In a 1956 interview with Strong, Mao used the phrase "paper tiger" to describe American imperialism again:
In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of; it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe that it is nothing but a paper tiger.
So the US was never able to bully China into anything, :reddit-logo: being cringe again...
"Maoism", in most leftist circles, almost always refers to the ideology first developed by the Shining Path in Peru, and is the ideology of orgs like the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), and the Communist Party of the Philippines
Mao referred to his own ideas as "Mao Zedong Thought"
Even though I'm not a Maoist, the man was right:
In a 1956 interview with Strong, Mao used the phrase "paper tiger" to describe American imperialism again:
So the US was never able to bully China into anything, :reddit-logo: being cringe again...
I mean you don't have to be a Maoist to dig Mao. I don't think anyone in the current CPC would identify as "Maoist"
What
They're still following SWCC which is Maoist, the New Democracy stuff that the CPC has been doing for the past half century is a Maoist program.
China isn't Maoist anymore, every leader since Mao has continued to adapt CPC's ideology to the current times, starting with Dengism, then Three Represents (Jiang Zemin), then Scientific Outlook on Development (Hu Jintao), and finally Xi Jinping Thought. The CPC sees them as continuations of Mao Zedong Thought but some people instead see them as revisionist.
Maoists fundamentally uphold the GPCR and the CPC doesn't.
The CPC upholds ML-Mao ZeDong thought, which does incorporate some of Mao's ideas but does not incorporate the GPCR.
"Maoism", in most leftist circles, almost always refers to the ideology first developed by the Shining Path in Peru, and is the ideology of orgs like the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), and the Communist Party of the Philippines
Mao referred to his own ideas as "Mao Zedong Thought"