Anyone interested in reading and analyzing Quotations from Mao Zedong? I read it already a while ago, and I would like to read it again to understand it more. Post here if you're interested.

This is my first post in the Study Group forum so I'm not sure if this is allowed but if it isn't feel free to trash and I'll do it the proper way.

Of course!

Definitely.

It is a good idea. Though it may be hard to conduct, as we wont be able to exclude anarchists, Trots, post modernist and liberals who will want to interupt the discussion.

Maybe we could do something independent of revleft?

Well, i doubt they'll even participate in this study group, since the only ones that have posted till now are anti-revisionists.

I'm in. If people get seriously disruptive, we can always ask a mod to make them fuck off, and if that doesn't happen, do it somewhere else. The little nuggets of wisdom from the red booklet are always good.

invision boards allows you to create forums for free and very easily so we could do that but I don't think we'll need to go through the trouble. As Zeruzo pointed out no one who has posted here is a trot, revisionist, or anarchist.

When should we get started and how should we break down the reading? Should we do it Chapter by Chapter?

BTW, Here is a full online text for anyone who doesn't own and either doesn't want to buy it, prefers online texts, or can't find a book store that sells "The Little Red Book."

Quotations from Mao Zedong

I vote for quote by quote!
We have the time anyway.

i just finished it yesterday, i say we do it chapter for chapter

I like the quote by quote option.


If anyone is interested, there's two other versions of the Quotations (Little Red Book):

http version

http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/QCM66.html

pdf version

http://www.marx2mao.com/PDFs/QCM66.pdf

I vote quote by quote too. But what does that mean? We'll have a new thread for each quote? Perhaps someone with more "study group forum experience" should decide how to do this.

Well, someone posts the first quote here, and adds his comment, then we discuss it. Then when most people seem satisfied, the next one is posted.

Okay I'll start. The first quote is:


Nothing special about this. Just a 2 sentence summary of Marxist-Leninism. Not much to say about this in my opinion other than that for someone with little knowledge of Marxism-Leninism this is a basic.

i agree with LH, basic profile of their party theory

It's not a two sentence summary of Marxism-Leninism. It tells you absolutely nothing about Marxism-Leninism. It's more of a two sentence summary of the CCP.

Just my two (common) cents.

I concur. Good basic introduction to the first chapter, "The Communist Party." The Party is the leading organization of the working-class and peasant movement in practice, and the theory adopted is ML.

I'm laughing at you for being a shithead troll... <_<

About as much as you can say in two sentences.

I've read the red book, but I'll still join in.

Pay shit-disturbers like Leo no mind. I say just ignore anyone who invades this thread. Seriously, it's the only way to maintain the purpose.


I'm not quite a Maoist myself, but here is one of my favorite quotes:

"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war;but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun,it is necesary to take up the gun."

If the lower level is subordinate to the higher level, and the membership is subbordinate to the Central Committee then, the masses really don't make up the party, they are just under the partys ruling. If a minority is subordinate to the majority and cannot express their different views, and cannot act up how they choose they they are coerced into acepting the line of the Central Committee.
Unity shouldn't be about following the rules-- unity is about cameradery with others for the cause. (emphasis in bold by me)

Here in this longwinded quotation he just says that the imperialists will be defeated because they defeated the feudal lords, Mao only says their next in line to be defeated-- the only reason he says they will be is because they created the proletariat, he doesn't why the proletariat will defeat them, or why it wants to defeat them.

Their tactical thinking is built on that the imperialists will be defeated, though they are mighty now-- they will be defeated, it's very mechanistic.

This whole book which was designed to give people who knew nothing about Communism, give NOTHING to offer. There is no theoretical insight-- absolutely nothing.

The only thing great about this book is that Mao created a new insult "Bean-curd Tigers" what the hell is that!? When a bean-curd tiger roars, does it actually fart bean stench out of its mouth?

All of you who believe that there are theoretical insights in this book are bean-curd tigers, smelly tigers, fart tigers, hippy-tofu gas tigers; though you're living tigers, you're not living very well. You're living like shit tigers, you're not very fierce, you're like the Easter Bunny with plastic vampire fangs tigers.

El KABLAMO,

This is NOT the thread for that.

1) I don't think we're done with the first quote yet
2) That is not the next quote
3) That is not in Chapter 1

If you want, go start another thread. But don't do this here because the thread is already starting to get derailed.