What aspects of Maoism are universal?

[heiss93]

Mao is said to have sinicized Marxism, yet there are universal aspects, or else there would be no need for First World Maoism. There are no clear textbooks on fundamentals of Maoism, so I suppose the best way to universalize Maoism is to look at Soviet Marxism-Leninism and understand the differences.

Materialist Dialectics- emphasis on monist opposites, unity of theory and practice, voluntarism, particular aspect of contradiction

Historical Materialism- Superstructure can become primary contradiction

Political Economy- role of the masses in changing base

Scientific Communism- productive forces, continuing class struggle, people's war, masses must challenge bureaucracy, mass line, possibility of restoration

[Rawthentic]

good question.

I think this some of the Mao's major contributions which have influenced revolutionaries around the world include: the mass line methodology (studying and learning from the people and their conditions and synthesizing that into theory and programs/agendas to be taken back to the people and acted upon) and the cultural revolution (mao's insight into the nature of socialist society and capitalist restoration).

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Heiss, you posted this at the Kasama Forum, to which I give the same reply:


Materialist Dialectics- emphasis on monist opposites, unity of theory and practice, voluntarism, particular aspect of contradiction

http://z11.invisionfree.com/Kasama_Threads/index.php?showtopic=822

Namely: this just goes to show that the 'ruling ideas are always those of the ruling class'.