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Libya
Index
Qadhafi spelled out his prescriptions for the Libyan Cultural
Revolution in his The Green Book, which grew eventually to
comprise three slim volumes. Many foreign observers who had
compared Libya's Cultural Revolution to the Chinese Cultural
Revolution, naturally compared The Green Book to Mao's
Red Book. Like Mao's Red Book, The Green Book
has been widely distributed both inside and outside the country.
Both are written in a simple, understandable style with many
memorable slogans. In size, both are rather modest, but their
impact cannot be exaggerated. In a sense, The Green Book has
vied with the Quran as the basis for Libya's development, much as
The Red Book attempted to supplant the Confucian system of
thought.
Data as of 1987
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