Leadership Lessons From the Great Books – On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse -Tung

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Hello. My name is Jesan Sorrells, and this is the Leadership

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Lessons from the Great Books podcast, episode number

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128. The

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journalist Walter Durante once quipped that, quote, in

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order to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs, unquote.

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Duranty was, of course, talking about the efforts of the Russian

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strongman known as Stalin to remake the Soviets

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in his own image, But Duranty

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didn’t realize, of course, at the time that the ultimate egg breaker of the

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20th century would ascend the feudal and colonial

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peasantry, one of the largest countries on the planet.

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We cannot think about the nature of warfare in the 20th century without considering the

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nature of revolutionary struggle and, of course,

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guerrilla warfare. After all, revolution and resistance

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go together. One follows the other, and

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political power comes out of the end of a gun.

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The long and tragic story of the post World War 1 20th century

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is partially one of vast static armies seeking to

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crush a people’s led rebellion to advance political

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aims. And in reaction and response, the other

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side of that story features small bands of jihadists,

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terrorists, revolutionaries, and guerrillas formed

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almost organically, it would seem, to oppose

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those large army’s goals.

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I have said in previous episodes that, quote unquote, the enemy gets a

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vote, and the enemy does. But the inevitable and

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unstated pushback to this idea is that somehow the level or

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the degree of resistance to the use of

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mass inflections of political and military power must

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somehow match the level, size, and force of the power wielded

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unjustly in order to be considered legitimate.

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This is a fatally faulty understanding that leaves the door open

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to the granular seat of resistance being planted,

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watered, and grown. It

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turned out, against all odds, that in the 20th century

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small resistance, small pushbacks, and small power

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mattered quite a bit. And the person,

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the individual, the, titular leader who understood

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this fact innately and leveraged this fact to secure

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himself long term political power over the lives of almost

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900,000,000 souls in one of the most populous countries on the

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planet is the book who is the

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person who wrote the book we are covering today

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on the podcast. Today,

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we will be pulling. We will be extracting. We will be, dare I

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say, in a guerrilla fashion, running

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after the leadership lessons

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for leaders in the 21st century,

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from one of the greatest political leaders of the 20th century

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on guerrilla warfare by

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Mao Zedong.

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Leaders, to engage successfully in guerrilla

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operations, you must articulate as a happy

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warrior a coherent, and some

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would say revolutionary, vision

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of the future. And we pick

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up from Mao Zedong on Guerrilla Warfare.

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The version that I have is translated and with an introduction by

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Brigadier General Samuel b Griffith, United States Marine

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Corps retired. Looks as though he,

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wrote 2 introductions to, to this book.

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We will not be covering the introduction. Instead, we’re

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gonna jump right into what

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is guerrilla warfare.

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And I quote, in a war of revolutionary character, guerrilla

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operations are a necessary part. This is particularly true in a

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war waged for the emancipation of a people who would have an assassination. China is

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such a nation, a nation whose techniques are undeveloped and whose communications

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are poor. She finds herself confronted with a strong and

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victorious Japanese imperialism. Under these

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circumstances, the development of the type of guerrilla warfare characterized by the quality of

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mass is both necessary and natural.

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This warfare must be developed to an unprecedented degree and it must coordinate with the

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operations of our regular armies. If we fail to do this, we will

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find it difficult to defeat the enemy.

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These guerrilla operations must not be considered as an independent form of warfare. They are

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but one step in the total war, one aspect of the

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revolutionary struggle. They are the inevitable result of the clash

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between oppressor and oppressed when the latter reaches the limits of their endurance.

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In our case, these hostilities began at a time when the

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people were unable to endure any more from the Japanese imperialists.

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Lenin, the people in revolution, said, quote, a people’s

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insurrection and a people’s revolution are not only natural but inevitable,

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close quote. We consider guerrilla operations as but

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one aspect of our total or mass war because they, lacking the

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quality of independence, are of themselves incapable of providing a

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solution to the struggle.

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Guerrilla warfare has qualities and objectives peculiar to itself. It is a

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weapon that a nation inferior in arms and military equipment may employ

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against a more powerful aggressor nation. When the invader pierces

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deep into the heart of the weaker country and occupies her

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territory in cruel and oppressive manner, there is no doubt

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that conditions of terrain, climate, and society in general

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offer obstacles to his progress and may be used to advantage by those who

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oppose him. In guerrilla warfare, we turn these advantages to the

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purpose of resisting and defeating the enemy.

