Gonna ask it in here instead of making a new thread: how do y'all feel about Maoism? I've been reading a lot of Mao's writings lately and it's way easier to digest than Engels/Marx/Lenin. Is Maoism just not as popular nowadays because of Mao's legacy or the khmer rogue or what
Probably because of his mismanagement of agricultural reform in China, and also because maoism is the banner of pro market Leninists. Leninists who are pro market use the banner of Maoism. That said, Maoism is incredibly influential, just not by name. It had a huge impact on the new left (including the anarcho leaning situatuonists!), and on the Black Panther Party. As a result, Maoist ideas like insertion into social movements, organizing smallholders and agricultural workers, and organizing the permanently unemployed are common sense in the modern american left.
I’m in a Maoist org where we actually wear the real red bandanas and identify each other by pseudonyms.
I straight up don’t know what this means. Which Maoists are “Pro-Market Leninists”?
I’d consider the Indian Maoists (CPI Maoist) and the RCP-PCR (Canadian Maoists) to be a good sample of “what Maoists think”, for reference. If you know of any revisionism please bring it forward
I'm not saying Maoists are pro market, to be clear, I'm saying that when Lenninists are pro market they usually do it under the banner of Mao, probably because CCP is the most relevant Leninist organization in the world today.
Gonna ask it in here instead of making a new thread: how do y'all feel about Maoism? I've been reading a lot of Mao's writings lately and it's way easier to digest than Engels/Marx/Lenin. Is Maoism just not as popular nowadays because of Mao's legacy or the khmer rogue or what
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Probably because of his mismanagement of agricultural reform in China, and also because
maoism is the banner of pro market Leninists.Leninists who are pro market use the banner of Maoism. That said, Maoism is incredibly influential, just not by name. It had a huge impact on the new left (including the anarcho leaning situatuonists!), and on the Black Panther Party. As a result, Maoist ideas like insertion into social movements, organizing smallholders and agricultural workers, and organizing the permanently unemployed are common sense in the modern american left.I’m in a Maoist org where we actually wear the real red bandanas and identify each other by pseudonyms.
I straight up don’t know what this means. Which Maoists are “Pro-Market Leninists”?
I’d consider the Indian Maoists (CPI Maoist) and the RCP-PCR (Canadian Maoists) to be a good sample of “what Maoists think”, for reference. If you know of any revisionism please bring it forward
I wish there was an org like that around here
we’ll be in your area soon, comrade ;)
I'm not saying Maoists are pro market, to be clear, I'm saying that when Lenninists are pro market they usually do it under the banner of Mao, probably because CCP is the most relevant Leninist organization in the world today.