cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/598073

I heard Maoism is popular in India. Why? What is so appealing about committing terrorism in the name of left-deviationism?

  • Commissar of Antifa
    15•1 year ago

    Maoists believe many features of MZT like PPW are universally applicable. Many Global South countries have similar material conditions to pre-revolutionary China, so it could make some sense there even though it wouldn’t work in the west.

    • @ihaveibs
      7•1 year ago

      This is how I’ve always thought of it, but would love any resources anyone has about it. Western Maoists strike me as more concern trolls, bringing up good points/questions about how to build socialist projects but never actually proffering any real solutions that aren’t exactly what Lenin/Stalin/Mao did or said despite that fact that the global context of the 21st century is completely different to what it is prior to WWII and in the immediate Post War/Pre-neoliberal era.

      NOTE: This is more of a comment on the big picture stuff, not necessarily the smaller scale activist type stuff that all leftist groups engage in