Tse-tung Mao The Little Red Book Mao Tse-tung T...

The downfall of Lin Biao and the end of the Cultural Revolution brought an abrupt end to the worship of Mao and his quotation book. In recent years, the little red book has become a popular collectable item. But as a political reader, it has lost its old status.

Tse-tung Mao The Little Red Book Mao Tse-tung T...

During China's Great Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the famous Little Red Book, officially known as Quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong, was a must-have item for the Chinese. It is estimated that during those years altogether 5 billion copies of the collected Mao sayings were printed, which came in 500 different editions and 50 languages. Back then, the total world population was about 3 billion. So there was more than one and half a copy of the little red book for every inhabitant on earth.

Some brothers from the BPP came down hard on us for our lack of knowledge of revolutionary theory and history. They told us that if we wanted to call ourselves revolutionaries and call ourselves the WPP we would have to study and learn the language of revolution. That made sense to us and we finally started opening up our little Red Books (which up until that time we had just carried around with us as a fad) and started relating to its content. When we were all hippies in 1967 many of us had the I Ching, the book of Eastern Wisdom, to guide our lives from day to day. Now, sitting around stoned on grass or acid, reading the Red Book together, it seemed to us that the teachings of Mao Tse-tung were nothing but the wisdom of the I Ching put in a political context and made more usable. It blew our minds and made us check it out closer and closer.

Style: 4 (Classy & Well Done)Substance: 2 (Sparse)Slightly less communist ideology than in Mao Tse Tung's version, this Paranoia supplement is a neat little handout for GM's to issue to players. There's nothing new here but its more legal than photocopying large sections of the rulebook, and it comes in a shiny red cover with the words "Paranoia" on the front in large friendly letters.Neil Lennon has written 30 reviews, with average style of 4.10 and average substance of 3.43 The reviewer's previous review was of The Traitors Manual.The reviewer's next review is of Criminal Histories. 041b061a72