abinash phulkonwar

2025-01-21

Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung

(1893 – 1976)

  1. Charismatic Chinese communist leader and thinker 
  2. Founded the Communist China (People’s Republic of China) in 1949 
  3. Adopted communism to Asiatic form, took it to rural areas, to agriculture laborer, linked it to cultural revolution 
  4. Gave theory of Antagonistic vs non-antagonistic contradictions

His Programs:

  1. 1934- Historic ‘Long March’ -> Dust Bowl begins in the USA
  2. 1956- The Hundred Flowers Campaign- ‘Let hundred flowers blossom and hundred schools of thought contend’(socio-political openness program) -> Suez Crisis
  3. 1958-1962 - The Great Leap Forward- economic transformation of China  -> NASA was founded
  4. 1966- Cultural Revolution- purging anti-revolutionary elements from society -> Indra Gandhi
  5. "Two Bombs, One Satellite" project -> Space race
  6. “Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns” - 1950s -> Korean War

His thoughts:

  1. Communism in rural societies
  2. Rejecting elitism
  3. Thought reform
  4. Indoctrination
  5. State as supreme educator
  6. Communalism
  7. Social experimentation
  8. Militant nationalism

His Books:

  1. On Guerrilla Warfare-1937 
  2. On Contradiction-1937 
  3. On Practice- 1937 
  4. On Protracted War (lectures)- 1938
  5. On People's Democratic Rule-1949 
  6. The Little Red Book (his sayings) - 1964
  7. Art of war

His famous Quotes:

  1. "Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood."
  2. "Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun..."
  3. "Three years of hard work : ten thousand years of happiness."
  4. "A revolution is not a dinner party. "
  5. "An army of the people is invincible!"
  6. "War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."
  7. "Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."
  8. "Historical experience is written in iron and blood."
  9. "The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't."

Principles of Contradiction:

  1. Two World Outlook: Metaphysical and Dialectics;
  2. The Universility of Contradiction;
  3. The Particularity of Contradiction;
  4. The Principal Contradiction and Principal Aspect of Contradiction;
  5. The Identity and Struggle of Aspects of Contradiction;
  6. The Place of Antagonism in Contradiction;