Can someone explain Maoism to me?

[Red Flag]

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[marxstudent]

i'd like to know too. red?

[Nobody]

Maoism is basically Marxism in an arganrian society. Revolution there generally deals with land reform, aka, giving land to peasents. Someone more knowalgable then me will have to eleborate.

[redstar2000]

Here are two of the many threads on the subject...

http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?a...07&hl=maoism&s= (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=6&t=6407&hl=maoism&s=)

http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?a...35&hl=maoism&s= (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=6&t=6335&hl=maoism&s=)

http://anarchist-action.org/forums/images/smiles/redstar.gif

The RedStar2000 Papers (http://www.anarchist-action.org/marxists/redstar2000/)
A site about communist ideas

[Saint-Just]

Maoism is really defined by the unique qualities of Mao's leadership in China. He is a Marxist-Leninist. He knew that the only way to create a revolution in China would be by gaining the support of the peasantry since China had such a large peasant population and the urban working classes Marx talked of to create the revolution did not exist in a great quantity in China, similar to Russia pre-1917.

Maoism today is an interpretation of Mao coupled with a Marxist-Leninist movement inspired largely by Mao. Mao's greatest contribution to Marxism-Leninism is his writing on the revisionism in the Soviet Union and the 'little red book' and New Democracy. The 'little red book' (Quotations from the Chairman Mao Zedong) is the appliance of Marxism-Leninism to China, how he sees the people, the party and what they must adhere to so they insure the party does not deviate from the Marxist-Leninist line or indeed as Mao said, the 'Mass-Line'. New Democracy details the cultural and political climate of China and relates it to what Chinese culture should seek to do in the future and to the anti-imperialist struggle.

Movements such as that of the Communist geurrilla movement in Nepal are called Maoist largely because of their wish to emulate the kind of revolution that took place in China and because of their strong anti-imperialist stance.