Quote:
We must affirm anew the discipline of the Party, namely:
(1) the individual is subordinate to the organization;
(2) the minority is subordinate to the majority;
(3) the lower level is subordinate to the higher level; and
(4) the entire membership is subordinate to the Central Committee.
Whoever violates these articles of discipline disrupts Party unity.
"The Role of the Chinese Communist Party
in the National War" (October 1938),
If the lower level is subordinate to the higher level, and the membership is subbordinate to the Central Committee then, the masses really don't make up the party, they are just under the partys ruling. If a minority is subordinate to the majority and cannot express their different views, and cannot act up how they choose they they are coerced into acepting the line of the Central Committee.
Unity shouldn't be about following the rules-- unity is about cameradery with others for the cause. (emphasis in bold by me)
Quote:
Just as there is not a single thing in the world without a dual nature (this is the law of the unity of opposites), so imperialism and all reactionaries have a dual nature‹they are real tigers and paper tigers at the same time. In past history, before they won state power and for some time afterwards, the slave-owning class, the feudal landlord class and the bourgeoisie were vigorous, revolutionary and progressive; they were real tigers. But with the lapse of time, because their opposites‹the slave class, the peasant class and the proletariat‹grew in strength step by step, struggled against them more and more fiercely, these ruling classes changed step by step into the reverse, changed into reactionaries, changed into backward people, changed into paper tigers. And eventually they were overthrown, or will be overthrown, by the people. The reactionary, backward, decaying classes retained this dual nature even in their last life-and-death struggles against the people. On the one hand, they were real tigers; they devoured people, devoured people by the millions and tens of millions. The cause of the people's struggle went through a period of difficulties and hardships, and along the path there were many twists and turns. To destroy the rule of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism in China took the Chinese people more than a hundred years and cost them tens of millions of lives before the victory in 1949. Look! Were these not living tigers, iron tigers, real tigers? But in the end they changed into paper tigers, dead tigers, bean-curd tigers. These are historical facts. Have people not seen or heard about these facts? There have indeed been thousands and tens of thousands of them! Thousands and tens of thousands! Hence, imperialism and all reactionaries, looked at in essence, from a long-term point of view, from a strategic point of view, must be seen for what they are‹paper tigers. On this we should build our strategic thinking. On the other hand, they are also living tigers, iron tigers, real tigers which can devour people. On this we should build our tactical thinking.
Speech at the Wuchang Meeting of the Polit-
ical Bureau of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China (December 1, 1958)
Here in this longwinded quotation he just says that the imperialists will be defeated because they defeated the feudal lords, Mao only says their next in line to be defeated-- the only reason he says they will be is because they created the proletariat, he doesn't why the proletariat will defeat them, or why it wants to defeat them.
Their tactical thinking is built on that
the imperialists will be defeated, though they are mighty now-- they will be defeated, it's very mechanistic.
This whole book which was designed to give people who knew nothing about Communism, give NOTHING to offer. There is no theoretical insight-- absolutely nothing.
The only thing great about this book is that Mao created a new insult "Bean-curd Tigers" :lol: what the hell is that!? When a bean-curd tiger roars, does it actually fart bean stench out of its mouth?
All of you who believe that there are theoretical insights in this book are bean-curd tigers, smelly tigers, fart tigers, hippy-tofu gas tigers; though you're living tigers, you're not living very well. You're living like shit tigers, you're not very fierce, you're like the Easter Bunny with plastic vampire fangs tigers.