AvanteRedGarde
28th December 2009, 21:46
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Three great revolutionaries were born in December.
Stalin was born on December 21st, 1879. Stalin is remembered for his great accomplishment of leading the Soviet Union through socialist construction. He is also remembered for making the hard decisions that led to the defeat of the Nazis. Had it not been for Stalin’s leadership, the Nazi tanks would have rolled to the Pacific Ocean.
The exploited and oppressed people today look to the Soviet Union in its glory days as a model of economic development and modernization that did not rely, as the imperialists did, on the plunder and exploitation of other countries. At the onset of the Soviet revolution, their country was one of the most backward in Europe. It was through the leadership of Lenin, but especially Stalin, that by the end of World War 2, the Soviet Union was able to challenge the Western imperialists on a global scale.
Mao was born on December 26th, 1893. Mao described the oppression of the Chinese people as follows:
“Today, two big mountains lie like a dead weight on the Chinese people. One is imperialism, the other is feudalism. The Chinese Communist Party has long made up its mind to dig them up. We must persevere and work unceasingly, and we, too, will touch God’s heart. Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people. If they stand up and dig together with us, why can’t these two mountains be cleared away?”
It was under Mao’s leadership that a quarter of the world’s population stood up, threw off the chains of imperialism, feudalism and comprador capitalism, and sought to create a world without oppression. A quarter of the world’s females were liberated from some of the worst forms of patriarchal oppression. A quarter of humanity sought to radically transform the world, to end oppression once and for all, to embark on the road to communism. It was Mao who initiated the Cultural Revolution to continue the forward motion of the revolution. Although Mao made errors, we recognize that Mao Zedong was, in many respects, the greatest revolutionary leader of all time.
Lin Biao was born on December 5th, 1907. Lin Biao is known as the greatest of China’s revolutionary marshals. Lin Biao was a key military and political leader.
Lin Biao was a strong proponent of egalitarianism in all spheres of life. It was under Lin Biao’s leadership that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army abolished outward sign of rank. The egalitarianism of the People’s Liberation Army became a model for all of society during the Cultural Revolution. Lin Biao and Chen Boda, before they fell, were big proponents of increasing collectivization of the economy during the Cultural Revolution. It was Lin Biao who first published Quotations by Chairman Mao (“the little red book”), in order to put Maoism in a more accessible form for China’s masses. It was first published for the People’s Liberation Army, later it was utilized by all of Chinese society for making revolution. Many of Lin Biao’s reforms of the People’s Liberation Army that began in 1959 were adopted by the Cultural Revolutionaries and applied to all of society. For example, Lin Biao was the first to raise the slogan “Put politics in command!,” a slogan that was later adopted by the Cultural Revolution.
Lin Biao was the first to declare that Mao’s contributions constituted a new, higher stage of Marxism. Lin Biao, along with Chen Boda, did the most to promote Maoism as a system and to raise up Maoism as Maoism.
Perhaps Lin Biao’s greatest contribution is his characterization of the world revolution as a global people’s war where the oppressed and exploited peoples of the global countryside are set against the oppressor and exploiter populations of the global city. Lin Biao’s outlook correctly implies that the peoples of the First World are not friends of the world revolution. From a Marxist point of view, the peoples of the First World are to be written off in the main. Thus Lin Biao’s work foreshadows the global class analysis and other breakthroughs of Maoism-Third Worldism.
Let’s remember the contributions of these and all great revolutionaries this month.
Three great revolutionaries were born in December.
Stalin was born on December 21st, 1879. Stalin is remembered for his great accomplishment of leading the Soviet Union through socialist construction. He is also remembered for making the hard decisions that led to the defeat of the Nazis. Had it not been for Stalin’s leadership, the Nazi tanks would have rolled to the Pacific Ocean.
The exploited and oppressed people today look to the Soviet Union in its glory days as a model of economic development and modernization that did not rely, as the imperialists did, on the plunder and exploitation of other countries. At the onset of the Soviet revolution, their country was one of the most backward in Europe. It was through the leadership of Lenin, but especially Stalin, that by the end of World War 2, the Soviet Union was able to challenge the Western imperialists on a global scale.
Mao was born on December 26th, 1893. Mao described the oppression of the Chinese people as follows:
“Today, two big mountains lie like a dead weight on the Chinese people. One is imperialism, the other is feudalism. The Chinese Communist Party has long made up its mind to dig them up. We must persevere and work unceasingly, and we, too, will touch God’s heart. Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people. If they stand up and dig together with us, why can’t these two mountains be cleared away?”
It was under Mao’s leadership that a quarter of the world’s population stood up, threw off the chains of imperialism, feudalism and comprador capitalism, and sought to create a world without oppression. A quarter of the world’s females were liberated from some of the worst forms of patriarchal oppression. A quarter of humanity sought to radically transform the world, to end oppression once and for all, to embark on the road to communism. It was Mao who initiated the Cultural Revolution to continue the forward motion of the revolution. Although Mao made errors, we recognize that Mao Zedong was, in many respects, the greatest revolutionary leader of all time.
Lin Biao was born on December 5th, 1907. Lin Biao is known as the greatest of China’s revolutionary marshals. Lin Biao was a key military and political leader.
Lin Biao was a strong proponent of egalitarianism in all spheres of life. It was under Lin Biao’s leadership that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army abolished outward sign of rank. The egalitarianism of the People’s Liberation Army became a model for all of society during the Cultural Revolution. Lin Biao and Chen Boda, before they fell, were big proponents of increasing collectivization of the economy during the Cultural Revolution. It was Lin Biao who first published Quotations by Chairman Mao (“the little red book”), in order to put Maoism in a more accessible form for China’s masses. It was first published for the People’s Liberation Army, later it was utilized by all of Chinese society for making revolution. Many of Lin Biao’s reforms of the People’s Liberation Army that began in 1959 were adopted by the Cultural Revolutionaries and applied to all of society. For example, Lin Biao was the first to raise the slogan “Put politics in command!,” a slogan that was later adopted by the Cultural Revolution.
Lin Biao was the first to declare that Mao’s contributions constituted a new, higher stage of Marxism. Lin Biao, along with Chen Boda, did the most to promote Maoism as a system and to raise up Maoism as Maoism.
Perhaps Lin Biao’s greatest contribution is his characterization of the world revolution as a global people’s war where the oppressed and exploited peoples of the global countryside are set against the oppressor and exploiter populations of the global city. Lin Biao’s outlook correctly implies that the peoples of the First World are not friends of the world revolution. From a Marxist point of view, the peoples of the First World are to be written off in the main. Thus Lin Biao’s work foreshadows the global class analysis and other breakthroughs of Maoism-Third Worldism.
Let’s remember the contributions of these and all great revolutionaries this month.