Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Foundational text of the Marxist tradition Mao inherits and adapts; comparing the Manifesto's argumentative structure with the Quotations' aphoristic compression reveals what happens when revolutionary doctrine moves from Europe to mass-peasant China

Cultural Revolution memoir documenting how the Little Red Book and its rhetorical apparatus functioned in the lived experience of Mao's victims

Earlier compendium of political-advisory aphorisms; Machiavelli wrote for princes while Mao's compilers wrote for peasant soldiers, but both produce compressed political guidance in short book form

The 'general will' and popular-sovereignty tradition Rousseau launched is the distant ancestor of Mao's 'mass line'; tracking the concept across two centuries illuminates both texts

Three-generation family memoir spanning pre-Revolutionary China through the Cultural Revolution; shows the Little Red Book's life cycle inside one Chinese family

Political-philosophical compendium by a single author offered as foundation for absolute sovereignty; Hobbes's prose rigor contrasts sharply with Mao's aphoristic compression, but both texts argue for undivided political authority