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Maoism

Also known as Mao Zedong Thought, Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought, Maoists

thumb|Chinese propaganda portraying Mao Zedong, 1968

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native label: 毛泽东思想

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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.