Written by Comrade Rob Rich – White Panther Party Minister of Justice
12/26/1893 – 9/9/1976
“All men must die, but death can vary in its significance. The ancient Chinese writer Szuma Chien said, “Though death befalls all men alike, it may be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.” To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather. Comrade Chang Szu-teh died for the people, and his death is indeed weightier than Mount Tai.” Mao Zedong- Serve The People
When we speak on Mao Zedong, we speak on the masses of Chinese people. For Mao’s devotion to not only the Chinese people but the international proletariat across the globe. He understood, in order to be a revolutionary, one must put the people before individual wants and desires. Mao lost 3 wife’s and his son in the struggle for liberation.
There’s contributions that we can say came from Mao’s leadership and wisdom but nonetheless those attributes came from his relationship with the working class.
When reactionaries spew hatred and unprincipled historical analysis of the Chairman like he was some evil dictator, I laugh…. This is so far from the truth it can’t be considered serious. However, I will defend the honor of the comrade who gave his life for us all to have a better life.
Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, in the village of Shaoshan in Hunan Province, China.
Mao’s father, Mao Yichang, was born a poor peasant and was forced to become a soldier for
seven years in order to pay off his father’s debts.
He began working the fields at the age of 6 and a year later started going to school. At 14 he married his first wife. At this time, many uprisings in China were happening which gained his attention. Thriving in school but inclined by revolutionary actions, a young Mao joined an army of revolutionary potential in 1911. As that failed, he was soon headed back to continue his studies. Enrolling in college by 1913. Joining and leading student activist and anarchist groups while attending college. These groups developed Guerilla tactics as they grew. As well as hosting study groups and debates.
In 1918 Mao’s mother died and he took a job as an assistant librarian, this is where he was introduced to Marxism. By 1920 Mao was remarried and building a Communist party with the comrades he met along his political journey.
The early years of Mao’s life set a foundation to the obstacles to come. These stages are studies within themselves. There were many civil wars and United fronts against foreign aggression that sharpened Mao’s approach to a proletarian revolution.
Through the period from 1927 to the beginning of 1930, the area of armed peasant uprisings and rural revolutionary bases grew steadily. Many of the fighting sections under communist leadership joined Mao’s forces. The Red Army grew to 60,000
soldiers and, a little later to 100,000 soldiers.
It was during the Long March, at the Zunyi Plenum of the CPC in January 1935, that leadership of the Party moved into the hands of Mao and his policies. This was a turning point for the Long March as well as for the Chinese Revolution.
During the United front with the Chinese Nationalist against the Japanese, Mao wrote on Protracted People’s War putting emphasis on the long fights that were necessary in order to pull toward victory. This included the struggles against the Nationalist.
As wars persisted and Mao gained more and more support, the red army was able to build many base areas surrounding the cities until finally seizing power under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
Inheriting a battered, impoverished, disease rat ridden country in shambles. There was no time to waste. Policies and campaigns were launched and all hands were on deck. Heavy emphasis was put on collective farming and helping build modern industry. Mistakes were made on the way, but mistakes that were corrected nonetheless.
After Mao Zedong came into leadership, the life expectancy, birth rate, food production, literacy rate and overall well being of the Chinese people consistently went up until his death on September 9th 1976.
Some of Mao’s most powerful contributions to revolutionary theory were: Serve the People, Protracted People’s War, Combat liberalism, New Democracy, Correcting Mistaken Ideas of the Party, On Contradictions, Cultural Revolution, The Mass line, Two line Struggle, the Great Debate and many more.
Mao was also a poet, something that is seen in all of his writing. He truly understood the importance of reshaping the ideas and culture of the proletariat to the likeness of our class and not a reflection of the bourgeois ideas bestowed upon us.
As I came with a quote from Mao I will end with one as well.
“Comrade Bethune’s spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his boundless sense of responsibility in his work and his boundless warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people. Every Communist must learn from him. We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him. With this spirit everyone can be very useful to the people. A man’s ability may be great or small, but if he has this spirit, he is already noble minded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests, a man who is of value to the people.”
As Mao honored the sacrifice of Comrade Bethune, we shall honor The memory of Comrade Mao the same way.
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