Mao's Little Red Book isn't really a creation of Mao, it was put together by Lin Biao, if I remember correctly. I don't think that you can judge someone's writing by a best of quote book. (Althusser always was fairly positive on Mao's thought on contradiction... Laclau and Mouffe... not so much.) I also think that you can make an argument for Mao's relevance in the U.S. if only because of his influence on the Black Power movement, as well as the general Third Worldist tendency (I'm not arguing that this influence was necessarily always positive... just that there is an influence.) robert wood
>> Doug:
>> >The Little Red Book is a cartoon. I've never read Mao's more
>> extended efforts, but life is short.
>>
>> And you're not trying to drag a country of whatever it was then, 600
>> million or so, out of feudalism, so it may really not be relevant.
>> (I'm not being sarcastic.)
>
> No it's not. I don't see what relevance Maoism has to the U.S. at all.
> But you never saw Lenin writing the sort of drivel that appears
> between those red covers, and Russia wasn't exactly at the level of
> France in 1917 either.
>
> Doug
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