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It is even more striking that this confrontation between the Stalin of the thirties to the fifties and Mao at the threshold of the sixties evokes, down to its very detail, an infinitely older quarrel: the one that took place in 81 BC in China between the Legalists and the Confucian conservatives after the death of the emperor Wu
— Mar 03, 2023 05:21AM
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It constitutes the kernel of a trans-temporal political truth, of which Mao’s meditations on Stalin of 1959 and the Great Secretary’s diatribes against the Confucians in 81 BC are instances: forms of its appearing in separate worlds.
— Mar 05, 2023 02:47AM
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The Stalinist conception entails that ‘the state exerts an asphyxiating control over the peasantry’
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The Stalinist conception entails that ‘the state exerts an asphyxiating control over the peasantry’
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In truth, if Stalin does not want ‘subjective activism’ or-it’s the same thing-a ‘communist movement’, it is by dint of his systematic distrust of the great mass of the people, who are still peasants. Mao repeats it unceasingly: in the writings of Stalin, one ‘discerns great mistrust towards the peasants’.
— Mar 05, 2023 02:42AM
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As Mao never tires of repeating, in a key formula: ‘Without a communist movement, it is impossible to advance into communism’.
— Mar 05, 2023 02:35AM
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In truth, Mao indicts Stalin for a veritable depoliticization of the will:
All of this relates to the superstructure, that is to ideology. Stalin speaks only of the economy; he does not deal with politics.
— Mar 04, 2023 01:45AM
All of this relates to the superstructure, that is to ideology. Stalin speaks only of the economy; he does not deal with politics.
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Similarly, Mao rises up against Stalin’s objectivism. He argues that Stalin‘wants only technology and cadres’ and only deals with the ‘knowledge of the laws’.
— Mar 04, 2023 01:43AM
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This campaign drew on the ancient Legalists, and proposed a new reading of the Discourse, whose watchword was that ‘Lin Biao and Confucius are two badgers on the same hill
— Mar 03, 2023 05:25AM
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--a quarrel which is recorded in the great Chinese classic (obviously written by a Confucian), the Discourses on Salt and Iron.
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— Mar 03, 2023 05:24AM
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It is altogether striking that, in Mao Tse-tung’s work during this period, the critique of Stalin occupies a very important place, as if, in order to find a new path, it was necessary to return to the balance-sheet of the USSR’s collectivization in the thirties.
— Mar 03, 2023 05:20AM
