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“Die for the country? Yes, ”says an online slogan. “Die for the capitalists? Never!”

New slogans among young people reveal this favorable mood for Mao. With stagnant wages, young people speak of a “downgrading of consumption”. Their employers work them so hard that they call themselves “wage slaves”, “company cattle” and “overtime dogs”. A growing number of them say they would rather become lazy, using the Chinese expression “tang ping” or “lay flat”.

of “Mao Zedong’s Selected Works” popular again. Photos of fashionably dressed young people reading books in subways, airports and cafes are circulating online. Students at Tsinghua University Library in Beijing borrowed the book more than any other in 2019 and 2020, according to the library’s official WeChat account.

“I will definitely reread the ‘selected works’ over and over again in the future,” wrote a young blogger named Mukangcheng on Douban, a Chinese social media service focused on books, movies and other media. “He has the job function email database power to show the light to a person seeking in darkness. It strengthens my weak soul and widens my narrow worldview.

Mukangcheng, who refused to give me his real name, uses an email account called “Left Left”. His portrait is a red Mao badge. His messages relate to the high prices of pork and the lack of money for his phone bills. In 2018, when he visited the site of the First National Communist Party Congress in Shanghai, he wrote on the guestbook, quoting Mao: “Never forget the class struggle!

Others commenting online on the “selected works” said they saw themselves in young Mao, an educated young villager from a remote province who was trying to succeed in the early 1900s in the large city then known as from Beijing. They generally call Mao “teacher,” a term he preferred to call himself.