The Bright and Morning Star

How in heaven´s name (pun intended) is this different from a millenarian cult of some sort? Is Mao the resurrected Tao or what?

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If you are a revolutionary, a Marxist-Leninist, you will inevitably support the great leader Chairman Mao...; if you are a; counter- revolutionary, an anti-Marxist-Leninist, you will inevitably oppose Chairman Mao...

Chairman Mao is the very red sun that shines most brightly in our hearts. He is the great, teacher, great leader, great supreme commander and great helmsman selected by the proletariat and the revolutionary’ people of China and the world in the course of their protracted revolutionary struggles. 

He is the authority of the world proletarian struggle in the present era. ... He has the most profound Marxist-Leninist wisdom and the richest experience in struggle. ...Chairman Mao is the greatest Marxist-Leninist, the most outstanding proletarian leader and the greatest genius of our era. ...

Comrade Lin Piao says that a genius like Chairman Mao appears in the world only once in hundreds of years, or in China only once in thousands of years. Chairman Mao is the world’s greatest genius. ... Chairman Mao will always be our supreme leader, our supreme commander and the red sun shining most brightly in our hearts. Without him, there would not be the great Party we now have, nor our great army and great country; the Chinese people would have nothing, and the people of the world would find it impossible to achieve their liberation. 

...We will always follow him closely and thoroughly establish the absolute authority of our great supreme commander Chairman Mao. We pledge our lives to defend Chairman Mao’s position as the supreme leader. Anyone who opposes Chairman Mao stands condemned by all of us, the whole Party; he will be denounced by all of us, the entire nation. ...

None of the earlier Marxist-Leninists personally, at the very forefront, directed so many important political and military campaigns as Chairman Mao. And none of them experienced such protracted sharp and diverse struggles as Chairman Mao has. (Yang Cheng-wu: “Thoroughly Establish the Absolute Authority of the Great Supreme Commander Chairman Mao. . .etc.”, in: “Peking Review”, No.46, 1967; p.17-18,19,20).

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