its not fair how everyone has first editions quotations from mao except me ....

My most prized possessions

Nice g i got that same one first editions of the 2 collected works

I bought my lil red book when I was mad young and not even a Maoist yet. 5 bucks at a used bookstore in Portland. Didn’t realize it was a first edition and how cool it was until years later

That’s more or less what happened to me. Was vaguely an anarchist from age like 13-16 then started actually reading and became a ML for 6 months and that led me to Maoism and been that way ever since

i went through anarchist -> leftcom -> ml -> maoist

Haven't really been moved, but I think it's interesting to read, and I can definitely see the influences of his past anarchist political thought on the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism

It's a nice collectible to have, I like old lefty paraphernalia

Bought it from a Chinese Maoist store for $15 off Weidian (chinese e-commerce site)

wyzxwk.com (UTOPIA, Chinese Maoist blog)

shop1390688720.v.weidian.com/item.html?itemID=2768238449

They have a bunch of books, mainly in Chinese though, so I can't read it

No contemporary Maoist group has ever been able to truly copy his flowery prose, it sounds very awkward and robotic when they do it

Mao is a great writer, talks in a poet's voice, the theory however is something I feel oppositional towards due to what I view as flaws, largely carried over from its parent ideology, and his interpretation was largely unable to change that

I do think, however, he was a great tactician in his warfare, and he has obviously been influential on both state COIN theory and future insurgencies from all across the political spectrum

This is talking about "Mao Zedong Thought" Maoism from 1949 to Mao's death in 1976

i fell in love with Mao flowery writing style as well

most contemporary maoist well english speaking ones try to hard to directly copy what he would say translated to english rather than try to use an english poetic form which would better carry over what made Mao a good writer

I mean yeah, he was an university-educated teacher with an interest in poetry, what came to mind in reading Mao and his speaking in aphorisms was like the classical Greeks, which I'm sure he read along with old Chinese literature

I can definitely see why people were drawn to him and his writings, because of the way he put his theory into something that didn't sound as militantly stoic as Lenin

this is like when griffith got the behelit as a kid

This how you age when you unproblematic

He looks like he got sleep apnea

"In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA "
latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html

this headline from 2016 f***ing kills me

rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/war-or-terror-africa-sahel-niger-pentagon-1234612083

"At the same time, West African officers trained and advised by U.S. special operators keep overthrowing the governments the United States is trying to prop up — including four coups by Flintlock attendees since 2020. SOCAFRICA’s chief, Rear Adm. Milton “Jamie” Sands, tells Rolling Stone that the United States was not responsible for the rebellions, was powerless to prevent them, and suggested a major reason for the coups was popular dissatisfaction with U.S. partners on the continent who suppress the will of their own peoples."

" This year, the United States cut support to the first of those countries, Burkina Faso, after Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba overthrew his nation’s democratically elected president in January. Damiba, it turns out, was well known to AFRICOM, having participated in at least a half dozen U.S. training events. In 2010 and 2020, for example, he took part in SOCAFRICA’s Flintlock exercise.

Late last month, Damiba was overthrown by another military officer, Capt. Ibrahim Traoré. Was he also mentored by the United States? AFRICOM doesn’t know.

“This is something we will have to research and get back to you,” Africa Command spokesperson Kelly Cahalan tells Rolling Stone. “Military seizures of power are inconsistent with U.S. military training and education,” said Cahalan. But that would be news to trainees, like Damiba. "

US going ham in africa and failing as usual

" In 2014, Lt. Col. Isaac Zida, who attended a counterterrorism training course at Florida’s MacDill Air Force Base that was sponsored by Joint Special Operations University, seized power in Burkina Faso. The next year, Gen. Gilbert Diendéré — who headed the Burkina Faso Flintlock 2010 Committee — led the junta that overthrew that country’s government. In 2020, Col. Assimi Goïta, who also worked with U.S. Special Operations forces, participating in Flintlock training exercises and attending a Joint Special Operations University seminar at MacDill, overthrew Mali’s government. Goïta then stepped down and took the job of vice president in a transitional government charged with returning Mali to civilian rule, but soon seized power again, conducting his second coup in 2021. That same year, members of a Guinean special forces unit led by Col. Mamady Doumbouya took a break from training with U.S. Green Berets to storm the presidential palace and depose the country’s 83-year-old president, Alpha Condé. Doumbouya was soon installed as Guinea’s new leader.

SOCAFRICA’s Flintlock exercise may not be an incubator of insurrection, but recent putschists have been some of its highest profile participants. Officers who attended just two Flintlock exercises, alone, have conducted five coups since 2015. Burkina Faso’s Diendéré and Damiba were both involved in Flintlock 2010, while AFRICOM told Rolling Stone that Guinea’s Doumbouya and Mali’s Goita both attended Flintlock 2019. “Providing this kind of tactical training in fragile democracies comes with costs, and so far we haven’t been able to have honest public conversations about those costs,” said Savell, “nor do we have enough public information about every kind of training we’re engaging in and how to avoid abetting human-rights violations.”

AFRICOM says it does not keep tabs of which or how many American mentees overthrow their own governments, but U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries — Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia — since 2008.

Rear Adm. Sands, the Special Operations Command Africa chief, maintained that U.S. training was not linked to coups and instead suggested that a key reason for them was that the U.S. was partnered with repressive regimes or, as he put it, “governance that is not necessarily aligned with the rights and will of their people.” Despite the rebellions by U.S. trainees and the partnerships with oppressive governments, Sands insisted, there “is no other option” but to continue U.S. support but no way to halt the coups."

bruh

Many cases

starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Enver_Hoxha

assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

After Vladimir Lenin's death, and under the regime of Stalin, the state's approach to communism became corrupted. While Stalin was not a member of the Templar Order, the Templars infiltrated the Politburo, secretly influencing Stalin's regime. The Stalinist government allowed the Templar Yuri Petrovich Figatner to head a special government commission to investigate the Russian Academy of Sciences and persecute "counter-revolutionaries".1 Many Assassins and scientists loyal to the Assassin cause were killed or forced into hiding during Stalin's regime.

trotskyist assassins creed

Pathetic... yeah this nigga died of covid and they replaced him with a s***ty clone lol

Please let this man back on Twitter immediately

We are going to start a dialogue.