Is Mao worth reading? Did he contribute anything worthwhile to Marxism?

Is Mao worth reading? Did he contribute anything worthwhile to Marxism?

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He only valuable thing he contributed to Marxism was about 550 million people

Yes he is definitely worth reading if you are into Marxism.

Just watch Jason Unruhe's videos.

CAN'T SLEW THE ROO.
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not really, no

Why do so many hipsters love Mao when he was a shit writer and an even shittier theorist?

cultural revolution very exciting
almost hippyish -- return to the land, just b.e. yourself, beat up your profs, etc

The Cultural Revolution was probably the closest we ever got to True Communism™.

Workers and students did take political and economical control over the means of production. It was really grasroots, widespread social movement. Then they decided to engage in factionalism over who was more revolutionary and who loved Mao more and started to kill each other.

I think that says a lot about the nature of True Communism™. Even if you get your perfect worker's councils controlling everything, there is no reason why they wouldn't just engage in permanent warfare against each other.

>The Cultural Revolution was probably the closest we ever got to True Communism™.
That would be the Khmer Rouge, my friend.

What books about Mao/Cultural Revolution do you guys recommend?

I honestly doubt Mao read much Marx.

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>mao was a shit writer
you never read mao have you
mao was a true patrician Veeky Forumserati, an excellent poet to start and a decent essayist

>monolingual
>"true patrician"

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nah. fuck tankies.

stick with syndicalism, mutualism, actual communism, even Marxism. but don't fuck it up like tankies and MLs.

His political writings - no. His poetry - yes.

>The Cultural Revolution was probably the closest we ever got to True Communism™.
No, Communism was created for industrial nations like European ones not for largely Agrarian ones.

communism isn't what you think idiot hahahahah
you have socialism in mind

I didn't say communism had a state. I said it wasn't created or intended for agrarian societies like China. Marx wrote about western, industrial locations.

you should read both, but yes his poetry is good

If you please, give me some bullet points on the things of value you find in his writings.

"communism was created for industrial NATIONS"
- you
Wtf man. say unions, societies or some other shit then. Also no it's for any union with enough mutual trust to share. It was practiced in the stone age inside tribes.

>reading poetry in translation

he wasn't monolingual, but apart from that a stellar critique

I feel like people say he did because they don't wanna be racist.

I just found his shit to be like "Chinese style writing for Marxists".

>not reading chinese

The Battle for China's Past.

Sure but remember Mao's wise words.

On Practice and On Contradiction.

Jason Unruhe is truly the intellectual we need but don't deserve. He has never lost a debate. May the dialectic bless him.

>core tenant of Marxism is the rejection of metaphysics through dialectics

That alone gave me a headache.

thanks senpai

>he fell for the meme
kek, bagged another one boys
it's always the frogposters, funny how that works eh?

The little red book is trash, total pseud food

>implying i was talking about the little red book
way to project and reveal your pseudom faggot

I'm always leery of Maoists
He has some good insights on rural agrarian society, and China wouldn't be anywhere near the global power it is today without him, but he drifts too close to Stalinism for my liking.
Besides him the only other Maoist I can think of who was even remotely defensible was Ho Chi Minh, the rest of them just come off as incomprehensible maniacs

IDK i guess the Red Book has some bretty good lines in it

ive noticed with maoists that they tend to act like cultists. specifically they often repeat canned phrases that they heard mao or other maoists say. pretty weird group. the maoist third worldists are insane generally. maoists also tend to refer to maoism as a literal science and think its the only way for a revolution to happen.

Ho wasn't a Maoist and the VC never received aid from China.

I guess there aren't any Maoists I would be willing to defend

>anal water

>maoists
i hope you all starve to death

Why?

Has Veeky Forums read his memoirs? They are a gripping tale of illiteracy, romantic disillusionment, and anger management issues. Truly one of the greatest authors of our generation.

Yes. He admits he threatened to kill his coworkers.

Roo needs meds and/or therapy.

he killed a lot of people which is cool if you're still in high school

Mao was a retard so no

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Why is this bum-puffing loser and why should I listen to him?

Mao did nothing wrong!

>No, Communism was created for industrial nations like European ones not for largely Agrarian ones.

This is exactly what Mao said himself, if you read his work. Hence why he formed his own version of agrarian communism now known as 'Maoism' after him

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Veeky Forums is a maoist board
all newfags, /pol/tards, and redditors need to get out

He isn't wrong.

>Countless phenomena of the objective external world are reflected in a man’s brain through his five sense organs — the organs of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. At first, knowledge is perceptual. The leap to conceptual knowledge, i.e., to ideas, occurs when sufficient perceptual knowledge is accumulated. This is one process in cognition. It is the first stage in the whole process of cognition, the stage leading from objective matter to subjective consciousness from existence to ideas. Whether or not one’s consciousness or ideas (including theories, policies, plans or measures) do correctly reflect the laws of the objective external world is not yet proved at this stage, in which it is not yet possible to ascertain whether they are correct or not.

the only functional expression of communism in modern history is the Paris Commune, and even that was only kept alive by the immediate threat of the 'Other' occupying the city.

the wicked will always turn civility into strife

STRUGGLE SESSION

>muh cultural revolution
Mao was a tyrant not a philosopher, just like most communists. It's like asking if Hitler contributed anything to German Idealism.

except he did you cuck
t. hardcore antifa who knows better than to be blinded by ideology and deny historical fact

Is genghis khan worth reading?

This.

Mao's contributions are great, but you won't find it in historical events like the Cultural Revolution. Mao wrote that the peasantry was THE proletariat class, and had a great understanding of dialectics. This is why he's worth reading.