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Mao Zedong

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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.


— Mao Zedong


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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.


— Mao Zedong


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Women hold up half the sky.


— Mao Zedong


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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.


— Mao Zedong


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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.


— Mao Zedong


#cannot #culture #defeat #enemy #without

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.


— Mao Zedong


#force #history #making #motive #people

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.


— Mao Zedong


#crush #enemy #hammer #love #use

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.


— Mao Zedong


#despise #enemy #him #seriously #strategically

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.


— Mao Zedong


#difficulties #lose #must #our #sight

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.


— Mao Zedong


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Did you know about Mao Zedong?

Coming across newly translated Marxist literature such as Thomas Kirkup's A History of Socialism Karl Kautsky's Karl Marx's Ökonomische Lehren and Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto he was further committed to communism. In October he returned to Shaoshan for his mother's funeral. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands perhaps millions periMao Zedongd in the violence of the Cultural Revolution.

Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan Hunan Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook in early life particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. In 1966 he initiated the Cultural Revolution a program to weed out counter-revolutionary elements in Chinese society which continued until his death. Maoists furthermore promote his role as a theorist statesman poet and visionary who has inspired revolutionary movements across the globe.

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