From: Santosh Gawai <gawaisan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:47 PM
Subject: Liberty/freedom of people is unacceptable to Mao
To: Palash Biswas <palashbiswaskl@gmail.com>
Respected Sir,
Liberalism is extreme]y harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.
Ibid., p. 32.
People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well - they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.
Ibid., pp. 32-33
The people's state protects the people. Only when the people have such a state can they educate and remold themselves by democratic methods on a country-wide scale, with everyone taking part, and shake off the influence of domestic and foreign reactionaries (which is still very strong, will survive for a long time and cannot be quickly destroyed), rid themselves of the bad habits and ideas acquired in the old society, not allow themselves to be led astray by the reactionaries, and continue to advance - to advance towards a socialist and communist society.
"On the People's Democratic Dictatorship" (June 30, 1949). Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 418.*
refer for more of such ill conceived ideas.....here
1 http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch24.htm
2 http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch32.htm
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