Whenever I hear of Marxist theory applied to the conditions of modern America it's always in relation to ML or Trotskyism, but I never hear Maoism brought up. Does Maoism have any application to current day America?
Whenever I hear of Marxist theory applied to the conditions of modern America it's always in relation to ML or Trotskyism, but I never hear Maoism brought up. Does Maoism have any application to current day America?
One thing to note is that "Maoism" and "Mao Zedong Thought" are two very different things. The CPC practices MZT while guerillas like the NPA in the Philippines and the Naxalites in India practice Maoism.
The cornerstone of Maoism is the Protracted People's War, and honestly that hasn't panned out well in a very long time. The PPW in China was successful but China was a backward agrarian country with an extremely fragile and disorganized state. Maoism applied to the industrialized countries ends up looking like the RAF or the Weathermen. You cant really bleed a state as powerful as ours dry through attrition, so the whole theory breaks down.
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Absolutely, in non/semi-industrialised countries it is by far the most successful option. In the US flyover states it might even work, if it wasn't full of chuds. Maybe Urban nations with significant rural areas like Aus, though the main cities like Sydney are self sustaining within their local basin
PPW is less easy to adapt to, say the Rhineland, where the concept of rural means "5km wide green belt". No one is going to hide out in the remaining Black Forest pockets, striking at Stuttgart supply trains while dodging holiday hikers.
An adaptation to environments where there is nothing but cities and city support structures is needed, and I have trouble seeing how that would look like PPW as opposed to a more conventional ML approach of urban strikes and insurrection.
Also we would be destroyed doing a guerilla war in modern America. To much surveillance and to many drones.