I'm getting interested in Maoism as a new ideology to move into. To all the ayy lMAO's on here, what material do you recommend I read?
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Aiden Miller
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Christopher Wilson
I'd say don't do it. If you do want the contrary view on Maoism I like these critiques presented from a Hoxhaist viewpoint:
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Bentley Parker
Thank you famrades
Brayden White
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mariborchan.si
These, especially the later.
As well as Alessandro Russo's article in mariborchan.si
What these texts do is to critically examine Maoism, and especially the Cultural Revolution, as a collapse of the traditional party-form and Leninist narrative.
I'd strongly recommend you to not become a Maoist, the original definition (support Mao/PRC or Khrushchev/USSR?) is today gone, and instead it's just become a cesspit for the most insane tankieism and SJW hysteria.
Daniel Sullivan
The Battle for China's Past by Mobo Gao is about how the current view of Mao is distorted by Chinese Elite interests. The sources used by western Marxists who try to analyse Mao are polluted, so they end up being useful idiots. There is a decent documentary from the late 80s interviewing regular folks called China in Revolution.
Daniel White
Start with this massalijn.nl
Then read Mao marxists.org
Then read this necessityandfreedom.wordpress.com
I'd strongly recommend you to not become a Maoist, the original definition (support Mao/PRC or Khrushchev/USSR?) is today gone, and instead it's just become a cesspit for the most insane tankieism and SJW hysteria.
For one, support for Khrushchev? Are you unfamiliar with the Sino-Soviet Split? Either way, MLM=/=MZT. Mao Zedong Though is exclusively for China, and supports many of Mao's theories from his rightward turn that MLM rejects.
Isaiah Nelson
Why does Holla Forums love pleb-tier sad boy theory so much?
Luke Jackson
Yeah, I'm no Maoist but the idea that most western Maoists are TWs or follow CCP ideology to the letter is ridiculous. Please learn about the very clear delineation between Mao Zedong Thought and MLM.
In short: FUCKING READ.
Brandon Gray
I meant to put this in greentext
That was an error on my part.
Zachary Perez
Redpill me on the eternal sparrow, maobros
Jace Ward
Oh no I understood what you were getting at, I just forgot to quote the posters you were referring to when I told them to read a goddamn book.
I'm not a Maoist because I'm not well read enough to defend the tenants of any ideology. However, my big introduction to Socialism was through finding a link to MLM Mayhem, so I'm familiar with Maoism to a degree.
Jace Reed
Not for long, cuck.
Dylan Gonzalez
Third World horseshit
Michael Gray
Are there books about the traces of anarchist thought in Mao (he read anarchists in his youth) and the influence of other writers than Marx on him?
I wonder whether there exists a Chinese darknet leftypol, complete with shitty memes about evil sparrows rubbing their wings together.
Aaron Ward
Why uphold Maoism then? If Mao's legacy and that of the CPC and MLM are two different things what is the reason to become a maoist? I get that most MLMs have a generally positive view of Mao but if you go around saying some parts of Mao's legacy is revisionist and MLM corrects it, then you might start to wonder if there is a revisionist streak running all through his work and the history of the CPC.
Some of the stuff like MLMs say mao never claimed that really isn't true imo
Benjamin Adams
show me one time Mao said revolution couldn't happen in the first world
Levi Hall
*MLMs say Mao never claimed that his thought was a new stage of ML is not true.
Isaac Mitchell
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Nolan King
People who die under NotCommunism aren't real people
Jason Davis
I'm not a Maoist, but even I know you're full of shit.
Because there's more to it than that. MLM is based on MZT and much of what Mao did as a leader, but it is still critical of things Mao did and Mao himself, because if it wasn't it would become dogmatic.
Do you want them to agree 100% with him? That's absurd. Everybody is wrong about something, and you need to correct these things and base your worldview on facts.
I don't even know what you're saying here.
Daniel Thomas
Shit, missed your correction. My bad.
Charles Williams
The thing I don't get is how its actually different beyond people like Gonzalo who I actually kind of admire saying "okay well its different" one difference that comes to mind is the emphasis on the universality of peoples war (which I don't agree with) that was agreed to by RIM. They say they don't agree with everything Mao or the CCP did, well the maoist movement didn't agree with everything Mao said when he was alive, so I don't see how that makes MLM different from MZT.
It's not really that, that could and should be done, but have you ever wondered why Mao seems like more of an ultra-democrat or ultra-leftist in his outlook when compared with Lenin and Stalin? He did a lot of good in China, but hell Tito did some good things Yugoslavia, that doesn't make me want to follow him as some icon of anti-revisionism. Mao was less revisionist then Tito but so was Khrushchev, Honeker and anyone who had a shred of personal integrity.
If they think Mao got revisionist and dogmatic at times and find some good in him, why do they reject Hoxha as revisionist and dogmatic? Most rank and file maoists have no problem with Hoxha afaik but most MLM parties do.
Isaiah Cooper
That was literally what I was talking about.
Isn't "and".
Ok, yeah the former is a attempt to great a dogmatic cult around his reading abroad, and the latter was the cult around his reading at home.
So at least we're in agreement there.
In either case, Mao's writings is about as fucking far you can get from Marx own theory. It's essentially just another left-nationalist movement. Chuang delivers as always.