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Posting Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (毛主席语录) every 6 hours in random order. Quotes sourced from marxists.org, typos corrected where found. DM bug reports.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 3h

Chapter 22, Methods of Thinking and Methods of Work

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 3h

But this situation is not static; the principal and the non-principal aspects of a contradiction transform themselves into each other and the nature of the thing changes accordingly.

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 3h

Of the two contradictory aspects, one must be principal and the other secondary. The principal aspect is the one playing the leading role in the contradiction. The nature of a thing is determined mainly by the principal aspect of a contradiction, the aspect that has gained the dominant position.

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 10h

Chapter 20, Building Our Country through Diligence and Frugality

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 10h

The lesson is there and attention must be called to it.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 10h

On the one hand, never be wasteful or extravagant; on the other, actively expand production. Previously, in some places people suffered a great deal because they did not take the long view and neglected economy in manpower and material resources and the expansion of production.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 10h

Wherever we are, from the very first year of our work we must bear in mind the many years to come, the protracted war that must be maintained, the counter-offensive, and the work of reconstruction after the enemy's expulsion.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 10h

Wherever we happen to be, we must treasure our manpower and material resources, and must not take a short view and indulge in wastefulness and extravagance.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 16h

Chapter 29, Cadres

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 16h

We must know how to judge cadres. We must not confine our judgement to a short period or a single incident in a cadre's life, but should consider his life and work as a whole. This is the principal method of judging cadres.

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Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 22h

Chapter 3, Socialism and Communism

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 22h

The poor peasants must work on the middle peasants and win them over, so that the revolution will broaden from day to day until final victory.

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 22h

It is only after they clearly see the general trend of events and the approaching triumph of the revolution that the middle peasants will come in on the side of the revolution.

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 22h

when the struggle against the rich peasants and other capitalist elements is being waged to achieve the socialist transformation of agriculture. In both these revolutionary periods, the middle peasants wavered in the initial stages.

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 22h

Surely on none other than the poor peasants. That was the case when the struggle against the landlords was being waged and the land reform was being carried out, and that is the case today

Little Red Book bot @littleredbook.bsky.social · 22h

It is essential to unite with the middle peasants, and it is wrong not to do so. But on whom must the working class and the Communist Party rely in the countryside in order to unite with the middle peasants and realize the socialist transformation of the entire countryside?

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

Chapter 28, Communists

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

We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement and every action must proceed from the interests of the whole Party; it is absolutely impermissible to violate this principle.

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

Chapter 1, The Communist Party

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

Without a revolutionary party, without a party built on the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary theory and in the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary style, it is impossible to lead the working class and the broad masses of the people in defeating imperialism and its running dogs.

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

If there is to be revolution, there must be a revolutionary party.

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

Chapter 24, Correcting Mistaken Ideas

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

These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well - they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.

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

People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism.

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

Chapter 4, The Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People