cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4493698

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them,unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward. -Mao Zedong

  • LemviEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    Also Mao: launches the Anti-Rightist Campaign

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      28·
      2 years ago

      Mao in that quote was talking about Chinese Peasants and the nascent Chinese working class holed up in newly industrialized cities, not entrenched feudal landlords or comprador genociders who collaborated with European and Japanese colonizers

    • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.mlbanned_from_community_badgeEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      Well, you may reach out to them to convert them, but you have to keep them from power.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlbanned_from_community_badgeEnglish
        18·
        2 years ago

        History proves that the only time when rightists actually listen to leftists is when rightists have the source of political power directed at their faces.