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Oppose Book Worship (Chinese: 反对本本主义) is a 1930 essay written by Mao Zedong which criticizes dogmatism in the form of excessive reliance on classical Marxist works or higher leadership bodies.
Mao states that guerrilla warfare is "a powerful special weapon with which we resist the Japanese and without which we cannot defeat them." Mao explains how guerrilla warfare can only succeed if employed by revolutionaries because it is a political and military style. According to Mao, guerrilla warfare is a way for the Chinese to expel an ...
A fifth volume, which included the works of Chairman Mao from 1949 to 1957, was released during the leadership of Hua Guofeng, but subsequently withdrawn from circulation for its perceived ideological errors. [1] [2] There has never been an official "Complete Works of Mao Zedong" collecting all his known publications. [3]
The book summarizes Mao's transition from a rebel against the autocratic Kuomintang government to the totalitarian dictator over the People's Republic of China. Chang and Halliday heavily cover Mao's role in the planning and the execution of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. They open the book saying "Mao Tse-tung, who for ...
Mao is the attributed author of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, known in the West as the "Little Red Book" and in Cultural Revolution China as the "Red Treasure Book" (紅寶書). First published in January 1964, this is a collection of short extracts from his many speeches and articles (most found in the Selected Works), edited by Lin ...
On Contradiction, along with Mao's text On Practice, elevated Mao's reputation as a Marxist theoretician. [ 12 ] : 37 It became a foundational text of Mao Zedong Thought . [ 4 ] : 9 After Mao was celebrated in the Eastern Bloc following China's intervention in the Korean War , both texts became widely read in the USSR.
Mao Zedong: 1937 Non-fiction The A to Z of the Soviet Union: Alex Page 1946 Non-fiction Aspects of China's Anti-Japanese Struggle: Mao Zedong 1948 Non-fiction The Case for Communism: William Gallacher: 1949 Non-fiction Twilight of World Capitalism: William Z. Foster: 1949 Non-fiction Concerning Marxism in Linguistics: Joseph Stalin 1950 Non-fiction
In a closing speech entitled "The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains" at the 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party on June 11, 1945, Mao Zedong recounted the story, re-interpreting it as a call for collective action. Today, two big mountains lie like a dead weight on the Chinese people. One is imperialism, the other is feudalism.