In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone;… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule....… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . .… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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