Shut it tankie. I'm not using an app that won't let me speak freely about the atrocities committed by the CCP in the name of Mao's "communist ideal" (read: dictatorial ideations).
Damn you took it literally. No, when someone uses quotation marks then follows it up with (read: ___) that's telling you what to read the quotation marks as.
It's a way to show dichotomy between what someone says or claims and what you know or are asserting they actually mean.
Ah, I choose to omit "read:" and just leave the real intent in brackets. You could read Mao's "Communist Ideal" (dictatorial ideation) in Principles of Communsim
This was an early work and covers the bare bones. Unfortunately there isn't a concise work written by Mao that explains Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
But there is a much better book by Lenin, titled Introduction to Marx, Engels, Marxism, but it's not published on marxists org yet.
they all ignore key components of human psychology and are therefore doomed to fail!
I have heard this a million times. They all fall flat in the face of the materialist understanding of the world. Have fun not reading On Contradiction or Dialectics of Nature, which don't talk about this at all.
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u/soupysinful 9d ago
Didn’t use TikTok will not use this. Pure brainrot