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
"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
There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater… — 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 must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — 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
