https://nitter.snopyta.org/mrsmcgee16/status/1376759119017742336?s=19

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Mao's "Oppose Book Worship" is a good take in that it encourages people to actually engage with and understand theory rather than just appealing to it as an absolute authority, but I don't know what the fuck this is trying to say.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Mao’s “Oppose Book Worship” is a good take

      frantically stuffs Little Red Book into back of pants, shame-faced

      I don’t know what the fuck this is trying to say

      I think it's akin to the old Gandhi line about liking Christ but hating the Christians. Although, it carries the ring of "No True Marxist" so heavily that it's basically gibberish.