Thursday, 23 October 2008

Mao Tse-Tung - What a worldview!

'Mao's attitude to morality consisted of one core, the self, 'I', above everything else: "I do not agree with the view that to be moral, the motive of one's action has to be benefiting others. Morality does not have to be defined in relation to others ... People like me want to ... satisfy our hearts to the full, and in doing so we automatically have the most valuable moral codes. Of course there are people and objects in the world, but they are all there only for me."
Mao shunned all constraints of responsibility and duty. "People like me only have a duty to ourselves; we have no duty to other people." "I am responsible only for the reality that I know," he wrote, "and absolutely not responsible for anything else. I don't know about the past, I don't know about the future. They have nothing to do with the reality of my own self ... I have my desire and act on it. I am responsible to no one."' (Jung Chang & Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story , p.13)

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