Mao Zedong Quotes


Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.


Citations

Mao, Zedong. "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War." Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, vol. 1, Foreign Languages Press, 1965, p. 189.

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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
  • Born: December 26, 1893
  • Died: September 9, 1976
  • Nationality: Chinese
  • Profession: Revolutionary, Statesman

Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism.