Mao's Communism: A short histography.

-Tung (Zedong) can be viewed as being on the socio-political level with Marx, Engels, and Lenin. A kind of "genius-tactical-philosopher" but differing from his predicesors. The originality seen in Mao's thought and practice are quickly exemplified in his "Little Red Book": Quotations From Mao Tse-Tung. However, if the reader infers Mao's political ideology within the context of this limited source, a distorted imposition (perhaps planned by editor Lin Pao)(i-ix) presents itself and so, we …

…this material but honored the man with retaining the four tenet of guerilla warfare--If the enemy advances: we retreat. If the enemy halts: we harass. If the enemy tires:we attack. If the enemy retreats:we pursue. Mao was one of the peoples own. No other communist leader can claim with as much conviction that, while Lenin planned and executed the archetype of urban revolution, Mao formulated and carried out the archtype of rural revolution.