Why do Maoists still exist in the 21st century? Yes, Mao "won" a revolution, but this in itself says little about his actual theory (which was mostly terrible, to be perfectly honest). We all know of the Naxals and the Shining Path but besides them and a few other armed groups here and there Maoism is dead. Most parts of the world no longer have a significant peasant class plus Mao's dialectics were utter shit overall. No other part of the world has the same conditions as China in the 1940s. So yes, we need to discard Maoism or MZT once and for all and come up with better theory that's more relevant to the current day. Even "Maoism Third Worldism" doesn't break from all the bullshit truisms.
Real talk
Landon Campbell
Jonathan Edwards
I'm sending that meme to Roo.
Jayden Evans
tbf there is still a huge peasant population in certain countries like India for example but your right, and urbanization is doing away with the peasantry worldwide anyways.
Cooper Butler
I was about to say. Most of India's rural population is being urbanized.
Face it: Maoism is useless today.
Nicholas Ward
this is not a real criticism
Isaiah Cox
Bad theory begets bad practice.
Jack Richardson
Mao is incredibly important to our current situation for, I think, a pretty clear reason: his China is the last serious manifestation of the communist Idea. We can criticize his regime as much as possible, as we should, but always under a very specific paradigm: what we are criticizing is why someone who was, inarguably and ethically, committed to the communist project could produce a failure, and then utilizing the elements which allowed for his success while simultaneously integrating the cause of his inevitable fallout.
Being a "Maoist" I'm pretty sure means one of two things: you either (by some perverse logic) think that the Maoist project is a legitimate manifestation of the communist Idea which is to be reinterpreted rather than critiqued, or that Mao is simply the last true communist to cause a rupture within the Real of global capitalism. Mao has some truly insightful interpretations of diamat, however i think his real function is to provide a historical example that a political engagement with the Real isn't just a fantasy, that we are capable of acting in favor of what we actually desire.
Samuel Lopez
this is not a real criticism
Eli Bell
Is this pasta or legit?
Blake Hall
just wrote it my guy