How to Be a Good Communist

A compilation of a series of lectures by Liu Shao-Chi (Mao Tse-Tung’s number-two man and the President of Communist China) at the Yunan Institute of Marxism-Leninism in 1939, this book was more popular in Communist China than the works of Chairman Mao! For decades it was required reading for all party cadre on discipline and individual self-cultivation. More than 20 million copies have been printed and distributed in 80 countries. Paladin is proud to bring back the first U.S. edition of this work, originally published in this country in 1967, so that Americans can understand the historical and intellectual context of communism in China. This is especially important now that China has become a world power with which Western nations must increasingly contend