Quotations From Chairman Mao(Mao Zedong)1966

The book is tedious propaganda.But it was Mao and his cronies and his successors who slaughtered and starved their people, and as CanadaSucks points out, they'd have done that with or without the book.

If ANY book makes you act like Chairman Mao,or Hitler-you are a feebleminded automaton and should stick to the funny papers.Reading should be an inquiry made by a mind capable of critique and reason.Banning books is banning thinking.NOT good!

This mindless book didn't kill anyone. Mao did.

Again, the book itself was of little consequence.

Otherwise known as the Little Red Book, this volume is basically a compendium of quotes from many of Mao Zedong's speeches. During the Cultural Revolution, it was mandatory reading for all Chinese citizens, thus explaining why there are currently over 1 billion copies of the book in circulation. Mao had a two step plan towards forming his ideal government; first it began with the Great Leap Forward, which was actually a great leap backwards for China. It began in 1957 with the formation of agricultural communes and increasing steel production. However, it proved to be an utter disaster. Crops went unharvested despite good weather all year and industry was knocked out of equilibrium because all the workers were producing nothing but steel all the time! Never trust a communist with economic policy! Farmers who didn't know how to operate a steel mill were working there, and even all farming tools were melted down to form more steel. Adding to the problems, China's unaccountable totalitari... Read more

I ordered a copy of this book in 1965 when the Red Guards were rampaging. Can you believe that I got a note from the FBI when the little red book was delivered? We were really scared of Red China in those days. A better little red book that came out a year later was Quotations from Chairman LBJ, and the format of the little red book was followed fleshed out with Lyndon Johnson quotations! That was rib-tickling.

I can't believe the anti-academic drumbeat sh#t I'm reading. Of course Chairman Mao was a murderous creep who should be held in contempt. But the 'book' wasn't harmful at all- it was the implementation of said book by Mao that was harmful, evil, and immoral. Books are objects and are neither evil or good, it is the implementation and interpretation of books that cause the problems or solutions. You think the 'little red book' by itself is the reason why millions of Chinese starved to death? You think the Chinese revolution wouldn't have happened if it weren't for 'that horrible little book'? Wake me up when we all start reading again. . .

This is one with which I can heartily agree. Calling it childlike and flawed would be kind. It's a jumble of half-baked ideas from a man who only marginally understood the philosophy on which his own thinking was based. At its worst it spawned the Great Cultural Revolution of the 1960s which resulted in thousands (and perhaps even millions) of deaths and set China back at least two decades. Of no redeeming value whatsoever.