Stuart Schram. The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung.

Contents

PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION

INTRODUCTION

A NOTE ON THE TEXTS

PROLOGUE: THE PRE-MARXIST PERIOD IN MAO TSE-TUNG’S DEVELOPMENT

A study of physical education

I – TO THE GLORY OF THE HANS

A – Toward a new golden age

B – The Chinese people

C – Old China, new China

D – The Chinese people has stood up

II – MAO TSE-TUNG AS A MARXIST THEORETICIAN

A – The Sinification of Marxism

B – What is a Marxist theoretician?

C – Dialectical materialism

D – On practice

E – On contradiction

III – EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS – THE BOURGEOISIE BETWEEN IMPERIALISM AND THE REVOLUTION

A – The role of the merchants in the national revolution

B – The Chinese Government and the foreigners

C – Analysis of all the classes in Chinese society

D – The hegemony of the proletariat in the bourgeois-democratic revolution

E – The relation between external and internal contradictions

F – A letter from the Chinese workers’ and peasants’ Red Army to our brothers the soldiers of the White Army on the subject ofthe forced occupation of Manchuria by Japanese imperialism

G – Proclamation on the north-ward march of the Chinese workers’ and peasants’ Red Army to light Japan/H. On the tactics of fighting Japanese imperialism

I – The stages in the development of the revolution

J – The Kuomintang has a brilliant future

K – The Chinese revolution and the Contents Chinese Communist Party

L – The bourgeoisie and the people

IV – THE PEASANTRY AND WORKING-CLASS LEADERSHIP

A – The great union of the popular masses

B – An analysis of the various classes of the Chinese peasantry and their attitudes toward revolution

C – The Chinese proletariat

D – The bitter sufferings of the peasants in Kiangsu and Chekiang, and their movements of resistance

E – Report of an investigation into the peasant movement in Hunan

F – The force of the peasantry and the leadership of the workers

G – Appeal to the Ko Lao Hui

H – The particular characteristics of the Chinese peasantry and the Chinese proletariat

V – THE MILITARY PRINCIPLES OF MAO TSE-TUNG

A – Why can China’sRed political power exist?

B – The composition and training of the Red Army in earliest days

C – Chingkang Mountain

D – Erroneous conceptions and their social origins

E – The particularities of China’s revolutionary war

F – One against ten and ten against one: the essence of guerrilla tactics

G – Poems on the Long March

H – Conscious activity in war

I – We must not fear the enemy

J – War and politics

K – Encircling the cities from the countryside

L – Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun

M – The military principles for defeatingChiang Kai-shek

VI – DICTATORSHIP, CONTRADICTIONS, AND THE MASS LINE

A1 – Communism and dictatorship

A2 – Chinese forms and Soviet forms

A3 – The function of dictatorship in the transformation of society

B1 – Nonantagonistic contradictions

B2 – Contradictions under socialism

B3 – On the correct handling of contradictions among the people

C1 – On democratic centralism

C2 – Against the intimidation of comrades

C3. On the mass line

C4 – Let us transform the consciousness ofthe masses

C5 – Without a party, there can be no revolution

C6 – Learning from one’s subordinates

C7 – Victory is only the first step

C8 – Everything depends on the Party secretaries

C9 – The danger of right opportunism within the Party

C10 – The socialist education movement in the countryside

C11 – Old cadres must not rest on their laurels

C12 – Getting rid of the stale and taking in the fresh

C13 – The Party is the leading nucleus

VII – TRANSFORMING MAN, NATURE, AND SOCIETY

A1 – Miss Chao’s suicide

A2 – Decree regarding marriage

A3 – China’s women are a vast reserve of labour power

A4 – Lines Contents 7 written on a picture of the Women’s Militia

B1 – Let’s get organized!

B2 – On the enlightened gentry

B3 – The general line of land reform: Unite ninety per cent of the population

B4 – We must preserve a rich peasant economy

B5 – The question of agricultural cooperation

B6 – Maintaining the predominance of the poor peasants in the cooperatives

B7 – Let us create higherstage cooperatives

B8 – Communes are better

C1 – Revolution can change everything

C2 – Six hundred million paupers

C3 – China is poor and blank

C4 – The masses can do anything

D1 – Youth needs experience

D2 – The role of youth in the revolution

D3 – Young people are less conservative

E1 – Ancient culture and new culture

E2 – The mastery of language is not easy

E3 – Literature and art in the service of the people

E4 – Down with the praise of reactionary feudal culture

E5 – Party formalism gives the reader a headache

E6 – Oppose spontaneous capitalist tendencies

E7 – To overthrow a political power one must create public opinión

E8 – We must prevent China from changing color

E9 – The dead still rule today

E10 – Directives regarding the Cultural Revolution

VIII – CHINA AND THE NON-EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

A – China is the key

B – Guerrilla warfare is the inevitable path

C – China’s boundaries

D – There is no third way

E – China supports the Algerian people’s struggle for liberation

F – India’s path is similar to that of China

G – The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America should unite and drive American imperialism back to where it came from

H – The racial question is a class question

I – American imperialism is closely surrounded by the peoples ofthe world

J – The days of the U.S. aggressors in Vietnam are numbered

IX – RELATIONS WITH THE WEST

A – America, the most murderous of hangmen

B – The League of Nations is a league of robbers!

C – A war for eternal peace

D – We are for Roosevelt and against Chamberlain

E – The Second Imperialist War

F – Hurley, Chiang Kai-shek, and the Reader’s Digest are a menace to world peace

G – Reactionaries and atom bombs are paper tigers

H – American imperialism is sitting on a volcano

I – Imperialists will never become Buddhas until their doom

J – The East wind prevails over the West wind

K – We must not fear nuclear war

L – Oppose racial discrimination by U.S. imperialism

M – U.S. imperialism is the most ferocious enemy of the world’s people

X – RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION AND THE OTHER COMMUNIST PARTIES

A – We are not going to turn the country over to Moscow!

B – In memory of Norman Bethune

C – The Comintern has long ceased to meddle in our internal affairs

D – Letter to the Spanish people

E – Letter to Comrade Browder

F – Telegram to Comrade Foster

G – Stalin is our commander

H – The greatest friendship

I – Stalin’s place in history

J – The Albanian people has a glorious revolutionary tradition

K – No power on earth can separate us

L – Revisionist rule will not last long

M – The Soviet leading clique is a mere dust heap

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