Tuesday, February 22, 2011

BRUNO BOSTEELS - In the Shadow of Mao: Ricardo Piglia’s ‘Homenaje a

p.244

Maoism’s first innovation in respect of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy consists in having recognized the existence of internal contradictions in a socialist country even after the initial revolutionary period, and in having responded to this unexpected fact by proposing original tactics and strategies, in particular the famous mass line, the self-critique of the party as form, and the idea of intellectual re-education.

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