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During the progress of hostilities, guerrillas gradually develop into orthodox

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forces that operate in conjunction with other units of the regular

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army. Thus, the regularly organized

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troops, those guerrillas who have attained that status, and those who have

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not reached that level of development combine to form the military

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power of a national revolutionary war.

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There can be no doubt that the ultimate result of

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this will be victory.

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When we think about revolutionary characters, when

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we think about people who lead revolutions,

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we should be thinking about Mao

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Zedong rather than Lenin or even Stalin.

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Mao Zedong, born December 26, 1993, died

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September 9, 1976, also known as Chairman

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Mao, was a Chinese politician,

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revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People’s Republic of

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China, the PRC, and led the country from its establishment in

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1949 until his death in 1976.

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Mao was the son of a peasant raised in Shaoshan Hunan

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and, apparently his father was rather

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brutal with him, demanding that he get an

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appropriate education, which he, of

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course, did. Now

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being born in 18/93, there was a lot of things happening in East

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Asia, boxer rebellions, and, of course, the

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aftermath of World War 1. And,

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he, went to Peking University. And while working as

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a librarian at Peking University, he adopted

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Marxism Lex Marxist Leninism, and in

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1921 became a founding member of the Chinese Communist

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Party. He helped establish the Chinese Red

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Army as first in opposition to the,

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to the nationalist, the Comintag, but then later

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on in opposition to the Japanese imperialists. This

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is the perspective that he wrote, on guerrilla warfare

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from. But then after the war was over

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in the 19 forties, he turned his revolutionary

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army onto the Comatog and drove them

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out to the island of Taiwan.

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By the way, that’s gonna come back later to haunt us.

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He helped establish the, the the

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Chinese Red Army as a result, as I already said, and he developed a

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coherent and principled we’ll talk more about principles

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today as well, but a coherent and principled strategy, of

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guerrilla warfare. He laid it all out.

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Now with that being said, chairman Mao, it must be

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acknowledged, did lead China

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through the tumultuous middle part of the 20th century.

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Everything from great famines and great purges

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all the way to the little red book

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and, quite a few struggle sessions. His

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policies were responsible for a vast number of deaths. Close

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to 100,000,000 people died at his hands, or because

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of the ways in which policies that

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he advocated for were carried out by his henchmen.

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These people were victims of starvation, persecution,

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prison labor, mass executions, and, of course,

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famine. The Great Leap Forward,

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couldn’t have happened without there

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being enough bread to go around.

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Chairman Mao’s regime was totalitarian, and just like

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Stalin before him and Lenin before him,

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Mao Zedong was a totalizing force. He was

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principled, but he was totalizing.

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Everything bowed to him, and even these days

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in China, if you go and you read the Wikipedia

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article, which I pulled the majority of the information that I

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have from here today, from, If

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you go and read the Wikipedia article on him, you will discover

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that modern Chinese folks, the modern

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Chinese Communist Party, the modern

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CCP, struggles with

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Mao Zedong’s legacy. Yeah.

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He, just like Stalin with Russia, he jerked the

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Chinese out of peasantry and feudalism and into

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the 20th century, but he had to kill a lot of people in

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order to do it, and he had to be a man of

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iron principle during a time when the

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United States and the Russians, well,

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almost came to blows during that thing that we

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all forget that occurred in the middle of the 20th century

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called the Cold War. There’s a

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lesson here for leaders about principles. There’s a lesson here for

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leaders about strategy. There’s a lesson here for leaders about

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innovation. But if you get all caught up in the totalitarian

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nature of it you will miss the lesson. And don’t get me wrong,

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I’m not in favor of tyranny, but I am in favor of

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learning from everything

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and everybody. Back to the book, back to

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on guerrilla warfare. We’re going to pick it up

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with a discussion or chairman Mao’s

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I shouldn’t say chairman Mao Zedong’s positions,

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on guerrilla warfare in history.

