Atsumari

Again, thank you for the insight.

Do you still consider yourself a Marxist? (just curious since you put your title as "Asian Nationalist")

It really is a damn shame I think - Maoism, to me, has a lot of theoretical and philosophical promise lurking beneath the deformed Stalinist face. I still carry a book of "Quotations from Mao Tse-tung" around with me today, because the quotations themselves are not reactionary; they are romantic and inspirational, or deeply philosophical (my favourite being "Women hold up half the sky"). The reason I asked you is because I was considering Maoism again, thinking I could try to steer clear of the cultish Jim Jonesian submissiveness and religious dogmatism, but alas it's probably best to stay away; thank you for the advice... it's just a sad fact that the reality of Maoist movements do not correlate with some of the ingeniousness of the theory. I don't even think Mao would be in favour of all the weird sects of "Maoism" out there today, and in some ways I think that gives me the ability to keep on seeing him as an inspiration in the same vein as Che or Rosa.

I heard you used to be a Maoist. What made you stop being one, if you don't mind me asking?