The Role of the Collection of Quotes "Thoughts of Mao Zedong" in China's Foreign Policy

Collection "Thoughts of Mao Zedong" is a set of ideas based on the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism and summarizing the unique practical experience of the Chinese Communists, led by the most important representative of Mao Zedong in revolutionary and organizational building. The purpose of the article is to analyze the role of Mao Zedong Thought in Chinese politics, as well as the influence of Mao Zedong Thought on Chinese social and political processes.

The author focuses on the fact that the ideas of Mao Zedong, published as a collection of his quotes in 1966 in Beijing, despite the fact that most of them are a projection of the philosophy of Marxism, were originally of a fundamental nature and were successfully adapted by him in order to socialize the Chinese people, as well as bringing it to a new level of social development. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, there was a general erroneous tendency within the international communist movement and the Chinese Communist Party to dogmatize Marx's theory and worship the decisions of the Comintern and the experience of the Soviet Union as gods. The thought of Mao Zedong was formed and developed in the process of opposing this erroneous line of thought and in a deep generalization of historical experience in this area. Their systematization, multilateral development and maturity fell on the late period of the Agrarian Revolution and the period of the Anti-Japanese War. Further development continued during the Liberation War and after the formation of the People's Republic of China. Many prominent figures of the Communist Party of China contributed to the formation and development of these ideas. A separate line in this analysis shows under the influence of which factors these ideas were formed, by whom they were supported or distorted, and also what kind of ideological influence they had in building China's relations with the rest the world. It is concluded that Mao's ideas, but also their direct impact on China's policy. Mao Zedong left a legacy in which, for the first time in many years, the social idea of the self-identity of the Chinese nation could be realized, and new principles of coexistence were created that pushed the PRC to further development.