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And I quote, guerrilla warfare is neither a product of China nor peculiar

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to the present day. From the earliest historical days, it has been a feature of

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wars fought by every class of men against invaders and oppressors.

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Under suitable conditions, it has great possibilities. The many

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guerrilla wars in history have their points of difference, their peculiar characteristics,

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their varying processes and conclusions, and we must respect and profit by the experience

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of those whose blood was shed in them. What a pity it

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is that the priceless experience gained during the several 100 wars waged by the peasants

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of China cannot be marshaled today to guide us. Our only experience at guerrilla

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hostilities has been that gained from the several conflicts that have been carried on against

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us by foreign imperialisms. But that experience should help the fighting

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Chinese recognize the necessity for guerrilla warfare and should

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confirm them in confidence of ultimate victory.

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In September 18 12, the Frenchman Napoleon, in the course of swallowing all of

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Europe, invaded Russia at the head of a great army totaling several 100,000

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infantry cavalry and artillery. At that time, Russia was weak

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and her ill prepared army was not concentrated. The most important phase of her

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strategy was the use made of Cossack cavalry and detachments of peasants to

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carry on guerrilla operations. After giving up Moscow, the

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Russians formed 9 guerrilla divisions of about 500 men each. These

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and the vast groups of organized peasants carried on partisan

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warfare and continually harassed the French army. When the

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French army was withdrawing, cold and starving, Russian guerrillas blocked the way and, in

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combination with regular troops, carried out counter attacks on the French rear, pursuing

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and defeating them. The army of the heroic Napoleon was

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almost entirely annihilated and the guerrillas captured many officers,

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men, cannon, and rifles. Though the victory was the result of various factors and

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depended largely on the activities of the regular army, the function of the partisan

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groups was extremely important. Quote, the

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corrupt and poorly organized country that was Russia defeated and destroyed an army led by

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the most famous soldier of Europe and won the war in spite of the

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fact that her ability to organize guerrilla regimes was not fully developed. At

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times, guerrilla groups were hindered in their operations and the supply of equipment in

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arms was insufficient. If we use the Russian saying, it

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was a case of a battle between, quote, the fist and the ax,

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close quote, Ivanov.

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From 1918 to 1920, the Russian Soviets, because of the opposition and

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intervention of foreign imperialisms and the internal disturbances of white Russian

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groups, were forced to organize themselves in occupied territories and fight a

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real war. In Siberia and Alishan, in the rear of the

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army of the traitor Denikin, and in the rear of the Poles, there are many

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red Russian guerrillas. These not only

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disrupted and destroyed the communications in the enemy’s rear, but also frequently prevented

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his advance. On one occasion, the guerrillas completely destroyed a

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retreating white army that had previously been defeated by regular red forces.

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Kolchak, Denikin, the Japanese, and the Poles owing to the necessity of staving

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off the attacks of guerrillas were forced to

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withdraw regular troops from the front. Quote, thus not only was the

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enemy’s power impoverished but he found himself unable to cope with the ever moving

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guerrilla, close quote, the nature of guerrilla action.

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The development of guerrillas at that time had only reached the stage where

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there were detached groups of several 1,000 in strength, old, middle aged and

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young. The old men organized themselves into propaganda groups known

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as silver haired units. There was a suitable guerrilla activity for the

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middle aged. The young men formed combat units and there were even groups for the

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children. Among the leaders were determined communists who carried

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on general political work among the people. These, although they opposed

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the doctrine of extreme guerrilla warfare, were quick to oppose those who condemned it.

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Experience tells us that, quote, orthodox armies are the fundamental and

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principal power. Guerrilla units are secondary to them and assist in the

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accomplishment of the mission assigned to the regular forces, close

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quote. Lessons of the Civil War in Russia.

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Many of the guerrilla regimes in Russia, gradually

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developed until, in battle, they were able to discharge functions of organized

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regulars. The army of the famous General Galen was entirely

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derived from guerrillas. During the 7

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months in 1935 and 36, the Abyssinians lost their war

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against Italy. The cause of defeat, aside from the most important

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political reasons that there were dissented political groups, no

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strong government party, and unstable policy, was a

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failure to adopt a positive policy

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of mobile warfare.

