STOP

Just a few paragraphs and I can already see that Mao has once again found a way to make an incredibly simple idea seem complex and mystical.

Here's a much better way to phrase the thought he's idiotically trying to convey in this work: Don't blindly trust a source of authority just because it's an authority.

Or, even more succinctly: Think for yourself.

I have no idea why he's singling out books specifically; probably just another one of the many Maoist metaphors that falls flat.

How can we overcome book worship? The only way is to investigate the actual situation.

WITHOUT INVESTIGATING THE ACTUAL SITUATION, THERE IS BOUND TO BE AN IDEALIST APPRAISAL OF CLASS FORCES AND AN IDEALIST GUIDANCE IN WORK, RESULTING EITHER IN OPPORTUNISM OR IN PUTSCHISM

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Was Yoda a Maoist?

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Read my post on why this is a moronically long and convoluted way to tell people to think for themselves.

Secondly, and this is something Maoists REALLY struggle with: Mao was not trying to communicate to a 21st century middle class first worlder. He was trying to communicate to peasants from an extremely collectivistic and dogmatic culture who hadn't the faintest notions of the scientific method. His sentiment here has little to no relevance to people on this board because people on this board have already rejected conventional sources of wisdom by virtue of the fact that they hold an extremely unpopular viewpoint.

There is nothing “mystical” in this work, maybe finish reading it.
He’s also telling you to investigate the actual conditions and form conclusions from them.

Honestly, this work is still vary relevant, if not slightly outdated. Too many first world socialists just read theory and sit in their armchair, never engaging in praxis or investigating actual conditions, wondering in vain why they get no results. They worship Marx as a god and engage in petty sectarianism instead of actual political work. Arguments rely on who can quote X socialist figure better, etc.

Sorry for the mispellings, I should proofread first

Okay, I'm starting to understand your point a little bit better.

The armchair problem has more to do with the demoralizing effects of low revolutionary potential rather than a cultural issue. I don't think first world leftists are incapable of investigating problems; rather, I think they have little incentive to investigate problems because they see such minimal results in the current socioeconomic climate.

Don't forget the Confucian examination system required extensively memorizing traditional Chinese texts and explaining them for days in a tiny wooden shack to qualify for any sort of governmental position during the monarchy.

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Mao is arguing against prevailing (and obviously wrong) ideas of his time. Your moronic attempt at an argument boils down to: "lol, he talks common sense in much words."

It's almost as if you can't be bothered to comprehend that there existed different cultural and ideological historical times and places.

Keep posting tho, I for one enjoy looking at you being raped by maoposter.

Pol Pot is a fascist reactionary.

Urbanite detected.

Thankfully this really isn’t a worry in the internet age. Nearly any transgressive or controversial view or philosophy one can hold is freely available on the internet, no publishing or money need to write and post somewhere.

I understand the cultural context. I'm saying, even for the cultural context, he could've conveyed his ideas more clearly and effectively.

Thus spoke the Sinophile.

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Also, in one of the fucking posts you quoted, I EXPLAINED the historical and ideological context

Are you literally fucking illiterate? Then you'll fit right in with Maoism.

Well, it’s a good thing that the overall literacy rate went from around 20% in 1950 to more than 85% around 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of illiterate Chinese was cut by 40 million. It seems like Maoism and its successors are very good at fighting illiteracy.

DAILY REMINDER MAOISM HAS DONE MORE THAN TROTS AND CONTINUES FIGHTING TO THIS DAY

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STOP SUPPORTING NIGGERS
STOP SUPPORTING NIGGERS
STOP SUPPORTING NIGGERS
STOP SUPPORTING NIGGERS

um…. just a little reminder??? that um??? the "n word" is rude as h*ck

"DAILY REMINDER MAOISM HAS DONE MORE THAN TROTS AND CONTINUES FIGHTING TO THIS DAY"

chill mass graves aren't that much of an achievement.

>>>Zig Forums

They just have much more racist & intentional body bags.

Take notes, LARPers

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That's because even the worst, most bargain bin version of Marxism is still superior to capitalism.

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Maybe one day the dumb proles will realize Mao was the greatest and the so-called mass graves were only because people were being “undialectial” :,(.

Start making economic theory that doesnt lead to 100 gorillion people dying of hunger.