Maoism Quotes

“Mao’s great talent lay in turning the Chinese people into slaves, while making them feel like they were the masters of the country…All the world’s dictators have studied Mao.”
― Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History

“Here he honed his talent for guerrilla warfare, the principles of which he condensed to a sixteen-syllable jingle for his illiterate peasant troops: Di jin, wo tui; di zhu, wo rao; Di pi, wo da; Di tui, wo zhui (when the enemy advances, retreat; when the enemy rests, harass; when the enemy grows tired, attack; when the enemy retreats, pursue).”
― Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History

“Mao badges are pinned on West German student lapels, Little Red Book quotations are daubed on walls of Italian lecture halls.”
― Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History

“For decades, Western analysts have been too quick to overlook or dismiss the persistent influence of the Maoist heritage in contemporary China. In this book, I have argued that Maoism has been underestimated not just as a Chinese but also as a global phenomenon. I have sought to re-centre its ideas and experiences as major forces of the recent past, present and future that have shaped – and are shaping – the world, as well as China. What themes have emerged from observing Maoism’s global travels?”
― Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History

“Si la organización sigue aún a cargo del país en 2024, la Revolución comunista china habrá superado los setenta y cuatro años que duró la vida de su hermano mayor soviético. Los líderes de China experimentan un nervioso orgullo ante esta perspectiva; las causas del colapso soviético en 1991 fascinan a los miembros pretéritos y actuales del Politburó chino. Si el Partido Comunista Chino sobrevive mucho más allá de ese punto, quizá los historiadores comiencen a ver el octubre de 1949, en vez del octubre de 1917, como la fecha de la revolución que cambió las reglas del juego en el pasado siglo.”
― Julia Lovell, Maoismo: Una historia global

“Yet one long-term resident of Peru, a Belgian priest, disagreed: ‘what such terrible conditions generated, usually and spontaneously, in the people that suffered them was not rebelliousness, but rather fatalism, passivity, or religious resignation…the explosions of violence could only be understood if given social conditions came together with an ideology that deliberately and consciously proposed exercising violence as a response’.2”
― Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History