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Mao, in describing guerrilla warfare in history, of

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course, talks about the French army’s

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retreat from the Russian steppes during the Napoleonic

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wars, and, of course, ends his analysis with

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this quote. If we use the Russian saying, it

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was the case of a battle between the fist

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and the ax.

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Guerrilla strategy, whether it is guerrilla strategy applied

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to entrepreneurship and startups or guerrilla strategy applied

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to established organizations. Any type of strategy,

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that is based in overcoming an incumbent

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and in overthrowing their long held chivalis

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and rules and ways of, quote, unquote, doing things.

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Any strategy that is put forth in a guerrilla manner or

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executed in the form of guerrilla tactics,

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Any strategy relies on alertness, mobility, and

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attack. The gorilla must be alert to the

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conditions on the ground, both geographic, but

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also economic, social, political, and, of

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course, spiritual. The gorilla must be

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able to move. The gorilla must not be tied

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down to a particular place or even to a particular set of

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ideas. And the gorilla is always

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attacking. Mau noted this. He said

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the gorilla is always attacking from the rear.

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Gorilla’s strategy relies on adaptability, innovation,

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and it also relies on a

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hyper level of skin in the game that tends to

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defy and flummox mature systems.

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Guerrilla warfare, All guerrilla warfare is typically based on the

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attaining of political power. Not necessarily

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theological power or social power or cultural power,

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but political power. Because most of the purveyors

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of guerrilla warfare, most of the individuals who engage in guerrilla

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warfare are attempting

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to create political change via other

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means. In many

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ways, the tip towards the tyrannical use of power to

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control other people and ensure compliance is always just

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there on the other side of the revolutionary

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Elon and the really drab and

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dour uniforms. It is

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that compliance that you need in order to get people to,

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well, to fight and to die for you. From the silver haired

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brigade all the way to the children, Everyone is armed.

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Everyone participates. Guerrilla warfare

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and the overall guerilla strategy has to involve

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mass, which is what Mao started with in on

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guerrilla warfare. Mass

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though does not necessarily mean large. Mass does not necessarily

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mean huge. And that’s where we get confused because we think

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mass, we think a lot of people. But guess what?

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If I wanted to overthrow the country or if I

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just wanted to overthrow your business, I wouldn’t need a

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whole bunch of people. Matter of fact, if I really wanted to start some

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problems at Google or Facebook or John

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Deere or Toyota or Ford

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or even SpaceX, all I would need is a

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really dedicated group of

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like minded individuals with low numbers.

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Leaders need to understand that you don’t need

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all of these, to paraphrase the comedian Joey Diaz,

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motherfuckers out here in order to get shit

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done. Leaders need to understand

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that all you need is the impact of a historical vision

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of where you like to go. You need revolutionary elan for

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sure, and you need to keep that level of emotional

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engagement at a high level. But you really don’t need all these people. You

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just need the dedicated few, The proud,

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to paraphrase from another segment of our

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American military, you need the marines.

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But you need to apply that thinking to guerrilla

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strategy and guerrilla tactics in

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guerrilla warfare. When you lead this

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way, when you lead,

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when you lead through understanding the impact of history

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on your vision, you will not have a disembodied vision. You will have a

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vision that actually works. You will have

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people who will be excited to kill the enemy, who will be

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excited to lean forward into business. They will be

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excited to stay long nights and do hard things.

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And when you lead this way, you will be leading with your fists.

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And leading with your fists, well, you don’t

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actually have to win the battle with the ax. You just

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have to knock it out of the other guy’s hand. Back to the

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book, back to on Guerrilla Warfare

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by Mao Zedong. We’re gonna pick

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up in a long chapter.

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Chapter 1, what is guerrilla warfare? We’re going to we’re gonna pick up with

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some ideas here that, I think you need to have.

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And I quote, in guerrilla warfare, slick the tactic of

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seeming to come from the east and attacking from the west. Avoid the

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solid, attack the hollow, attack, withdraw, deliver a lightning

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blow, seek a lightning decision. When gorillas

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engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops,

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strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws. In gorilla’s strategy,

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the enemy’s rear flanks and other vulnerable spouts are his vital

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points. And there, he must be harassed, attacked,

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dispersed, exhausted, and annihilated. Only in this way can

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gorillas carry out their mission of independent guerrilla action and coordination

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with the effort of the regular armies. But in spite of

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the most complete preparation, there could be no victory if mistakes are made in the

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matter of command. Guerrilla warfare, based on the

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principles we have mentioned and carried on over a vast extent of territory in

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which communications are inconvenient, will contribute tremendously towards ultimate

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defeat of the Japanese and consequent emancipation of the Chinese people.

