Ultra-left Maoism

[Искра]

What is an Ultra-Left Maoism? I found this "tendency" on a "you don't belong here" list of New Communist Movement group.

[Tim Cornelis]

Probably a word to slander people with like "counterrevolutionary-bourgeois-idealist-utopian-reactionary-ultra-left-Maoist".

[Искра]

Maybe, but I heard from one guy that there are "Ultra-Left Maoists" and "Right-Wing Maoists" and that anarchists should work with the first one. He is an anarchist, so I'm confused hehe

[Commissar Rykov]

I would like to learn more about this Ultra-Left Maoism as well. I personally believe half the time the Left uses is spent making creative slurs against another tendency.:D

[Rusty Shackleford]

i believer it refers to tendencies that advocate forcible reeducation of western workers in underdeveloped areas. though the motive is not bad, the way of going about it is. im probably wrong though.

[The Douche]

They're allies of me and the autonomaoist movement.

[Ocean Seal]

I remember there was a user whose name was monkey riding dragon and she had a site for Ultra-left Maoists. I don't think that it actually means anything.

[Rusty Shackleford]

If it refers to Lin Biao thought then that is ridiculous.

[Искра]

Maybe it has something to do with 1968 and how youth of Europe viewed Maoism as something progresive and close to anarchism.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Well, during the Sino-Soviet split Krushchyov called the PRC government "ultra-leftist" when in reality the PRC was correct on their outlook before the end of the GPCR. Then Mao went on to call the SU fascist and imperialist and then aligned with the imperialists against the SU.

[Susurrus]

This probably:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Communism_in_China


In the People's Republic of China since 1967, the terms "Ultra-Left" and "left communist" (simplified Chinese: 共产主义左翼; traditional Chinese: 共產主義左翼; pinyin: Gòngchǎn zhǔyì zuǒyì) refers to political theory and practice self-defined as further "left" than that of the central Maoist leaders at the height of the GPCR ("Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"). The terms are also used retroactively to describe some early 20th century Chinese anarchist orientations. As a slur, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has used the term "ultra-left" more broadly to denounce any orientation it considers further "left" than the party line. According to the latter usage, in 1978 the CPC Central Committee denounced as "ultra-left" the line of Mao Zedong from 1956 until his death in 1976

[promethean]

What is an Ultra-Left Maoism? I found this "tendency" on a "you don't belong here" list of New Communist Movement group.
They may be referring to various strains of post-Maoism and the like, which were popular among French students after the events of 1968. See also this (http://kasamaproject.org/2011/04/29/chicago-post-maoism-panel-at-platypus-conference/).