Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

It is an interesting short read. It is not exhaustive and I fail to see how this would motivate the Chinese into being better revolutionaries. It reads more of Mao wanting everyone to own the book for the sake of political uniformity rather than wanting people to understand communist theory.

What I got from it was an understanding of radicalism. The Chinese who would have seen the Party as good would certainly find this book as motivating in their ever increasing radicalism. If the communists can find such radicalism in a theory, why do Christians stay so lukewarm in the absolute truth? A communist can stop being a communist once he no longer believes the theory but a Christian cannot stop being a Christian unless they renounce the faith entirely. Why is it so easy for a theory to find radicalism but Christianity, a truly radical belief sees such little radicalism? Perhaps we should learn something from Mao in how he talks about poverty; in poverty you seek change. Christians thus are too comfortable when the early CCP were being persecuted by the authorities or starving from no food. It is comfort that is antithetic to radicalism. I would argue that this book does a good job at showing this radicalism but certainly not in the more eloquent or groundbreaking way Marx did in the Communist Manifesto.