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A careful distinction must be made between 2 types of guerrilla warfare. The

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fact that revolutionary guerrilla warfare is based on the masses of the people does not

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in itself mean that the organization of guerrilla units is impossible in a

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war of counterrevolutionary character. The

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second type of guerrilla warfare directly contradicts the law of historical

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development. If we fail to differentiate between the two types of guerrilla

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hostilities mentioned, it is likely that we will exaggerate their effect when

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applied by an invader. We might arrive at the conclusion that, quote, the invader

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can organize guerrilla units from among the people, close quote. Such a

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conclusion might well diminish our confidence in guerrilla warfare.

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As far as this matter is concerned, we have but to remember the historical

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experiences of revolutionary struggles. Further,

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we must distinguish general revolutionary wars from those of a purely, quote, unquote,

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class type. In the former case, the whole people of a nation without regard to

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class or party carry on a guerrilla struggle that is an instrument of the national

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policy. Its basis is therefore much broader than is the

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basis of a struggle of class type. Of a general guerrilla war, it has been

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said, quote, when a nation is invaded and the

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people become sympathetic to one another and all aid in organizing guerrilla

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units, in civil war, no matter to who to what extent

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guerrillas are developed, they do not produce the same results as when they are

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formed to resist an invasion by foreigners. Civil war in

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Russia. Close quote. The one strong

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feature of guerrilla warfare in a civil struggle

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is its equality of internal purity.

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One class may be easily united and perhaps fight with great effect, whereas in a

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national revolutionary war, guerrilla units are faced with the problem of internal

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unification of different class groups. This necessitates the use

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of propaganda. Both types of guerrilla

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war are, however, similar in that they both employ the same

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military methods. Now let me move a little bit further

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forward in this chapter. If in today’s struggle, we fail to apply the

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historical truths of revolutionary guerrilla war, we will fall into the error of believing

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with Tao Hu saying that under the impact of Japanese mechanized

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army, quote, the guerilla unit has lost its historical function, close

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quote. Jane Shishan writes, in olden days, guerilla

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warfare was just part of regular strategy, but there’s almost no chance that it could

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be applied today. These opinions are harmful. If we do not make

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an estimate of the characteristics peculiar to our anti Japanese guerrilla

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war, but insist on applying it to mechanical formulas derived

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from past history, we are making the mistake of placing our hostilities in the same

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category as all other national guerrilla struggles. If we hold

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this view, we will simply be beating our heads against the stone wall and we

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will be unable to profit from gorilla

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hostilities.

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You gotta innovate in business like you’re a

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gorilla or pirate or in

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leadership in general. Look, gorillas and pirates,

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have many things in common as we can see from that last

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clip we just read. They have the ability to rely on

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the failure of established incumbents to move quickly, break things, and

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take risks. Gorillas and pirates don’t care about

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history or the historical dialectic either.

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They don’t care about what came before. They only care

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about taking risks. As we know,

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innovation is the most overused word in business and

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leadership, and innovation really only matters if you’re a gorilla willing to

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break the bounds of approaches, forms, and even,

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well, even break the bounds of rebellion itself.

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This is why incumbents from politics to

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business, from finance to family,

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don’t like it when things change, don’t like it when a gorilla comes

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in and becomes the

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vanguard of a revolution.

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I love this quote from Vladimir Lenin, evil does not exist in

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guerrilla warfare but only in the unorganized and undisciplined activities that

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are anarchism are anarchism.

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He would probably say anarchism. Point is, and Lyndon was

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correct, it is that lack of organization. It is that lack of

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discipline that kills guerrilla leadership. It kills

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gorillas forward momentum. See,

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incumbents think that a gorilla, that a person

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coming in who is doing the things that a gorilla

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does, that is overthrowing the established

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system, they think that that person is undisciplined, unorganized,

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or even unfocused.

