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As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them,unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward. -Mao Zedong (lemmygrad.ml)

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As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them,unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward. -Mao Zedong

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[-] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 5 months ago

Also Mao: launches the Anti-Rightist Campaign

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

Mao in that quote was talking about Chinese Peasants and the nascent Chinese working class holed up in newly industrialized cities, not entrenched feudal landlords or comprador genociders who collaborated with European and Japanese colonizers

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, you may reach out to them to convert them, but you have to keep them from power.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 months ago

History proves that the only time when rightists actually listen to leftists is when rightists have the source of political power directed at their faces.