It’s finally happened. r/communism is formally a Gonzaloite cesspool. This happened after a few months of openly displaying the Shining Path hammer & sickle as the sub’s logo.
It’s finally happened. r/communism is formally a Gonzaloite cesspool. This happened after a few months of openly displaying the Shining Path hammer & sickle as the sub’s logo.
Maoists (as in MLM) have been the least successful communists by far, taking all the wrong lessons of cultural revolution.
On MLM / Gonzalo, and the shining path. 2 3, 4
I feel like LeftComs and AnComs are less successful, but yeah MLMs are up there.
Throw in trots as well. Arguably, after MLs, Maoists probably are the most successful, at least because their struggles aren’t disintegrating into splinters instead of fighting their peoples wars. Also, Nepal was arguably a successful revolution that simply fell to opportunism.
Anarchists, Trots, and Leftcoms have barely had a whiff of any kind of established power let alone a successful revolution.
For that I’ll give the Maoists their due credit.
maoism as a current makes a lot more sense if you subscribe to the theory that it was started to exacerbate the sino-soviet split.
“MLM” as in “Marxism-Leninism-Maoism”? I have no idea what this is though. The only mention of it that I have heard was a YouTube video discussing the Philippines years ago.
The other days, there was a guy discussing about Vietnam claiming Vietnamese kids have no idea who Marx, Lenin, and Mao were. Well, I can understand freting over Vietnamese kids not knowing Marx and Lenin, but Mao? Did the guy just ignore the historical disagreement and dispute just for the sake of being alarmist? Tbh, I did not like that guy.
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Cultural revolution? I thought Maoists were ones that follow the doctrine of protracted warfare as revolutionary praxis? That’s several decades before the cultural revolution.
Maoists typically believe Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Protracted People’s War, and the Mass Line are all universally applicable, and that all existing AES states are revisionist (with some making an exception for the DPRK). Mao himself was not a Maoist, but created Mao Zedong Thought as Marxism-Leninism applied to contemporary conditions in China.
Maoism was created / synthesized by the shining path in 1988.
Mao-zedong-thought (MZT) is different, and was and remains one of the guiding ideologies of the CPC.