So, I’m currently reading On Contradiction, just got done with Chapter 3

And I came across this banger “The dogmatists do not observe this principle; they do not understand that conditions differ in different kinds of revolution and so do not understand that different methods should be used to resolve different contradictions; on the contrary, they invariably adopt what they imagine to be an unalterable formula and arbitrarily apply it everywhere, which only causes setbacks to the revolution or makes a sorry mess of what was originally well done.”

Mao Zedong in On Authority, Ch. 3, par. 8

Mao Zedong would have completely been against modern-day MLMs and saying stuff like “China is capitalist because they don’t do XYZ”

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    2 months ago

    the number one thing I have learned by doing the reading is that hardly anyone does the reading

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      2 months ago

      Honestly one of the most glaringly obvious points I’ve noticed after I started reading, it really seems like most people coast by on Wikipedia alone.