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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4493698
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
Also Mao: launches the Anti-Rightist Campaign
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
Well, you may reach out to them to convert them, but you have to keep them from power.
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.