Cixin Liu, check out literally everything he’s written.
The man is a fantastic sci fi writer, an engineer at water treatment facility and a real ‘Communist with Chinese Characteristics’. Highly recommend for all looking for a truly forward looking and intelligent individual.
Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought is used to denote Marxism Leninism whilst recognising the contributions of Mao, However usually this is assumed within Marxism Leninism and only used to denote distance itself from Marxism-Leninism-Maoism also known as Maoism.
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism also known as Maoism (in the modern day ) is a creation of Gonzalo of The Shining Path in Peru and is characterized by an insistence of using the methods of Mao Zedong as universally applicable methods in any country or time (Protracted People’s War)
^this is a dogmatic approach and ironically exactly what Mao himself explicitly states one should avoid.
tldr; Maoism/MLM (in the west particularly) is a form of left opportunism (impatient, dogmatic, inflexible) that functions as : harmful to the local community in its inappropriate application of methods that worked in different places & times : anti-communist and lacking in foresight with regards to AES (actually existing socialism) and therefore functionally supportive of imperialism
I said that Maoists don’t read Mao otherwise they’d be Marxist Leninists like Mao and then linked to Mao audiobooks 🤷
Deng Xiaoping was a seriously devoted ML afaik, the guy navigated a pretty crazy and confusing time in global history and laid the foundation for the PRCs role as the powerful support of the global south
Oh you don’t have to tell me twice, Mao was my foundation for my ML study, Im glad I only briefly and tentatively described myself as a Maoist before understanding the context of the term and discovering the term ML- MZT
ah that makes sense, someone asked where to learn about maoism and which of Mao’s works to read and I said that Maoists don’t read Mao otherwise they’d be Marxist Leninists like Mao
Ive always thought that there was an element of grouping to it too.
CCP= Chinese Communist Party = the chinese variety of (the monolithic) communist parties of the world ( the enemy )
CPC= Communist Party of China = the communist variety of the many political parties in China
but also it is worth noting that it seems the acronyms are used quite interchangeably in chinese media as they’re only translations anyway