Is maoism tainted by racism.

[The English Rebel]

Before i joined revleft, i was looking at other threads, i came across one stating that maoism has racist elements, is this true and how much does maoism differ from trotskyism.
Also i have heard che guevara being called a radical maoist, trotskyist in a book by a former KGB agent, does this have any substance.

[red cat]

Sources and discussions on Maoism have been posted on these two threads:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/maoism-t121714/index.html

http://www.revleft.com/vb/mao-zedong-t121784/index.html

At least I have found nothing racist so far in Maoism.

Che Guevara could not grasp Maoist politics. However, some Maoists say that in his last years in Cuba Che had denounced USSR and tilted towards the Chinese bloc. Many Maoists uphold Che as a communist. They criticize much of his politics, but uphold his technical contributions to guerrilla warfare.

[Dimentio]

Before i joined revleft, i was looking at other threads, i came across one stating that maoism has racist elements, is this true and how much does maoism differ from trotskyism.
Also i have heard che guevara being called a radical maoist, trotskyist in a book by a former KGB agent, does this have any substance.

Maoism is not racist.

Except if we are talking about maoist-thirdworldists, who are very active on campuses in the west. Most maoists in the actual Third World are some of the most anti-racist people who exist. I could attest to that.

[red cat]

What has third-worldism got to do with racism?

[Radical]

Before i joined revleft, i was looking at other threads, i came across one stating that maoism has racist elements, is this true and how much does maoism differ from trotskyism.
Also i have heard che guevara being called a radical maoist, trotskyist in a book by a former KGB agent, does this have any substance.

Che Guevara was NEVER a Trotskyist. He was a Marxist-Leninist that defended Stalin and Mao as genuine Communists. He spoke of Trotskyists as Revisionist and believed they failed because their methods were bad.

After the repression of the Cuban Trotskyists, Che Guevara spoke in 1961 attempting to justify the repression, saying "I have sworn before a picture of our old, much lamenated Comrade Stalin that I will not rest until I see these Capitalist octopuses annihilated"

I am pleased and proud to say that Che Guevara was one of us

[Spawn of Stalin]

Che's idea of world revolution is often confused with Trotsky's permanent revolution theory. Trotsky advocated good old fashioned worker revolution in industrialised areas, and mass revolutionary parties. Che on the other hand, favoured foco style guerilla warfare, with peasants and workers at the forefront of revolution.