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Aug 18, 2013 · Both Mao Tse-Tung and Che Guevara had outsized impacts on the social, political and cultural landscape of the 20 th Century. They also made significant contributions to the field of irregular warfare.
Sep 23, 2018 · Che’s stages of guerilla conflict were similar to Mao’s but were much more in line with his own experiences in Cuba. Whereas Mao’s conflict was one that spanned decades, the Cuban revolution only took a few years.
Feb 27, 2021 · The results show that the framework of Mao Tse Tung, Vo Nguyen Giap, and Che Guevara about guerrilla warfare has its characteristics and perspectives.
- Tjandra Aribowo, Helda Risman
- 2020
Next, the transition to phase two, guerrilla warfare, armed struggle. In guerrilla warfare, attacks are carefully planned for heightened effect, but usually not for military purposes per se. Instead phase two revolutionaries are interested in using military force for political purposes.
- Discerning The Strategic Dynamics
- Maoist Thought Confronts Western Strategic Formulation
- The Concept of Universal Struggle
- Did Clausewitz Get There First?
- Political Power Grows Out of The Mind, Not The Gun
- Mind Control
- What Mao Should Be Remembered For
- Conclusion: Harnessing The Power of The Private Sphere
Although the notion of culture war is not new, its salience has heightened since 2016, and turned into actual violence in the United States and the UK in May/June 2020. The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the US city of Minneapolis was the immediate cause of the violence. Arguably, however, it was the long-term consequence and logic...
The principal difference in strategic approach resides in the Maoist conception of the self and its manipulation as a latent source of power. As Philip Short wrote: ‘Stalin cared about what his subjects did (or might do); Hitler, about who they were; Mao cared about what they thought’.[ii] How the mind could be moulded towards revolutionary ends wa...
In contrast, Mao sought control of the mind collectively and individually for the purposes of creating revolution. His strategic novelty in this respect resides in the challenge posed to notions of finality and completion in Western strategic discourse. For Mao, there was no endpoint, no single decisive victory, only endless struggle; a condition e...
Carl von Clausewitz is perhaps the one figure in the Western strategic tradition to challenge the notion of strategic completion. Clausewitz’s notion of the trinitarian theory is often associated far more with the ‘passions’ than the mind.[x] However, there are intimations, albeit somewhat inchoate, that he intuitively grasped the inherent power of...
Clausewitz’s reflections on the philosophical origins and purposes of war present intriguing parallels with Mao’s writings on the unity of opposites and the perpetual struggle between contradictions. It may be of some interest that there remains a continuing historical debate as to whether Mao might have read and been influenced by Clausewitz.[xiii...
Given Mao’s interest in unlocking the revolutionary potential of collective action, it followed that controlling the mind was the key to unleashing the power of mass resistance. Maoist ideas opened the strategic possibility of exerting control over the private sphere as a tool of struggle and revolt. Mao’s ruminations on how the interior world coul...
When analysts consider Mao’s contribution to strategic thought they tend to focus on his three-stage theory of people’s war to win power. Arguably, though, his most original and influential contribution lies in his understanding of the latent power that can be instrumentalised through mind control. As Apter and Saich state, Mao’s goal ‘was nothing ...
Obviously, the notion of culture wars and the impact of Mao’s thinking on contemporary political practices in the West is a vast subject, and at best one can only draw attention to its general contours in a brief essay such as this. This short article has therefore sought to illustrate how the all-pervasive thought and language policing within publ...
Apr 1, 2003 · The results show that the framework of Mao Tse Tung, Vo Nguyen Giap, and Che Guevara about guerrilla warfare has its characteristics and perspectives.
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Jun 7, 2023 · During the war against Batista, PSP leader Carlos Rafael Rodríguez went to the Sierra and let Che Mao’s On Guerrilla Warfare. Reflecting later, Che said that he admired Mao and copied his methods. “We have always looked up to Comrade Mao Tse-tung.
