Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

/The Eastern Maoist Society


A View of the Man   May 24, 2001
Matt Meltzer (Radnor, PA)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful

There is really no reasy avenue through which one can quantify the life or achievements of Mao Zedong, the leader of China's communist revolution and dictator from 1949 until his death in 1976. Unlike his contemporaries, Chairman Mao possessed a deep passion and credence for the ideology behind the politics unlike Stalin or Hitler.

"Quotations from Chairman Mao" presents a snapshot and perspective of this complicated man's view of not only the dynamics of politics and economics, but of human thought and instinct. While it would be fallacious to characterize Chairman Mao as a great philospher of the modern age (a 20th century Karl Marx he was not), his insights are succinctly and poignantly expressed. Mao's gift for poetic license also pervades the work; had this man not been the galvanizing force behind a revolution, there is little doubt he would have been a poet or writer given his innate talent with the pen. Although the book is somewhat cyclical in content and at times redundant, it provides a priceless peek into the mind of the man that has undoubtedly altered the course of human history.

For any literary or political scholar surfing for a source to supplement a thesis or simply get handle on the cyclone of modern political thought, "Quotations from Chairman Mao" is a must have addition to the bookshelf.