one of the main reasons im interested in it - seems like it could be a lighter reading than other leftist theory

If that's what you're looking for then yeah, I'd recommend it. It's kind of the "Chairman Mao's Greatest Hits" of theory.

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If you're going to buy it, make sure you find a good version. I bought a cheap one from Amazon a few years back and it was full of spelling and grammar errors.

They're definitely /ourpeople/. I also inherited my copy of Malatesta's "Anarchy" from them.

Just read it if you're interested, it's pretty easy to understand

Damn Mao, thats an inspiring quote

I'm buying a cheap one off amazon rn..fuck..was your's the one translated by the "Communist Party of China"

No. Read the full things instead.
marxists.org

my autismo levels require i have a physical copy

Would someone mind explaining what Maoism actually refers to? Someone in another thread called me one recently (>>2048347
, ), but from a look at the Wikipedia page (probably terrible, I admit) they don't seem to have much at all in common with what I'm after. I'd figure Holla Forums would be more informed on it than Wikipedia.

It does not really matter if you agree with him or not. Worth reading just to understand him.

Maoism alteration to Marxism-Leninism can be broken down into five basic categories
-Maoist dialectics.
Permanent nature of contradictions, where progress goes in waves: from unity of contradictions, into dialectics of the opposites. This is, of course, would be too massive point
-New democracy
A form of government that incorporates communist class consciousness and Marxist ideology, while purposefully developing capitalism, due to lack of productive forces and technological conditions of socialism.
-Cultural Revolution.
Swiping away the reactionary elements of culture, that remain from the old society and accumulate due to capitalist economic base of the new one. This is the most controversial topic, due to a botched Cultural Revolution in China.
-Mass Line

Holy shit if that's true then the perfect analogy is Mao as Bob Marley, little red book as Greatest Hits on either CD or Vinyl, and leftists as every white college student.

When you put it that way Deng Xiaoping's policies and interpretation of socialism doesn't really sound like a betrayal of Mao.

t. Hoxha

thanks for the summary user. do you have any thoughts on Deng Xiaoping "combining socialist ideology with pragmatic market economy - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"? and do you have any thoughts on the current state of china? is there any hope for communism forming or will they continue to indulge in their mix of state capitalism/capitalism

Absolutely not. Imagine reading Marx or any other philosopher this way. One or two consecutive sentences ripped out of any context, then the next quote and so on.
Reading just about any random essay he wrote, and reading that in one go from start to finish. Do another if and when you feel like it.

This is the right idea. If you need an idea of what to read, marxists.org or Marx2Mao both have the selected writings. Find his major works there then search the internet for physical copies of the major works. I know there's one book with a number of his writings (On Contradiction, On Practice, Combat Liberalism, and some others) with an introduction from Zizek.

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