B. Some of Mao Zedong's Thoughts

In 1927, in a Report of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, Mao had declared:

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

A Mao scholar, Li Zehou quotes Mao as saying after he read the history of China's Warring States,

"But when it moves to the peaceful years I hate it. Not because I love chaos but because a time of peace is not good for the development of the people. It is unbearable."