From International Herald Tribune:
If ever there was a believer in the power of the written word, it was a best- selling author and former librarian, Mao Zedong.
As Mao explained to an early chronicler of his life, Edgar Snow, “Three books especially deeply carved my mind, and built up in me a faith in Marxism, from which, once I had accepted it as the correct interpretation of history, I did not afterward waver.” Those books, he said, were a book about the history of socialism, a book about the history of class struggle and “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
According to the Marxist Internet Archive at www.marxists.org, an online community that produces and organizes an ever-growing Marxist library, the wheel has turned full circle.[Full Text]