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That is the failure of the incumbents.

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That’s the failure of incumbents to even think

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about what is happening. They

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don’t understand. They don’t appreciate.

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And, invariably, they are

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overthrown.

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The biggest challenge that gorillas represent is a

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challenge of delivering chaos. It’s the challenge of

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taking risks to overthrow an incumbent, and it’s the challenge of doing it in a

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way where the incumbent is completely and totally taken

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by surprise. We saw this most recently

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in the, in the most recent

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presidential elections in the United States, but

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we also have seen it in a lot of other places. We’ve

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seen it in entrepreneurship, and we’ve seen it in the course of the

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last 25 years in the

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start up community. Pirates are

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organized and disciplined. They take risks. They overthrow

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incumbents. Gorillas are organized and disciplined.

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But gorillas and pirates differ in one very key way.

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Gorillas make sure to use propaganda. They use messaging to ensure

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that everyone stays in line. Remember that whole ensuring compliance thing?

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They use the messaging because they understand that the both the medium

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and the message are important to keep everybody engaged

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in the revolution.

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Leaders innovate like gorillas and scare

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the incumbents like pirates.

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00:29:58,990 –> 00:30:02,669
So what are we to do with this

472
00:30:02,669 –> 00:30:06,510
information from the few clips that we’ve read from On Guerrilla

473
00:30:06,510 –> 00:30:09,890
Warfare by Mao Zedong? I would encourage you to pick up the book.

474
00:30:11,395 –> 00:30:15,155
One of the better chapters in it, if you’re going to pick it up,

475
00:30:15,155 –> 00:30:18,455
and one of the more highlighted or annotated chapters

476
00:30:19,315 –> 00:30:23,075
that I read in the book was on it was

477
00:30:23,075 –> 00:30:26,800
chapter 5, organization for Guerrilla

478
00:30:27,179 –> 00:30:30,620
Warfare. Could be particularly useful for you if you’re looking

479
00:30:30,620 –> 00:30:34,300
to mount an insurrection or overthrow an

480
00:30:34,300 –> 00:30:37,840
incumbent. What can we learn

481
00:30:38,540 –> 00:30:41,955
from what guerrilla warfare did

482
00:30:42,255 –> 00:30:45,395
and what it accomplished in the 20th century

483
00:30:46,015 –> 00:30:49,075
by writing history in iron and blood?

484
00:30:50,735 –> 00:30:54,570
Well, first the caveat. I don’t want it to be said that I

485
00:30:54,570 –> 00:30:58,250
am supportive of Marxist Leninism or Marx or or supportive

486
00:30:58,250 –> 00:31:01,630
of communist revolutions. I’m not a communist.

487
00:31:01,850 –> 00:31:05,610
I’m actually an anti anti communist, if

488
00:31:05,610 –> 00:31:09,375
you know what that means. I’m also not in support

489
00:31:10,075 –> 00:31:13,595
of overweening capitalism. I believe we need to have a

490
00:31:13,595 –> 00:31:17,435
moral core inside of our capitalism and our

491
00:31:17,435 –> 00:31:21,280
capitalistic approaches to the environment, to

492
00:31:21,280 –> 00:31:24,900
human capital, to dealing with other people, and to the

493
00:31:25,680 –> 00:31:29,440
the placement of our resources in the world. I do believe

494
00:31:29,440 –> 00:31:32,900
that one of the fundamental problems that has been exposed in the last 25

495
00:31:32,960 –> 00:31:36,705
years of, not only Western culture but

496
00:31:36,705 –> 00:31:40,385
also global culture has been the failure of capitalism to have a

497
00:31:40,385 –> 00:31:43,985
moral core and a moral core

498
00:31:43,985 –> 00:31:47,585
based not on secularism or secular morality but a

499
00:31:47,585 –> 00:31:49,285
moral core based in Christianity.

