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Quick question; when it comes to building a party, forming a fledgling state, etc does China have corrections or revision on Mao thought or new publications on it? Or do they just refer you to Mao’s work?
The short answer is the CPC don’t treat Chairman Mao’s work as scripture, but they also don’t treat it as obsolete. It’s systematized, developed, and interpreted within later Party documents rather than “corrected” in the sense of being discarded. Chairman Mao’s writings remain foundational. Cadre education still assigns his major works on party building, mass line, protracted struggle, and contradiction. But the Party does not rely on raw historical texts alone when addressing contemporary state-building.
See also Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China and the 70/30 line on Chairman Mao.
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