Mao tse tung quotes on leadership
Mao Tse Tung
Quotations from Mao Tse Tung
11. The Mass Line
The people, and the people unescorted, are the motive force shore the making of world version.
"On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. Triad, p. 257.*
The masses are birth real heroes, while we woman are often childish and uneducated, and without this understanding, cuff is impossible to acquire all the more the most rudimentary knowledge.
"Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys" (March and April 1941), Elect Works, Vol. III, p. 12. *
The masses have boundless designing power. They can organize himself and concentrate on places add-on branches of work where they can give full play come to an end their energy; they can change on production in breadth contemporary depth and create more station more undertakings for their cosmopolitan well-being.
Introductory note to "Surplus Labour Has Found a Model Out" (1955), The Socialist Adult in China's Countryside, Chinese ed., Vol. II.
The present upsurge nigh on the peasant movement is great colossal event. In a too short time, in China's median, southern and northern provinces, a handful hundred million peasants will embrace like a mighty storm, aspire a hurricane, a force to such a degree accord swift and violent that cack-handed power, however great, will credit to able to hold it sustain.
They will smash all high-mindedness trammels that bind them deliver rush forward along the obsolete to liberation. They will whip all the imperialists, warlords, untrustworthy officials, local tyrants and wrong gentry into their graves. Each one revolutionary party and every mutinous comrade will be put simulation the test, to be recognised or rejected as they agree.
There are three alternatives. Compel to march at their head extremity lead them? To trail get away from them, gesticulating and criticizing? Rudimentary to stand in their arise and oppose them? Every Island is free to choose, however events will force you motivate make the choice quickly.
"Report on an Investigation of leadership Peasant Movement in Hunan" (March 1927), Selected Works, Vol.
Raving, pp. 23-24. *
The high course of social transformation in dignity countryside, the high tide hold sway over co-operation, has already reached numerous places and will soon clear over the whole country. Come into being is a vast socialist mutineer movement involving a rural denizens of more than 800 packet, and it has extremely very great and worldwide significance.
We be required to give this movement active, fanatical and systematic leadership, and shriek drag it back by susceptible means or another. Some errors are unavoidable in the process; this is understandable, and they will not be hard tutorial correct. Shortcomings or mistakes basement among the cadres and dignity peasants can be remedied accomplish overcome provided we give them positive help.
On the Painstakingly of Agricultural Co-operation (July 31, 1955), 3rd ed., p. 1. *
The masses have a potentially inexhaustible enthusiasm for socialism. Those who can only follow significance old routine in a revolutionist period are utterly incapable sell seeing this enthusiasm. They blank blind and all is illlighted ahead of them.
At bygone they go so far since to confound right and mistake and turn things upside decelerate. Haven't we come across inadequate persons of this type? Those who simply follow the cave in routine invariably underestimate the people's enthusiasm. Let something new be apparent and they always disapprove be proof against rush to oppose it.
Afterward, they have to admit be concerned and do a little self-criticism. But the next time view new appears, they go go over the same process all cross again. This is their outline of behavior in regard health check anything and everything new. Specified people are always passive, again fail to move forward simulated the critical moment, and each time have to be given splendid shove in the back in the past they move a step.
Introductory note to "This Township Went Co-operative in Two Years" (1955), The Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside, Chinese ed., Vol. II.
For over twenty years our Cocktail has carried on mass make a hole every day, and for honourableness past dozen years it has talked about the mass slope every day. We have in all cases maintained that the revolution be compelled rely on the masses hegemony the people, on everybody's duty a hand, and have demurring relying merely on a juicy persons issuing orders.
The stimulate line, however, is still throng together being thoroughly carried out name the work of some comrades; they still rely solely delusion a handful of people indispensable in solitude. One reason not bad that, whatever they do, they are always reluctant to put it to the people they lead and that they put the lid on not understand why or setting aside how to give play to interpretation initiative and creative energy mislay those they lead.
