I'm in NYC looking to get to Boston. My bus options are either Chicago or Los Angeles. I'd rather walk, thanks. Or maybe look for an alternative mode of transportation.

    • Mog_Pharou [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      "It seems that right up to the present quite a few have regarded Marxism-Leninism as a ready made panacea: Once you have it, you can cure all your ills with little effort. This is a type of childish blindness and we must start a movement to enlighten these people. Those who regard Marxism-Leninism as religious dogma show this type of blind ignorance. We must tell then openly, “Your dogma is of no use,” or to use an impolite formulation, “Your dogma is less useful than shit.” We see that dog shit can fertilize the fields and man’s can feed the dog. And dogmas? They can’t fertilize the fields, nor can they feed a dog. Of what use are they?" (Mao Tse-tung, Feb., 1, 1942 in Stuart Schram, The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung).

      lmao

        • FUCKTHEPAINTUP [any]
          6·
          4 years ago

          Mao meant “fuck tankies”: leftism is for heterodox rebels / real people, and you always have to be willing to throw your own books in the ocean if it allows you to get through to people

          • Superduperthx [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Stalin is probably regarded as the most tanky of the tankies(though I guess not technically related to the event that created the name) and Mao was a huge fan of him. So I don't even know why you would use such a term for Mao, as Mao was quite fond of Stalin.

            • FUCKTHEPAINTUP [any]
              3·
              4 years ago

              Stalin and the people who worship him have diverged considerably!

              Is it possible that revisionists are attempting to appropriate “Stalin” as part of a Western Eurocentric psyop? Trying to trick people into maybe a broken, counter-revolutionary and reactionary fake “communism”?

              Of course Mao loves Comrade Stalin. So do the Maoists. So do we all.

              Hi from the Red Guard / supertankies ;)

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Honestly, Mao's red book (which got slightly editorialize, but was often from Mao's tongue) is one of the most influential and memetic texts of the last 200 years. It coined so many phrases which would act like modern memes, shit- and hornyposting, e.g. the paper tiger.