`The enemy advances, we retreat.
The enemy camps, we harass.
The enemy tires, we attack.`
"Six Principles of the Red Army":
- Put back all doors when you leave a house
- Rice-stalk mattresses must all be bundled up again and returned
- Be polite. Help people when you can.
- Give back everything you borrow, even if it’s only a needle.
- Pay for all things broken, even if only a chopstick.
- Don’t help yourself or search for things when people are not in their houses.
At the Community Party Congress in 1959, taking responsibility for that grand fiasco - the Great Leap Forward (1958-63) - which resulted in food shortages that led to the death of about 20m people:
"The chaos caused was on a grand scale, and I take responsibility. Comrades, you must all analyse your own responsibility. If you have to fart, fart. You will feel much better for it."
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LINKS
- Excerpts from the Little Red Book - http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Mao/Chairman-Mao-quotes.html
- Other Mao Quotations (BrainyQuote) - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/author/m/mao_zedong.html
- Great Leap Forward - http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/great_leap_forward.htm
- ThinkExist.com - http://thinkexist.com/quotes/mao_tse-tung/4.html
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