History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust. Mao Zedong More Quotes by Mao Zedong More Quotes From Mao Zedong We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know. Mao Zedong autumn matter teacher The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to help him change and start afresh and not one of exclusion, unless he is incorrigible. Mao Zedong mistake attitude order The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such a struggle. Before a brand-new social system can be built on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. Invariably, remnants of old ideas reflecting the old system remain in people's minds for a long time, and they do not easily give way. After a co-operative is established, it must go through many more struggles before it can be consolidated. Even then, the moment it relaxes its efforts it may collapse. Mao Zedong struggle long ideas Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted. Mao Zedong beautiful character reality There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified. Mao Zedong finals analysis principles In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning. Mao Zedong adequate tasks country Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. Mao Zedong passivity-is goal enemy We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood. Mao Zedong good-luck struggle winning Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance. Mao Zedong party example mistake Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy. Mao Zedong hammers use enemy Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be. Mao Zedong muzzle government gun The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs. Mao Zedong triumph class people Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people. Mao Zedong army people Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. Mao Zedong equality transformation sex Let one thousand flowers bloom. Mao Zedong blooming-flower thousand flower The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems. Mao Zedong understanding real law Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own Mao Zedong systematic study ideas When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing. Mao Zedong essence appearance looks Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors. Mao Zedong errors levels mistake All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it! Mao Zedong chinese use world
