Sarah Paine

And this is not an endorsement of Mao.

It is rather just an accurate description of his global and enduring importance.

And think about China, historically it's represented

I don't know, a third of the world's population, a third of the world's trade.

That's a big slice of humanity.

Moreover, Mao's theories have been used by many enemies of the United States to take over failing states from within in order to assert dictatorial rule.

He is also probably the most brilliant and most famous psychopath in human history, and that is saying a lot, so here we go.

All right, this presentation is based on the first eight volumes of Stuart Schramm's collected works of Mao.

What Schramm did is he compared Mao's complete works as published in the 1950s to whatever he could find as the earliest version of whatever it was.

And then he reinserted whatever had been cut in italics.

So tonight watch the italics.

And Mao didn't put all of his best ideas in one place.

He scattered them all over the place.

And so what I've done is got to come for you all prepared like a jigsaw puzzle of all of these different ideas.

And then in order to make it comprehensible to you of all these random little tidbits,

You have to have like a coat rack to hang all the hangers, and that's called a simple framework, and I'll get there.

But in your own lives, when you've got all kinds of complicated things to transmit to others, you can look at what I'm doing tonight, and you can do it for other things as well.

So here we go with good old Mao, and oh, by the way, a lot of those 8,000, 7,000 pages weren't that interesting, so in a way you owe me.

All right, so...

All right, these are major military theorists, just to run you through them.