• CleverOleg [he/him]
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    23 days ago

    When Mao was right - which was most of the time - he was right.

    But when he wrong… well…

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      23 days ago

      This is a lack of cultural exposure tbh, I think he just geniunely didn't understand how bad American society really is.

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        23 days ago

        he also thought that the soviet union was the most imperialist force, on the same earth on which the usa also resided so... shrug-outta-hecks

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      23 days ago

      He understood extractive imperialism perfectly but not settler colonialism. What he did understand of it he got from the wildly different experience of French African settler colonialism.

      It's like that difference between the apartheid and the genocidal state that's come up recently.

      An apartheid state wants the oppressed groups to do all the work. A genocidal state just wants them gone.

      The US is both, genocidal to First Nations, apartheid to non whites.

  • FunkYankkkees [they/them, pup/pup's]
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    23 days ago

    Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

    Comrade Mao - 1930

    Oof

  • JillOfAllTrades [she/her]
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    23 days ago

    I think about this quote a lot with regard to the hexbear-type thing of trying to make this hybrid of socialism (i.e economic reform) and american identity politics. Like trying to mix Maoism with this "KKKracka lol" stuff

    It's not just this one quote either. A core idea of Maoism is to unite people along class lines only. See also On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People.

    • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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      23 days ago

      Its not a hexbear type thing, the amerikkka stuff comes from the black power movement in the 1960s of which many some (like the black panthers) were influenced by Mao's teachings, thats the origin of the syntesis, not from some site made from a banned subreddit.

      • sweet_pecan [love/loves, they/them]M
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        23 days ago

        theres no reason to assume amerikkka has any connection to Maoists specify. last i checked the earliest source was from a magazine called black socialist world not specifically maoist. so like I cant believe I have to say this but no not all black people are maoist or were influenced by Maoism you cannot assume that to defend your point about how you hate all white people and somehow that HAS to fit into your political ideology. please be serious its aave you people (hexbears) need to stop with this misinfo.

        edit to be clear go off on white people, just dont spread misinfo about aave while you do it! also im sorry but this is a basic tenet of maoism. if you disagree with this is think you just dont like maoism, and thats ok!

        • JillOfAllTrades [she/her]
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          23 days ago

          It's hard for americans to shake essentialist views about race and come to a Marxist understanding –

          • Their conservatives have essentiallist racist views

          • The liberal 白左 aren't interested in coming to a correct view – "Our dogmatists are lazy-bones" – they're interested in showing off how good a person they are by howling idealist noises on social media

          Both their propaganda mills are pushing them to divide the working class based on race; getting to a correct, structuralist understanding of race is hard.

          Also Americans are insular and can't understand that the world ≠ America

          Mao is definitely the best path out: the Little Red Book, the Mass Line, On The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      23 days ago

      Hard pill to swallow maybe is that if you "like" modern China, you can't be a maoist. There's sort of a contradiction in supporting both (I'm not exactly sure what I mean by "support", but, you know....)