Inspired by Mao Tsetung and Learning the Truth About Communism

The Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund (PRLF) sent Revolution the following letter from a prisoner.

Greetings from the Texas gulag! I want to thank you so much for the Revolution article, the TRUE story of Mao Tsetung and the communist revolution in China [this article ran as a two-part series in Revolution #140 and #141]. It seems to me, the greatest aspirations a socially conscious person can have is uncompromising dedication to the liberation of all humanity. In comparison, all other goals are mean and petty, based on selfishness and vanity. The article made it abundantly clear Mao Tsetung was a People’s hero, and a living embodiment of those high-minded aspirations. He most definitely was not driven by ego or a desire for self-aggrandizement; he was neither a clotheshorse, not did he desire the limelight. What a wonderful inspiration! What a wonderful person to use as a guiding principle!

What little I’ve been able to learn about Marx and Lenin has been slanderous and disparaging, but if Mao Tsetung saw them as worthy of serious consideration and study, that’s a good enough endorsement for me. After all, he dedicated his entire life to overthrow tyranny; it makes no sense he would use tyrants as his inspiration!

So much lies and disinformation has been spread concerning communism—with even the oppressive capitalist-imperialists playing along with the farce to further their own selfish agenda—that even otherwise well educated and informed persons have been systematically conditioned to believe communism equals tyranny, loss of liberty, loss of freedom of expression and dissent, and impoverishment, when just the opposite is true!

The Revolutionary Communist Party is struggling against a rigged and crooked game in which the House makes all the rules. It’s a colossal struggle and the odds of winning aren’t good, but people are amazingly resilient and prone to perceive the truth when it’s finally presented to them, as your newspaper so admirably does. Besides, what’s the alternative?

Yours in the struggle for peace and justice in a Genuine Communist World,

XXX

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