On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, rab wrote:
> On 19 Jul, 03:28, Tom Cod <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> OPPOSE BOOK WOR****P
>> by Mao Tse Tung
>> May 1930
>
> It is somewhat ironic that you quote Mao in opposing 'book wor****p'
> when the biggest exercise in book wor****p occurred in the 1960s when
> Mao's 'Little Red Book' was everywhere in China! We might just as
> easily say 'oppose newsgroup advice wor****p' because that is the
> written word as well.
Indeed let us say just that!
Resolutely struggle against newsgroup advice wor****p!
Dare to struggle, dare to win!
Build tunnels deep, store grain everywhere, and
never seek hegemony! (an actual Chinese slogan, by the way...)
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Who's the leader of the party made for you and me?
m-a-o, t-s-e, DASH t-u-n-g,
Mao Tse-Tung, Lin Piao!
Mao Ts-Tung, er, Chou En-Lai!
Forever let us hold our Red Books High, High, High, High!
-The Ballad of the Maosketeers-
-jh-
> Of course not all workers are going to read
> Hegel but Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky did and what they learned
> guided their writings and actions. No-one is saying that we should
> hide away in a study for years and not participate in the class
> struggle but we do need to develop dialectical materialism to guide
> our actions in that struggle. Indeed, without that we are forced to
> rely more upon older texts than ever because we won't be able to
> 'think on our feet' in this struggle. This was the critical issue of
> the split between the ICFI and the OCI in France in the early 1970s
> because without the development of dialectics the OCI took the
> 'Transitional Programme' as the 'last word' in Trotskyism.
>
> Roger
>
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