Where do the main problems with Maoism lie?

[Drowzy_Shooter]

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[daft punk]

"Some people fail to understand why, so far from fearing capitalism, Communists should advocate its development in certain given conditions. Our answer is simple. The substitution of a certain degree of capitalist development for the oppression of foreign imperialism and domestic feudalism is not only an advance but an unavoidable process. It benefits the proletariat as well as the bourgeoisie, and the former perhaps more. It is not domestic capitalism but foreign imperialism and domestic feudalism which are superfluous in China today; indeed, we have too little of capitalism."

"Our Party must also have a specific programme for each period based on this general programme. Our general programme of New Democracy will remain unchanged throughout the stage of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, that is, for several decades."

Mao, 1945


"Fuck off, Mao, I'm backing the KMT anyway"

Stalin, 1925,6, 7, 8, 9,. 30....40...45...48

"Oh fuck, you actually won?"

Stalin 1948-9

[Rooster]

The block of four classes and thinking that the bourgeoisie have any progressive role to play.

[daft punk]

I beat you to it!:)

[Ocean Seal]

The block of four classes and thinking that the bourgeoisie have any progressive role to play.
I disagree, Maoism should not be thought of as a form of socialism. Maoism is capitalism, it never intended to be anything more than capitalism. It was a way for the third world to develop itself very quickly, and catch up to the west. It did that with a pretty good degree of success. That being said, for those who intend to transform Maoism from capitalism to socialism should note that it will be a difficult journey because the nation has adopted class collaboration and is not a workers state. However, due to the advances that Maoism has given China, we are now faced with a revolutionary situation where the Chinese bourgeoisie are running scared respite their authoritarian measures. I would argue that a bourgeois democratic framework would not be able to combat the Chinese workers simply because they are so militant even in draconian conditions.

[La Comédie Noire]

Maoism is fruitful when applied in countries with high peasant populations and is just down right weird when applied in any other setting.

And as mentioned above their policy of alliance with the bourgeoisie led to the disastrous events of 1927 which saw most of the communist party destroyed by nationalists. In a way Maoism and its reliance on the peasantry was an ad-hoc patch to the situation, the survivors of the red terror fled into the country side and began organizing peasants.

[Red Rabbit]

The main problem with Maoism is that when applied, all it can accomplish is State-Capitalism. Maoism is not the path to Socialism.

However, in a feudal country Maoism can bring about progress and help develop the country further.