The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
值得一读。
“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”
关于群众运动领袖：
“The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.”
关于群众运动的社会心理学：
“The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.”
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national, and racial affairs."
“people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.”
关于群众运动的后果：
“There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members. Though manifestly unfair, this tendency has some justification. For the character and destiny of a group are often determined by its inferior elements.”
上次姚顺让我展开说说革命文学，这个要认真说起来，工作量很大，好多那时的文学作品要重读。但我觉得作为我们这代人耳熟能详的毛泽东诗词，可以说是革命文学的典范。按鲁迅的说法，革命文学一定是革命的人写的才算，没参加革命的人是写不出革命文学的（大意，见《而已集》）。但不是说革命者就一定能写出革命文学，逻辑地说，革命者只是必要条件，还需要一个充分条件，那就是文学才华。
我想，除了被政治扭曲了文学鉴赏力的人，估计没有谁会否认毛泽东诗词的文学价值。毛泽东诗词集选出的诗词都是毛泽东在革命斗争中有感而发创作的，是对革命斗争的记录和讴歌。关于毛泽东诗词的特点，我一个在政治上并不认可毛泽东的老朋友说出了关键点：毛泽东诗词是真正用现代语言写出的古典格律诗词。并不像现在很多喜欢格律诗词的爱好者，还是用古人的习惯用的词和古人习惯用的景物。明明手机不离手，满眼高楼大厦，可诗中的景物不是折扇就是亭台楼阁。不知道的还以为他们是古代穿越过来的呢。：）
而在我看来，毛泽东诗词表现出的是一种革命者改天换地的气魄和乐观主义精神，这个在古代诗人作品里很少看到。我读的古典诗词不多，谁发现了可以发上来分享。
为了研究革命文学，这几天把毛泽东诗词又看了一遍。顺手选出我认为的金句，这些金句中有的甚至已经变成中国人的口头禅，比如：不到长城非好汉。
我选的金句如下：
1、埋骨何须桑梓地，人生无处不青山。
2、自信人生二百年，会当水击三千里。
3、指点江山，激扬文字，粪土当年万户侯。
4、雄关漫道真如铁，而今迈步从头越。
5、不到长城非好汉。
6、江山如此多娇，引无数英雄竞折腰。
7、数风流人物，还看今朝。
8、宜将剩勇追穷寇，不可沽名学霸王。天若有情天亦老，人间正道是沧桑。
9、牢骚太盛防肠断，风物长宜放眼量。
10、坐地日行八万里，巡天遥看一千河。
11、春风杨柳万千条，六亿神州尽舜尧。
12、为有牺牲多壮志，敢教日月换新天。
13、中华儿女多奇志，不爱红装爱武装。
14、今日欢呼孙大圣，只缘妖雾又重来。
15、梅花欢喜漫天雪，冻死苍蝇未足奇。
16、一万年太久，只争朝夕。
17、四海翻腾云水怒，五洲震荡风雷激。
18、世上无难事，只要肯登攀。
谁还有的话，可以补充啊。：）
七绝：〈呈父亲〉
(1910年秋，17岁)
孩儿立志出乡关，
学不成名誓不还。
埋骨何须桑梓地，
人生无处不青山。
斯大林，洪秀全，波尔布特 。。。。。。。
关于群众运动，社会哲学家Eric Hoffe写了一本经典
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
值得一读。
“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”
关于群众运动领袖：
“The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.”
关于群众运动的社会心理学：
“The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.”
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national, and racial affairs."
“people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.”
关于群众运动的后果：
“There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members. Though manifestly unfair, this tendency has some justification. For the character and destiny of a group are often determined by its inferior elements.”
这话当然政治不正确，但有statistical significance。问精通中国历史的网友们，在那么多的农民起义中，推动社会进步的有几个？
中国将为放屁和犁地买单了。
现代社会还有人在吹捧希特勒吗？你老毛有希特勒牛吗？