He Quote by Amiri Baraka Download Open image “Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.” — Amiri Baraka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare He Made Mao Zedong Revolution Revolutionary
“Mao Zedong himself would have realized that the Communist Party has become weak. “All reactionaries are paper tigers,” he said. And Mao said something… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share
Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the way to victory. It should be said that before the sixties or the late fifties many of his ideas brought us victories, and the fundamental principles he advanced were quite correct. — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share
“In communist parlance, after the socialist transformation of the ownership of the means of production had been completed, a new revolution was required to stamp out once and for all the remnants of bourgeois culture, from private thoughts to private markets. Just as the transition from capitalism to socialism required a revolution, the transition from socialism to communism demanded a… — Frank Dikötter Copy Share
So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party".… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share
Not only did Mao Zedong Thought lead us to victory in the revolution in the past; it is - and will continue to be… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Unlike most founding dictators—Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler—Mao did not inspire a passionate following through his oratory, or ideological appeal. He simply sought willing recruits among… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
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