Quotations from Mao

[Comrade of Cuba]

I still read "Quotations from chairman Mao Tsetung"(little red book) , but do you? In my opinion It's still a masterwork about the communist way of life. But a lot of the members of the PVDA (belgian Marxist party) that I know don't read it. And its very hard to get nowadays. So my question do you read it? And do you always have it with you, like me?

[Saint-Just]

I have read it twice, and I agree it is very important. It was one of the first books in which I was introduced to modern Marxism-Leninism.

[Bolshevika]

For me the same CM, it was the first book on Marxism that I actually fully comprehended. The book of Comrade Chairman Mao is almost sacred to me, although the cover is falling off (it's fairly old, I got it at a second hand bookstore in Manhatten). It's a very good read for beginners because it is written in simple text (it was written for peasants to understand Marxist theory better) and a very interesting read.

[Comrade Ceausescu]

i have read a good part of it butb I can't find a copy of it to buy. :(

[Comrade of Cuba]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2003, 06:09 PM
i have read a good part of it butb I can't find a copy of it to buy. :(
I also had problems with findeing it. I found a copy in my grandparenths house when they moved. And they didn't need it anymore.(I have a very communist/socialist family)

[Comrade of Cuba]

I read it the first time when I was about 12 years. And then I even could understrand most of it. And I still take it with me everywhere I go. :hammer:

[RosaRL]

I absolutely love 'quotations' however that is just a starting point for investigating what Mao had to say - as well as the vast experience gained by the international proletariat. It doesn't start or end there.

For example there is another book of quotations but not quotations of Mao. It's called 'Bullets' and is a book of quotations from Bob Avakian - Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party - USA. It's quite interesting and also makes for a very good introduction. That book had a huge impact on me!

[Alejandro C]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2003, 12:09 PM
i have read a good part of it butb I can't find a copy of it to buy. :(
www.sherrymama.com has lots of cool mao stuff. i ordered 5 lighters, a hat, and a red book. its a hongkong shop, and all the stuff is original. you can get an original red book but it 35 (us), though they have new printings for only 5 dollars. check out the hats though, original red army. and the lighters with mao on them, they sing red easter when you open it up and comes in a case with a cigarette holder. they just recently partnered with another small shop and will very soon be able to take american credit cards.

[Comrade Ceausescu]

thanks comrade!your kindness will not be forgotten!

[SonofRage]

I'm not a fan of Mao at all, but I'd like to take a look at it.

[peaccenicked]

here is a version.
http://www.mzdthought.com/english/Quotations.htm
remember to press press cancel otherwise your computer will be installed with chinese characters.

[Andrei Kuznetsov]

I love Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Bullets by Bob Avakian; they're great lil reference works to study and carry in your pocket or backpack. Get them if you can- Avakian is the best motherfuckin' political analyst out there at the moment- I'd rank him above Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn any day.

[Comrade Marcel]

I don't leave home without it.

As for getting a copy -one that is original - it can be very exspensive. I paid like $20 CAD for mine, it had a stamp on it from the Library in China someone stole it from. :D

If you live in a city with a China-Town, check in some of the gift shops. You can also find Mao ornaments, statues, framed portriates, pins and other stuff. I'm in Toronto, and we have 3 China-Towns here. I get lots of old Chinese people coming up to me on the street smiling, because I always were a Mao pin.

You can also order copies of the Red book for 12 US from the Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru: http://www.csrp.org/csrpmat.htm

[Fidel Castro]

A Friend of mine brought me back an English version when he visited China. I must admit I have never read it, but this post has persuaded me to do so soon.

[Soviet power supreme]

These sentences I always remeber from the book.

The Communist Party does not fear criticism because we are Marxists, the truth is on our side, and the basic masses, the workers and peasants, are on our side

Without a people's army the people have nothing

[ComradeRed]

But isn't Maoism a failure in the terms of communism. I mean look @ it's requirements:

Industrial Revolution not required
Agrarian pre-imperialist state to rebel in

Then look at Marxism

Industrial Revolution
Semi-Imperialistic State to rebel in
Oppression of the masses

:o look at teh differences. Marxism works because the masses are already industrialized, maoism fails because when the industrial revolution comes, so does imperialism, hand-in-hand, as does oppression.

[JonP]

This christmas my uncle suprised me by showing me his copy of it, which he got years and years ago by writing to the chinese embasay. I read a good part of it and it was great, as well as simple to understand.

He said i could borrow it, but i could see he wasnt to keen its like a prized possesion of his :D

So now im looking for my own copy.

[Mano Dayak]

My father's got the little red book, I guess I'll ask him to borrow it to me. I've never read anything written by Mao (to be honest, I've only started reading Marx's manifesto a few days ago) and, just for general culture, I think everyone situated a bit left from the centre should read it.
By the way, where can you buy it (I'm afraid my dad would like to have his back after I've read it)...?

[JonP]

I got mine off e-bay, they had a few original copys last time i checked.