500
00:31:52,350 –> 00:31:56,190
With that being said, I wanna be very clear. The Marxist approach to

501
00:31:56,190 –> 00:31:59,630
revolution, the Marxist approach to guerilla tactics, the

502
00:31:59,630 –> 00:32:03,010
Marxist approach to piracy, the Marxist approach to innovation

503
00:32:03,765 –> 00:32:07,465
is inherently anti Christian and fundamentally

504
00:32:07,605 –> 00:32:11,385
Luciferian because it focuses on the dissolution and deconstruction

505
00:32:11,605 –> 00:32:14,665
of history, always chasing

506
00:32:15,845 –> 00:32:19,650
a never ending vista of utopia while quote

507
00:32:19,650 –> 00:32:22,310
unquote breaking a few eggs along the way.

508
00:32:24,530 –> 00:32:27,830
I think in the 21st century the

509
00:32:28,290 –> 00:32:31,350
opposition to marxism and leninism is coming,

510
00:32:31,825 –> 00:32:35,425
well, interestingly enough, from the places where marxism and

511
00:32:35,425 –> 00:32:39,025
leninism used to come from small places that are

512
00:32:39,025 –> 00:32:42,725
local. Small and local is the new big

513
00:32:42,785 –> 00:32:46,230
as we have moved past the traumas of the 20th century. And

514
00:32:46,230 –> 00:32:49,830
leaders should pay attention to this. Leaders should

515
00:32:49,830 –> 00:32:53,190
know that leadership is required to reduce the

516
00:32:53,190 –> 00:32:56,970
impact, to reduce the the overweening

517
00:32:57,430 –> 00:33:01,065
power of mass on a on the on the on local

518
00:33:01,065 –> 00:33:04,745
issues and on local incumbencies and

519
00:33:04,745 –> 00:33:08,585
even on local guerrilla factions, leadership is required to reduce

520
00:33:08,585 –> 00:33:12,205
the impact of the national on the local and to reverse

521
00:33:12,265 –> 00:33:15,870
the power of scaling problems to their highest level, which is what

522
00:33:15,870 –> 00:33:19,630
social media brings us rather than dealing with the problem closest to

523
00:33:19,630 –> 00:33:23,169
its source of origin. There’s no dopaminergic

524
00:33:23,630 –> 00:33:25,730
reward for solving a local problem.

525
00:33:27,975 –> 00:33:31,335
I think chairman Mao would agree with this next

526
00:33:31,335 –> 00:33:34,775
statement. Skin in the game is vital to any kind of

527
00:33:34,775 –> 00:33:38,615
gorilla strategy, but it’s also vital to

528
00:33:38,615 –> 00:33:42,350
any type of business innovation. Discipline is

529
00:33:42,350 –> 00:33:45,790
critical to the evolution of action. If you’re not

530
00:33:45,790 –> 00:33:48,690
disciplined, you’re just doing things.

531
00:33:50,190 –> 00:33:53,170
Kind of the way the Joker talked about it in The Dark Knight.

532
00:33:53,804 –> 00:33:57,644
I’m just a dog chasing a car. I wouldn’t know what to do

533
00:33:57,644 –> 00:34:01,184
with it if I caught it. And

534
00:34:01,404 –> 00:34:04,784
when faced with malevolence, a gorilla must maintain

535
00:34:04,845 –> 00:34:07,264
skepticism in the face of authoritarian,

536
00:34:08,284 –> 00:34:10,049
tyrannical manipulation.

537
00:34:12,270 –> 00:34:15,949
One of the ways that guerilla tactics work is they ensure

538
00:34:15,949 –> 00:34:19,630
compliance. They brainwash people with propaganda. And

539
00:34:19,630 –> 00:34:23,465
that’s not to say that we aren’t brainwashing our own social media

540
00:34:23,525 –> 00:34:27,364
ways in the appropriate social media ways in our own era and in our own

541
00:34:27,364 –> 00:34:30,505
time, but it is to say that we do live in a free society

542
00:34:31,045 –> 00:34:34,565
where alternative viewpoints can act in a guerilla

543
00:34:34,565 –> 00:34:38,380
fashion not only on your

544
00:34:38,380 –> 00:34:41,520
followers, but also on you.

545
00:34:43,340 –> 00:34:47,020
And that’s something to keep in mind if you’re gonna go out and be a

546
00:34:47,020 –> 00:34:50,380
pirate or behave like a

547
00:34:50,380 –> 00:34:54,175
gorilla. And

548
00:34:54,175 –> 00:34:57,796
well that’s it for me