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      Mao's Little Red Book on Capitalism, Socialism and World War 3

      Mao Tse-tung (1964)

       Please watch these two clips before reading the text excerpt:

       

       

      We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.

      The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

      Without socialization of agriculture, there can be no complete, consolidated socialism.

      Before a brand-new social system can be built on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. Invariably, remnants of old ideas reflecting the old system remain in people's minds for a long time, and they do not easily give way.

      Eliminate the rich-peasant economy and the individual economy in the countryside so that all the rural people will become increasingly well off together. We maintain that this is the only way to consolidate the worker-peasant alliance.

      Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. 

      Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.

      "War is the continuation of politics." In this sense, war is politics and war itself is a political action; since ancient times there has never been a war that did not have a political character.... However, war has its own particular characteristics and in this sense, it cannot be equated with politics in general. "War is the continuation of politics by other . . . means."

      Every Communist must grasp the truth; "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

      War, this monster of mutual slaughter among men, will be finally eliminated by the progress of human society, and in the not too distant future too. 

      People all over the world are now discussing whether a third world war will break out.

      The First World War was followed by the birth of the Soviet Union with a population of 200 million. The Second World War was followed by the emergence of the socialist camp with a combined population of 900 million. 

      If the imperialists insist on launching a third world war, it is certain that several hundred million more will turn to socialism, and then there will not be much room left on earth for the imperialists; it is also likely that the whole structure of imperialism will utterly collapse.

      East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind. That is to say, the forces of socialism have become overwhelmingly superior to the forces of imperialism.

      Then the whole world will belong to the people. Monsters of all kinds shall be destroyed.

       

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