MAO, Zedong.

£300 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Nous soutenons qu'il faut compter sur nos propres forces ("We stand for self-reliance"). A compelling example of Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda in French, printed in comparatively small numbers. The quote captures the Cultural Revolution's emphasis on mass mobilisation and socialist voluntarism, an ethos that China was keen to export to encourage mass movements and political insurgencies around the world.This quote, featured in chapter 21 of the "Little Red Book" under the theme of "Self-reliance and Arduous Struggle," comes from an essay by Mao authored toward the end of the Second World War. Originally intended to spur on the economy of the Chinese Communist Party's base areas affected by the ravages of war, by the time of the Cultural Revolution it was re-spun as an expression of Mao's belief that the inexhaustible energy of the masses would see China's socialist transformation through to the end. Furthermore, the emphasis here on the role of the army chimed perfectly with the efforts of the People's Liberation Army under Lin Biao to spearhead the growth of Mao's cult - the "Little Red Book", for instance, was originally a manual produced within the army for political study.France was a natural target when it came to exporting Maoism and the Maoist language of class struggle abroad. On the one hand, several members of the Chinese Communist Party's leadership hierarchy had cut their Marxist teeth in France in the early 20th century, and the Cultural Revolution drew

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