mao doesn't need translating, we get it

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	• On Practice and Contradiction (Revolutions) Mao Zedong Verso, 2007 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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mao doesn't need translating, we get it

the thoughts of Mao, were first of all a good place of political study, the Badiouian "Truth" moment'for it was the bridge to Third World revolutions, in SouthEast Asia, Phillipines, Burma,Mao thought Vietnam was the beginning to Washington's attack of China itself,no great political clarvoyance for the Helmsman; trouble also was Mao didn't know theory, he refused to comprehend contradiction,in its original Hegeliam formations,instead adopting the most naive, simplistic dimensions of dialectic; he simply utilized a hammer to crush the other side of negativity,hence study the failures of The Cultural Revolution, or the Great Leap Forwards,(which of course was Backwards monstrously) and if you read Zizek carefully he says this, Mao doesn't need to relish in the finer points of translation,we get it ! first all of his theoretical writings were for rhetorical affect, effect, for Chinese Party functionaries insiders,the upper echelons; the internal cadre, not intended for the great unwashed, the peasants;, there was another party line, so goes Stalinism which Mao practiced, there were lines and "other" lines always with a neurotic fear of all that exists; Badiou as well spends time with Mao's thought as a science, but only within his own theories of Event, Truth, which Mao etc,but not only Mao but the context of China for world revolution, you need to get away from all this infallibility paradigms, Mao's genius was in inverse relation to his overwhelming blindnesses,A Thousand Blindnesses, things he refused to comprehend, like the function of the state, and the role of the party in relation to it, and foreign affairs as well,and how peasant cadre functioned together. He could have takened advantage of closer ties with the Soviet Union,and the co-relation of forces to make China more powerful, a real world beacon to the Third World; instead it had to wait until Deng came to comprehend Mao's monstrous myopias and you get the authoritarian capitalism now in China eradicating worker lifeworld through brutal crackdowns and this system will now be exported to the Third World.Where's Mao's so-called genius within this context?? Zizek comprehends all this very well.

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In this dazzling new series, philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek interrogates key writings on revolution.

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer, which we use to crush the enemy."?Mao Zedong

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