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”
That’s very true specifically for the MLM3Ws, who in the imperial core have very little in common with actual MLMs. They’ll read the same revolutionary study guide/book for a year+, dissect it from each and every angle, spend countless hours arguing the tiniest points and mistranslations, kick out half of the group for minute (or fundamental) disagreements, and call themselves revolutionaries. And then never do an ounce of Marxist analysis on what the fuck did they spend that time on, or why have they never went outside to talk to a single person while preaching about the mass line.