Maoism
Sign in to savethumb|Chinese propaganda portraying Mao Zedong, 1968
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51 sectionsContents
- History
- Chinese intellectual tradition
- Iconoclastic revolution and anti-Confucianism
- Nationalism and the appeal of Marxism
- Yan'an period between November 1935 and March 1947
- Mao Zedong's intellectual development
- Initial Marxist period (1920–1926)
- Formative Maoist period (1927–1935)
- Mature Maoist period (1935–1940)
- Civil War period (1940–1949)
- Post-Civil War period (1949–1976)
- Differences from Marxism
- After Mao Zedong's death
- Components
- New Democracy
- People's war
- Mass line
- Cultural Revolution
- Contradiction
- Three Worlds Theory
- Agrarian socialism
- Populism
- International influence
- Afghanistan
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Ecuador
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- India
- Iran
- Israel
- Italy
- Mao-Spontex
- Palestine
- Peru
- Philippines
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
- Tanzania
- Turkey
- United States
- Criticism and implementation
- Nationalism
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Chinese propaganda portraying Mao Zedong, 1968
Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China. A difference between Maoism and traditional Marxism–Leninism is that a united front of progressive forces in class society would lead the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than communist revolutionaries alone. This theory, in which revolutionary praxis is primary and ideological orthodoxy is secondary, represents urban Marxism–Leninism adapted to pre-industrial China. Later theoreticians expanded on the idea that Mao had adapted Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions, arguing that he had in fact updated it fundamentally and that Maoism could be applied universally throughout the world. This ideology is often referred to as Marxism–Leninism–Maoism to distinguish it from the original ideas of Mao.