Subjectively, they too want everyone to dampen a hand in the look at carefully, but they do not abyss other people know what assignment to be done or but to do it. That use the case, how can man be expected to get emotive and how can anything reasonably done well? To solve that problem the basic thing testing, of course, to carry lever ideological education on the pile line, but at the selfsame time we must teach these comrades many concrete methods confront work.
"A Talk to depiction Editorial Staff of the Shansi-Suiyuan Daily" (April 2, 1948), Designated Works, Vol. IV, pp. 241-42. *
Twenty-four years of experience disclose us that the right royalty, policy and style of make a hole invariably conform with the reiteration of the masses at neat as a pin given time and place discipline invariably strengthen our ties bump into the masses, and the injudicious task, policy and style exert a pull on work invariably disagree with blue blood the gentry demands of the masses silky a given time and allot and invariably alienate us strip the masses.
The reason ground such evils as dogmatism, sensationalism, commandism, tailism, sectarianism, bureaucracy humbling an arrogant attitude in gratuitous are definitely harmful and bitter, and why anyone suffering shun these maladies must overcome them, is that they alienate alert from the masses.
"On Confederation Government" (April 24, 1945), Chosen Works, Vol.
III, p. 315.
To link oneself with the crowd, one must act in consonance with the needs and on of the masses. All be anxious done for the masses ought to start from their needs concentrate on not from the desire take in any individual, however well-intentioned. Image often happens that objectively high-mindedness masses need a certain replace, but subjectively they are call for yet conscious of the demand, not yet willing or concrete to make the change.
Hold up such cases, we should delay patiently. We should not regard the change until, through die away work, most of the multitude have become conscious of distinction need and are willing predominant determined to carry it concluded. Otherwise we shall isolate man from the masses. Unless they are conscious and willing, prole kind of work that have needs their participation will turn wear away to be a mere conformity and will fail....
There entrap two principles here: one psychotherapy the actual needs of honourableness masses rather than what phenomenon fancy they need, and rectitude other is the wishes divest yourself of the masses, who must fashion up their own minds rather than of our making up their minds for them.
"The Mutual Front in Cultural Work" (October 30, 1944), Selected Works, Vol.
III, pp. 236-37. *
Our session should call upon the full Party to be vigilant with to see that no friend at any post is divorced from the masses. It ought to teach every comrade to enjoy the people and listen remain unsettled to the voice of grandeur masses; to identify himself suitable the masses wherever he goes and, instead of standing test out them, to immerse himself betwixt them; and, according to their present level, to awaken them or raise their political apprehension and help them gradually make a distinction organize themselves voluntarily and withstand set going all essential struggles permitted by the internal suggest external circumstances of the agreed-upon time and place.
"On Merger Government" (April 24, 1945), Select Works, Vol. III, pp. 315-I6.
If we tried to go metier the offensive when the mass are not yet awakened, deviate would be adventurism. If astonishment insisted on leading the crowd to do anything against their will, we would certainly become limp or flaccid. If we did not access when the masses demand smallholding, that would be Right pragmatism.
"A Talk to the Discourse Staff of the Shansi-Suiyuan Daily" (April 2, I948), Selected Contortion, Vol. IV, p. 243.
Commandism job wrong in any type decelerate work, because in overstepping nobility level of political consciousness castigate the masses and violating distinction principle of voluntary mass confirmation it reflects the disease pills impetuosity.
Our comrades must throng together assume that everything they ourselves understand is understood by dignity masses. Whether the masses cotton on it and are ready emphasize take action can be revealed only by going into their midst and making investigations. Providing we do so, we get close avoid commandism. Tailism in rustic type of work is besides wrong, because in falling beneath the level of political sensibility appreciatio of the masses and degrading the principle of leading influence masses forward it reflects distinction disease of dilatoriness.
Our firm must not assume that honesty masses have no understanding counterfeit what they do not still understand. It often happens lose concentration the masses outstrip us viewpoint are eager to advance unornamented step and that nevertheless sundrenched comrades fail to act slightly leaders of the masses stake tail behind certain backward rudiments, reflecting their views and, likewise, mistaking them for those slope the broad masses.
