December 26th,2011 marks the 119th anniversary of the birth of the greatest revolutionary of our time, Chairman Mao Tsetung. There has been massive amounts of poison directed at the Chairman since his death in 1976, from every corner of those who would uphold this decrepit and rotten system. The majority of "punks" out there are either apolitical or anarchist, and would decry my stance as being "hierarchical" and "totalitarian". But I don't care. We have the luxury of being able to argue and point fingers, (and to be in shitty bands), while others are out there fighting. The largest and most important revolutionary struggles taking place in the world today are being waged by Maoist parties and organizations. From India, Nepal, to the Philippines, Turkey, Peru (don't believe what the press says), People's Wars are being waged to take down the capitalist/imperialist system. And yet, there are volumes of books, and "documentaries" being produced telling us that Mao was evil, and to give up on revolution altogether. Meanwhile, they tell us that the democratic model is the best of all possible worlds. They invade Afghanistan, telling us that women will be liberated, while one out of four women in her lifetime will be sexually assaulted in the u.s.a. A country where women soldiers have escorts when they need to go to the bathroom at night, not to be protected from the "enemy", but from their fellow comrades. Some of the most important contributions (in brief) from Chairman Mao are: He brought the revolution to the colonial countries,and developed the theory of People's War for the struggles there.
"What is a true bastion of iron? It is the masses, the millions upon millions of people who genuinely and sincerely support the revolution. That is the real iron bastion which it is impossible, and absolutely impossible, for any force on earth to smash.
The counter-revolution cannot smash us; on the contrary, we shall smash it. Rallying millions upon millions of people round the revolutionary government and expanding our revolutionary war, we shall wipe out all counter-revolution and take over the whole of China."-Chairman Mao Tsetung.
He brought liberation to women, who were basically slaves to the feudal system in society, and to their husbands and male relatives in the home. Girls were routinely sold into slavery when the family was too poor to survive, and foot binding was part of the culture.
He taught the masses of people to be fearless in the face of the imperialist powers, no matter how strong they look on the surface.
"Imperialism will not last long because it always does evil things. It persists in grooming and supporting reactionaries in all countries who are against the people, it has forcibly seized many colonies and semi-colonies and many military bases, and it threatens the peace with atomic war. Thus, forced by imperialism to do so, more than 90 per cent of the people of the world are rising or will rise in struggle against it. Yet, imperialism is still alive, still running amuck in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In the West imperialism is still oppressing the people at home. This situation must change. It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism."
-Chairman Mao Tsetung.
Chairman Mao attempted to change the entire culture of socialist society, by unleashing the masses in their millions to partake in deciding which direction society was going. This was known as The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Much has been written by the reactionaries about this movement, and understandably so. The last thing they want is for the actual participation of the majority of people in deciding what's right,and what's not for society.
I am going to end this here for now, for I too, have to go to work. I hope to see y'all soon. Do not be shy to come up and discuss these ideas with me. To be continued....
