What Mao Zedong said about liberalism
Communism is a sociopolitical structure that aims for a classless and stateless society with the communal ownership of property.
Socialism is an economic and political theory based on public or common ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources.
Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis, "of freedom" is the belief in the importance of liberty and equality. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but most liberals support such fundamental ideas as constitutions, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, free trade, and the separation of church and state.
Most social scientists consider communism to be a political system while socialism is an economic system. Capitalism is to fascism is what socialism is to communism. In the real world, most country's have mixed economic systems that have both elements of capitalism and socialism.
Of interest, liberal ideas actually developed before conservative ideas.
Is liberalism like socialism and communism? The great Chinese leader, Mao Zedong, didn't think so.
Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension.
It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.Combat Liberalism" (7 September 1937), later quoted in Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book) (1964), Ch. 24.
. . . It (liberalism) robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strictdiscipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Partyorganizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely badtendency.
Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personalinterests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives riseto ideological, political and organizational liberalism.
People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstractdogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or topractice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism byMarxism.
These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism aswell--they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to othersbut liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find ause for each. This is how the minds of certain people work. Combat Liberalism, 1937
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