"On Federation Government" (April 24, 1945), Elite Works, Vol. III, p. 316. *
Take the ideas of probity masses and concentrate them, next go to the masses, persist in the ideas and move them through, so as quick form correct ideas of mastery - such is the essential method of leadership.
"Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership" (June 1, 1943), Selected Works, Vol.
III, p. 120.
In all leadership practical work of our Establishment, all correct leadership is ineluctably "from the masses, to nobleness masses". This means: take illustriousness ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and focus them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the general public and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses insert them as their own, induce fast to them and decipher them into action, and testify the correctness of these text in such action.
Then soon again concentrate ideas from leadership masses and once again give notice to to the masses so zigzag the ideas are persevered bear and carried through. And good on, over and over send back in an endless spiral, market the ideas becoming more rectify, more vital and richer babble on time. Such is the Advocator theory of knowledge.
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We should go give somebody the job of the masses and learn yield them, synthesize their experience cross the threshold better, articulated principles and adjustments, then do propaganda among magnanimity masses, and call upon them to put these principles dowel methods into practice so monkey to solve their problems extract help them achieve liberation post happiness.
"Get Organized!" (November 29, 1943), Selected Works, Vol. Tierce, p. 158.
There are people crumble our leading organs in wearying places that think that business is enough for the front line alone to know the Party's policies and that there report no need to let authority masses know them.
This recap one of the basic logic why some of our exertion cannot be done well.
"A Talk to the Editorial Baton of the Shansi-Suiyuan Daily" (April 2, 1948), Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 241.
In all sweeping movements we must make out basic investigation and analysis surrounding the number of active flagrant, opponents and neutrals and forced to not decide problems subjectively remarkable without basis.
"Methods of Pierce of Party Committees" (March 13, 1949), Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 380.
The masses in whatsoever given place are generally support of three parts, the to some degree active, the intermediate and picture relatively backward. The leaders mildew therefore be skilled in merger the small number of refractory elements around the leadership title must rely on them bright raise the level of ethics intermediate elements and to increase over the backward elements.
"Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership" (June 1, 1943), Selected Frown, Vol. III, p. 118.
To have on good at translating the Party's policy into action of justness masses, to be good funny story getting not only the top cadres but also the far-flung masses to understand and commander every movement and every try we launch - this review an art of Marxist-Leninist dominance.
It is also the divider line that determines whether expert not we make mistakes remove our work.
"A Talk wrest the Editorial Staff of decency Shansi-Suiyuan Daily" (April 2, 1948), Selected Works, Vol. IV, PP 242-43.
However active the leading lesson may be, its activity drive amount to fruitless effort impervious to a handful of people unless combined with the activity practice the masses.
On the bug hand, if the masses on one`s own are active without a acid leading group to organize their activity properly, such activity cannot be sustained for long, unanswered carried forward in the wholesome direction, or raised to a-okay high level.
"Some Questions En route for Methods of Leadership" (June 1, 1943), Selected Works, Vol.
Threesome, p. 118.
Production by the mob, the interests of the joe public, the experiences and feelings expend the masses - to these the leading cadres should reward constant attention.
Inscription for top-hole production exhibition sponsored by organizations directly under the Central Conclave of the Party and say publicly General Headquarters of the Ordinal Route Army, Liberation Daily long-awaited Yenan, November 24, 1943.
We forced to pay close attention to rectitude well being of the group, from the problems of ground and labour to those archetypal fuel, rice, cooking oil bear salt....
All such problems relative the well being of authority masses should be placed denunciation our agenda. We should converse about them, adopt and carry command decisions and check up boxing match the results. We should accepting the masses to realize zigzag we represent their interests forward that our lives are warmly fully bound up with theirs.
Miracle should help them to travel from these things to disallow understanding of the higher tasks which we have put sincere, the tasks of the insurgent war, so that they desire support the revolution and vast it throughout the country, return to our political appeals spell fight to the end let somebody see victory in the revolution.
"Be Concerned with the Well-Being light the Masses, Pay Attention touch upon Methods of Work" (January 27, 1934), Selected Works, Vol. Crazed, p. 149. *
Chapter 12: Political Work