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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1h

Chapter 11, The Mass Line

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1h

If we tried to go on the offensive when the masses are not yet awakened, that would be adventurism. If we insisted on leading the masses to do anything against their will, we would certainly fail. If we did not advance when the masses demand advance, that would be Right opportunism.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 8h

Chapter 6, Imperialism and All Reactionaries are Paper Tigers

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 8h

Strategically, we take the eating of a meal lightly - we know we can finish it. Actually, we eat it mouthful by mouthful. It is impossible to swallow an entire banquet in one gulp. This is known as a piecemeal solution. In military parlance, it is called wiping out the enemy forces one by one.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 8h

In war, battles can only be fought one by one and the enemy forces can only be destroyed one by one. Factories can only be built one by one. The peasants can only plough the land plot by plot. The same is even true of eating a meal.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 8h

and yet in those early days they already declared that capitalism would be overthrown throughout the world. However, in dealing with concrete problems and particular enemies we shall be committing the error of adventurism unless we take them seriously.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 8h

This also means that we must despise the enemy with respect to the whole, but that we must take him seriously with respect to each concrete question. If we do not despise the enemy with respect to the whole, we shall be committing the error of opportunism. Marx and Engels were only two individuals,

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 8h

Over a long period, we have developed this concept for the struggle against the enemy: strategically we should despise all our enemies, but tactically we should take them all seriously.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 14h

Chapter 2, Classes and Class Struggle

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 14h

Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 20h

Chapter 4, The Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 20h

For example, the question of who is in the right, we or the domestic and foreign reactionaries, the imperialists, the feudalistic and bureaucrat-capitalists, is also a matter of right and wrong, but it is in a different category from questions of right and wrong among the people.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 20h

To put it briefly, the former is a matter of drawing a clear distinction between us and the enemy, and the latter a matter of drawing a clear distinction between right and wrong. It is, of course, true that the distinction between the enemy and us is also a matter of right and wrong.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 20h

Since they are different in nature, the contradictions between us and the enemy and the contradictions among the people must be resolved by different methods.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

Chapter 32, Culture and Art

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

that they operate as powerful weapons for uniting and educating the people and for attacking and destroying the enemy, and that they help the people fight the enemy with one heart and one mind.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

[Our purpose is] to ensure that literature and art fit well into the whole revolutionary machine as a component part,

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

Chapter 15, Democracy and the Tree Main Fields

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

Once this is done, unity will be achieved between officers and men, the combat effectiveness of the army will be greatly increased, and there will be no doubt of our ability to sustain the long, cruel war.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

A proper measure of democracy should be put into effect in the army, chiefly by abolishing the feudal practice of bullying and beating and by having officers and men share weal and woe.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

Chapter 13, Relationships between Officers and Men

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

of respect for the soldiers and the people, and of respect for the human dignity of prisoners of war once they have laid down their arms. Those who take all this as a technical matter and not one of basic attitude are indeed wrong, and they should correct their view.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

Our three major principles for the army's political work are, first, unity between officers and men; second, unity between the army and the people; and third, the disintegration of the enemy forces. To apply these principles effectively, we must start with this basic attitude

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

It is from this attitude that the various policies, methods and forms ensue. If we depart from this attitude, then the policies, methods and forms will certainly be wrong, and the relations between officers and men and between the army and the people are bound to be unsatisfactory.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 1d

Many people think that it is wrong methods that make for strained relations between officers and men and between the army and the people, but I always tell them that it is a question of basic attitude (or basic principle), of having respect for the soldiers and the people.

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