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Never thought I’d find myself agreeing with Mao but this is a slap in the face to “literature is king” leftists
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Anonymous 3w

Mao literally has an essay called “Oppose Book Worship” that’s kind of a large part of Mao’s thing is that theory is a guide to the successes of past movements, but treating it like dogma leads to the same mistakes.

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Anonymous 3w

?? Someone has to experience something, and then they share that knowledge with others. By doing things like,,, writing literature 😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Right, and that literature has an important place, but no two revolutions have the same conditions. Dogmatically clinging to theory and refusing to adapt or improvise beyond it is what he’s warning against. He’s not saying “don’t read” he’s saying “read, but don’t think everything is in the book”

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

As cheese said, treating literature as dogma leads to mistakes. I’m of the belief that literature is fine but the second it takes precedence of current experience is when it turns from guideline to religion

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Over current experience* oops

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Big easy example, the Russian Revolution was primarily waged in the urban centers of Russia. Lenin writes a lot about the effectiveness of an urban revolution. Many Chinese Communists held too tightly to Lenin’s words, and attempted an urban war, which they got largely decimated in. If they had stuck to dogma and stayed in the cities, rather than fleeing to the countryside and waging attrition warfare, they would have lost the Chinese Civil War.

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