Oppose Book Worship (Chinese: 反对本本主义) is a 1930 essay written by Mao Zedong which criticizes dogmatism in the form of excessive reliance on classical Marxist works or higher leadership bodies.
Mao was well known within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for his investigations into the conditions of rural China.
[1]: 96 His views on the peasantry differed from the traditional Marxist class analysis espoused by the Soviet-trained party leadership, at times resulting in their rebukes of Mao.
[1]: 96 In 1930, Mao wrote Oppose Book Worship to criticize what he viewed as excessive reliance on Marxist classics or higher party organs in ways and analysis that departed from what Mao viewed as China's actual conditions.
"[1]: 96 In this view, Marxism–Leninism requires theory to be tied to local conditions through revolutionary practice.