Those attitudes have helped make the five volumes of “The Selected Works of Mao Zedong” popular again. Photos of fashionably dressed young people reading the books on subways, at the airports and in cafes are circulating online. Many social media users like to quote the first sentence of the first volume. Who are our friends?” Mao wrote in 1925. “This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.”Many say their biggest enemies are the capitalists who exploit them.

Source: New York Times July 08, 2021 09:01 UTC