There’s a lot I’d like to argue with here, but I’ve only just started reading into Maoism and don’t have the confidence to have such an argument. But I do want to make a clarification, Maoists don’t uphold Mao as some perfect figure beyond critique. Maoism is the third stage of revolutionary science that took the good, universal aspects of Mao’s theory and praxis, building on Marxism-Leninism, and applied it to making revolution. Maoism is not doing what Mao did. Maoism only came into being in 1988 through the people’s war in Peru and then properly in 1993
For further reading:
This Left deviation sent most Maoists into a tailspin and is why even today they cannot get a decent grasp on foreign policy vis a vis the revisionists in China (which they are)
But they would rather fight against ‘Chinese social imperialism’ than understand the main contradiction today is between neoliberalism (devolving into fascism) led by Christian fundamentalists in the West versus Chinese revisionism
In my opinion Mao never even built socialism in China (as outlined by Enver in in first comment as well as Kke) compared to the Maoist belief that the capitalist roaders followed Mao.
In left wing circles due to their terrible state of really existing socialism there is a tendency to “uphold China as socialist”
This is nonsense. Revisionism under Kruschev was able to do what the Nazis could not do an complete and total war
It is perfectly acceptable to say that “communist parties should call time on any other parties not supporting China during the era of great power competition and likely war” than whittling marxism-leninism into revisionism and pretending China is socialist by any objective measure we used to validate the Ussr had built socialism by 1933
There’s a lot I’d like to argue with here, but I’ve only just started reading into Maoism and don’t have the confidence to have such an argument. But I do want to make a clarification, Maoists don’t uphold Mao as some perfect figure beyond critique. Maoism is the third stage of revolutionary science that took the good, universal aspects of Mao’s theory and praxis, building on Marxism-Leninism, and applied it to making revolution. Maoism is not doing what Mao did. Maoism only came into being in 1988 through the people’s war in Peru and then properly in 1993 For further reading:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31344514-continuity-and-rupture
So Mao endorsed the Three Worlds theory
https://espressostalinist.com/2011/08/30/series-on-maoist-revisionism-mao-endorses-the-three-worlds-theory-dengs-u-n-speech/
This Left deviation sent most Maoists into a tailspin and is why even today they cannot get a decent grasp on foreign policy vis a vis the revisionists in China (which they are)
But they would rather fight against ‘Chinese social imperialism’ than understand the main contradiction today is between neoliberalism (devolving into fascism) led by Christian fundamentalists in the West versus Chinese revisionism
In my opinion Mao never even built socialism in China (as outlined by Enver in in first comment as well as Kke) compared to the Maoist belief that the capitalist roaders followed Mao.
In left wing circles due to their terrible state of really existing socialism there is a tendency to “uphold China as socialist”
This is nonsense. Revisionism under Kruschev was able to do what the Nazis could not do an complete and total war
It is perfectly acceptable to say that “communist parties should call time on any other parties not supporting China during the era of great power competition and likely war” than whittling marxism-leninism into revisionism and pretending China is socialist by any objective measure we used to validate the Ussr had built socialism by 1933