Ep 75: Toshi Yoshihara on Sun Tzu (New Makers of Modern Strategy #5)
School of War
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The Influence of Mao on the Chinese Civil War
Mao was first and foremost a Marxist Leninist. That was the ideological motive that drove him to pursue this revolutionary cause. He truly believed in this Marxist idea of class struggle, this teleological view of history. And so it seems to me that even Mao's own beliefs and behavior suggests again that this danger is of conflating Sun Zha's writing to Chinese strategic thought and behavior.
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