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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 18h

Give full play to our style of fighting - courage in battle, no fear of sacrifice, no fear of fatigue, and continuous fighting (that is, fighting successive battles in a short time without rest).

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 20h

Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which democratic centralism should be put into practice. Only in this way can we really extend

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 22h

They must be revolutionaries who whole-heartedly serve the overwhelming majority of the people of China and the whole world, and must not be Iike Khrushchov who serves both the interests of the handful of members of the privileged bourgeois stratum in his own country and those of foreign

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imperialism will not last long because it always does evil things. It persists in grooMing and supporting reactionaries in all countries who are against the people, it has forcibly seized many colonies and semi-colonies and many military bases, and it threatens the peace with atomic war. Thus,

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many people seem to think that the use of the democratic method to resolve contradictions among the people is something new. Actually it is not. Marxists have always held that the cause of the proletariat must depend on the masses of the people and that Communists must use the democratic method of

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is necessary to maintain the system of cadre participation in collective productive labour. The cadres of our Party and state are ordinary workers and not overlords sitting on the backs of the people. By taking part in collective productive labour, the cadres maintain extensive, constant and

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Make trouble, fail, make trouble again, fail again . . . till their doom; that is the logic of the imperialists and all reactionaries the world over in dealing with the people's cause, and they will never go against this logic. This is a Marxist law. When we say "imperialism is ferocious", we mean

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If we tried to go on the offensive when the masses are not yet awakened, that would be adventurism. If we insisted on leading the masses to do anything against their will, we would certainly fail. If we did not advance when the masses demand advance, that would be Right opportunism.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Successors to the revolutionary cause of the proletariat come forward in mass struggles and are tempered in the great storms of revolution. It is essential to test and judge cadres and choose and train successors in the long course of mass struggle.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities -- these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Historically, all reactionary forces on the verge of extinction invariably conduct a last desperate struggle against the revolutionary forces, and some revolutionaries are apt to be deluded for a time by this phenomenon of outward strength but inner weakness failing to grasp the essential fact that

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Policy and tactics are the life of the Party; leading comrades at all levels must give them full attention and must never on any account be negligent.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is an arduous task to ensure a better life for the several hundred million people of China and to build our economically and culturally backward country into a prosperous and powerful one with a high level of culture. And it is precisely in order to be able to shoulder this task more competently

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

With the completion of agricultural co-operation, many co-operatives are finding themselves short of labour. It has become necessary to arouse the great mass of women who did not work in the fields before to take their place on the labour front. . . . China's women are a vast reserve of labour

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People all over the world are now discussing whether or not a third world war will break out. On this question, too, we must be mentally prepared and do some analysis. We stand firmly for peace and against war. But if the imperialists insist on unleashing another war, we should not be afraid of it.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To criticize the people's shortcomings is necessary, ... but in doing so we must truly take the stand of the people and speak out of whole-hearted eagerness to protect and educate them. To treat comrades like enemies is to go over to the stand of the enemy.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To indulge in irresponsible criticism in private instead of actively putting forward one's suggestions to the organization. To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards. To show no regard at all for the principles

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare -- he can learn through fighting in war. A revolutionary war is a mass

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities -- these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The basic ideological programme of the great proletarian Cultural Revolution is 'to combat selfishness and criticize revisionism.'

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

should so far as possible be permitted no breathing space.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Eight Points for Attention are as follows: (1) Speak politely. (2) Pay fairly for what you buy. (3) Return everything you borrow. (4) Pay for anything you damage. (5) Do not hit or swear at people. (6) Do not damage crops. (7) Do not take liberties with women. (8) Do not ill-treat

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly. This is a fifth type.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The theoretical basis guiding our thinking is Marxism- Leninism.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Because of their lack of political and social experience, quite a number of young people are unable to see the contrast between the old China and the new, and it is not easy for them thoroughly to comprehend the hardships our people went through in the struggle to free themselves from the

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Moreover, various contributory international factors are required.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Often, correct knowledge can be arrived at only after many repetitions of the process leading from matter to consciousness and then back to matter, that is, leading from practice to knowledge and then back to practice. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge, the dialectical materialist theory of

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

June 15, 1976. Quoted in Mao: The Real Story (2012) by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We should always use our brains and think everything over carefully. A common saying goes, "Knit your brows and you will hit upon a stratagem." In other words, much thinking yields wisdom. In order to get rid of the blindness which exists to a serious extent in our Party, we must encourage our

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Marxist philosophy holds that the law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe. This law operates universally, whether in the natural world, in human society, or in man's thinking. Between the opposites in a contradiction there is at once unity and struggle, and it is this

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

First, give them guidance. This means allowing them a free hand in their work so that they have the courage to assume responsibility and, at the same time, giving them timely instructions so that, guided by the Party's political line, they are able to make full use of their initiative.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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 necessary to take up the gun.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As we used to say, the rectification movement is "a widespread movement of Marxist education". Rectification means the whole Party studying Marxism through criticism and self-criticism. We can certainly learn more about Marxism in the course of the rectification movement.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In seeking victory, those who direct a war cannot overstep the limitations imposed by the objective conditions; within these limitations, however, they can and must play a dynamic role in striving for victory. The stage of action for commanders in a war must be built upon objective possibilities,

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The imperialists and their running dogs, the Chinese reactionaries, will not resign themselves to defeat in this land of China. They will continue to gang up against the Chinese people in every possible way. For example, they will smuggle their agents into China to sow dissension and make trouble.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our congress is being held in the following circumstances. A new situation has emerged after nearly eight years of resolute, heroic and indomitable struggle waged by the Chinese people with countless sacrifices and amid untold hardships against the Japanese aggressors; in the world as a whole,

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Talk at an Enlarged Central Work Conference (30 January 1962)

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to co-exist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent any possible war, but under no circumstances should we harbour any unrealistic notions about them.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Between war and peace, the possibility of peace is greater. Currently the possibility of peace is greater than in the past. The strength of the socialist camp is greater than the past and the possibility of peace is greater than at the time of World War II. The Soviet Union is powerful and the

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Another point that should be mentioned in connection with inner-Party criticism is that some comrades ignore the major issues and confine their attention to minor points when they make their criticism. They do not understand that the main task of criticism is to point out political and

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

anything and everything new. Such people are always passive, always fail to move forward at the critical moment, and always have to be given a shove in the back before they move a step.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The most fundamental method of work which all Communists must firmly bear in mind is to determine our working policies according to actual conditions. When we study the causes of the mistakes we have made, we find that they all arose because we departed from the actual situation at a given time and

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

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Mao Zedong (毛泽东) @mzdn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Most arduous tasks lie ahead of us in the great work of construction. Although there are over 10 million members in our Party, they still constitute a very small minority of the country's population. In government departments and public organizations and enterprises much work has to be done by

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