[14] How liberals think: “When a liberal is abused, he says: Thank God they didn’t beat me. When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.”
@RemninRibaoMan What is worse than lack of familiarity are casual pronouncements of this sort, on which many "MLMs" have been trained:
https://t.co/lQ0K7CO2sL
The quotations that make up the thread were introduced *in the first place* by Gonzaloites, who cited them as irrefutable proof of their position, relying on the fact that the quotations were in Chinese and inaccessible to English readers.
Again, we are confronted with the need to study the classics, to acquire Marxist principles and apply the Marxist method, so that we need not be hamstrung by silly dogmas such as the universality of PPW as a general tactics.
Those that cling to the Anti-Maoist dogma of the “Universality” of People’s War appear to be indulging in a certain tactical fetishism, advocating unilaterally for “hard” tactics
https://t.co/gnhnc8WCPY
My second point: universalizing e.g., base areas and guerrilla zones, or the relationship between guerrilla warfare, mobile warfare, and positional warfare at each strategic stage, etc., etc., is a metaphysical treatment of the strategy and tactics of PW, entirely anti-Maoist.