Club Jacobin

These stamps commemorate the May 7 cadre schools, when Party cadre and urban intellectuals were sent down to hardscrabble rural areas to learn from the lower and middle peasants.

Mao Zedong, “Oppose Book Worship”

Lower and Middle Peasants Love Chairman Mao the Most

Unified CPN-Maoist Vice-chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha today said the upcoming General Convention of his party would reorient its ideological course of achieving “socialism through new-democracy” (propounded by Chairman Mao in China) to achieving “socialism through capitalism”.

[…] “We have concluded it is not possible to achieve socialism via the model of new-democracy in the current national and global context.” He said as society was preferred capitalism‚ the party had decided to change its ideological course.

Ughhhhh.

Distributing seeds to the revolutionary peasants at the villages with the Maoist militia.

drdogballs:

monetizeyourcat:

empathies:

i still don’t understand dialectical i wish it would click already

dialectics is the idea of things (ideas in hegel, history in marx) are formed by opposing forces clashing and that clash defining a new, intermediate position

Dialectics for Kids gets linked whenever this is brought up so i guess i will be the one to do it this time

The Maoist idea of dialectics is somewhat different, with the emphasis on “one divides into two” and the idea of distinguishing antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions. There are some good texts here that start to dig into these differences.

(via drdogballs-deactivated20130330)

Sailing the seas depends on the helmsman

Life and growth depend on the sun

Rain and dewdrops nourish the crops

Making revolution depends on Mao Zedong Thought.

Fish can’t leave the water,

Nor melons leave the vine.

The revolutionary masses can’t do without the communist party.

Mao Zedong Thought is the sun that shines forever.

This video, featuring Chinese red cavalry soldiers engaged in horseback rifle battles after a nuclear blast, may seem funny or perhaps horrifying today. But we shouldn’t discount the morale boosting effect of images like this, in line with Mao’s teaching that imperialists and all reactionaries are paper tigers. One of the necessary steps in ending China’s century of humiliation was to rally the Chinese people for a common national project even when they were surrounded by foreign powers with unbeatable weapons and military might. Without the political line depicted in this video China might still be a weak and subjugated country dominated by foreign powers.

Lin Biao, Long Live the Victory of People’s War!

It’s worth a try at any rate.