"Little Red Book" 2009

The Little Red Book; no, it's not a book used by men to keep their girlfriend's phone numbers. Nor is it a children's book, though millions of children have been encouraged, no, forced to read it.

Chinese dictator Mao Zedong put together a book of quotations and thoughts of his that was "informally" required to be own, read, carried with them at all times. In fact, it was purposely made "little" so that every Chinese man, woman, and child could carry it with them. Posters of Mau, as well as imagery of the Chinese people holding the "little book" were plastered everywhere the eye could see. Kind of like those darn Obama posters and new Pepsi logos.

Here are some quotations from "The Little Red Book, see any similarities to what we are being told today by the Obama Administration, liberals, and most of the mainstream media outlets:

• In all the practical work of our Party, all correct leadership is necessarily "from the masses, to the masses". This means: take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action...And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.

• We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.

• Party criticism should be carried out within the Party

• It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries (those who disagree) in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. (Kind of like when Barack Obama said, "“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors... I want you to argue with them and get in their face".VIDEO

• the recognition of class and class struggle, are necessary for peasants and the Chinese people to overcome both domestic and foreign enemy elements. This is not a simple, clean, or quick struggle.

• It is also important to unite with the middle peasants, and educate them on the failings of capitalism.

• U.S. imperialism, and European and domestic reactionary forces, represent real dangers, and in this respect are like real tigers.

• Party members should take their cue from the masses, and reinterpret policy with respect to the benefit of the masses.

• the Chinese Youth represent an active, vital force in China, to be drawn upon. At the same time, it is necessary to educate them, and for the Youth League to give special attention to their problems and interests.

• To distinguish real friends from real enemies, we must make a general analysis of the economic status of the various classes in Chinese society and of their respective attitudes towards the revolution (Communism). (sound familiar? Class warfare, get the poor angry at the rich, demonize those with more)

• We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports. (the hypocricy of the left- they cast judgement at those who disagree with them, but their agruments are shallow- "we oppose you because...just because."

• If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.(This sounds like Barack Obama, or his pastor Rev. Jeremiah "G-Damn America" Wright, and many Democrats in the U.S.!)

• The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge. (This is how Obama, Pelosi, and Reid treat the voters- like they are a bunch of children who cannot make decisions for themselves)

• To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses. All work done for the masses must start from their (the masses) needs and not from the desire of any individual, however well-intentioned. (This could have come right out of an Obama campaign speech, "Yes We Can")

• Our congress should teach every comrade to love the people and listen attentively to the voice of the masses; to identify himself with the masses wherever he goes and, instead of standing above them, to immerse himself among them; and, according to their present level (In other words, its better to lower the bar of success for oneself to join the crowd rather then seek to better oneself- sounds familiar doesn't it?)




To be continued...