#mao Zedong

[mpaglamas]

“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.”

Mao Tse-Tung

[radiofreederry]

happy birthday, Mao Zedong! (December 26, 1893)

One of the 20th century's most influential figures, Mao Zedong was born in Hunan province to a wealthy farmer. Mao's political education began by reading the works of liberal reformer Zheng Guanying and later joined the rebellion against the Qing. Mao began associating with Chinese Marxist Li Dazhao, and soon came to embrace Marxism himself. He became an early member of the Communist Party of China and joined it in taking up arms in the name of revolution and helping to organize the Chinese Red Army. Over the course of the long Chinese Civil War, Mao's theoretical acumen, organizational skill, and tactical intelligence gained him respect and, ultimately, leadership of the party. He would lead the communists to victory against both the invading Japanese and the conservative republicans, proclaiming the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Mao set to work modernizing China and laying the foundations for socialism, instituting land reform and an industrial program while politically transforming Chinese society and suppressing reaction and liberalism. Through his leadership, China was transformed from a still semi-feudal state into a world power. Mao provided a number of contributions to Marxist theory, and his ideas are variously interpreted through such tendencies as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Mao Zedong Thought. He died in 1976.

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

[safije]

A soldier in the Al Alqsa Martyr's Brigades holds a picture of China's leader Mao Zedong.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

'Long Live the Red Terror!' (1966)

Wuhan Workers Rebel General Headquarters, People's Republic of China

Via GPCR Podcast

[asiaphotostudio]

Shanghai, 2000 Shanghai, China. 中国 上海市 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I had dinner with general Mao and all he wanted to talk about was crochet.

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

[fharysa]

La Chinoise - 1967

[lago-morpha]

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency. Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational liberalism. 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 well--they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work. Liberalism is a manifestation of opportunism and conflicts fundamentally with Marxism. It is negative and objectively has the effect of helping the enemy; that is why the enemy welcomes its preservation in our midst. Such being its nature, there should be no place for it in the ranks of the revolution. We must use Marxism, which is positive in spirit, to overcome liberalism, which is negative. A Communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a Communist. All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.

Combat Liberalism - Mao Zedong (1937)

[mykeyboardistryingtokillme]

Live in isometric fear, our grids and machinations will one day become alive!

ignore stretched out mao

[profesor-javaloyes]

China y el culto a la personalidad: Mao-rilyn

[revolutionary-marxism]

Massive crowds gathered in Shaoshan, Hunan, to celebrate the 130th birthday of Chinese Revolutionary Mao Zedong, with many younger attendees shouting slogans dating back to the Cultural Revolution such as "No crime in revolution!," "To rebel is justified!," "Down with capitalism, revisionism, and imperialism!," "Long Live Chairman Mao!" and singing, "The East is Red."

[safije]

Kurban Tulum (قۇربان تۇلۇم) (1883-1975) an Uyghur peasant who worked as a seasonal labourer for Uyghur landlords. During the land reforms of 1952, Kurban received land and various other properties. He is said to have visited Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang, by riding a donkey, to show his appreciation for the People's Liberation Army.

The government of the People's Republic of China promotes him as a symbol of unity between the Uyghurs and Han Chinese. A song named "Where Are You Going, Uncle Kurban?" (库尔班大叔您去哪儿?) and a film titled Uncle Kurban Visits Beijing (库尔班大叔上北京) were produced in 2002. Monuments of Kurban's handshake with Mao stand in the town centres of Keriya and Hotan (Tuanjie Square).

[itty-clover]

The Congolese struggle is vital to the global revolutionary movement and the masses in the Congo should be supported vigorously by any means available. We should never break solidarity with Congolese workers and slaves and all other exploited classes. All efforts to imperialize the Congo or continue the genocide there must be emphatically opposed. Any organization that stands for the rights of the marginalized, the workers, and human rights needs to stand in solidarity with the Congolese masses, and the ongoing attempt to wipe out this people and plunder their resources must be struggled against with all available power the workers of the world have. Solidarity with the Congolese masses! Death to the imperialists! Liberation to all peoples!

[yesmanmdfnv]

Cyn has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and has possibly partaken in the cultural revolution

[atheostic]

It always makes me laugh/irritates me when theists be like “Atheism is bad because Stalin//Mao was atheist. uwu”.

The fact that they might have been atheist and did something bad doesn’t mean they did it “in the name of atheism”.