Book Quote by Leon Trotsky

“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

“Since the very beginning of the Communist regime, I had carefully studied books on Marxism and pronouncements by Chinese Communist Party leaders. It seemed…

— Nien Cheng

“From the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party, the greatest casualties of the Cultural Revolution were the Party’s prestige and its ability…

— Nien Cheng

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the…

— Eric Liu

The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad…

— Gao Xingjian

Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the…

— Leon Trotsky

“The time would come when every leader in the world would read the writings of the Chinese Communists—for it was barely possible that the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“The Communist Party has not done much to change China’s traditional notions of governance, and the result has been more sorrow for the Chinese…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Despite having built his own movement with little help from Moscow, the new Chinese leader was a dedicated Marxist-Leninist who was more than ready…

— John Lewis Gaddis

Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.

— Amiri Baraka

“On July 3, 1968, Chairman Mao issued an order calling for the ruthless suppression of class enemies. He wanted all members of the Five…

— Ma Jian

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

— Deng Xiaoping