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”
Exactly, it’s intellectual laziness where they just want a paint by numbers set of instructions instead of actually having to think for themselves.
Essentially, they fail to apply Marxist theory to Marxism :D
they’re just LARPers :)
One of the reasons, for sure