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Maoism
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I was enticed like a fly to a pot of honey by something reminiscent of a religious cult offering salvation. We were not urged to commit collective suicide, because the Day of Judgment was nigh, but to give up our individuality for the benefit of a collective intoxication, at the heart of which was a Little Red Book that had replaced all other forms of enlightenment. It contained all wisdom, the answers to all questions, expressions of all the social and political visions the world needed in orde
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― The Man from Beijing
― The Man from Beijing
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From the point of view of the history of Marxism, Maoist ideology is noteworthy not because Mao 'developed' anything but because it illustrates the unlimited flexibility of any doctrine once it becomes historically influential.
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― Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
― Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
