No CPP as in the Philippines. Joma Sison is not an ultra, and I would hope you are not saying the NPA is bad. Sison __Literally _ wrote the book on MLM. Gonzalo can fuck himself, don't stroke his ego in death by giving him reign over the term and ideology http://www.bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/Sison/Sison-OnThePhilosophyOfMarxism-Leninism-Maoism-OCR.pdf Also the Naxalites are also MLMs. This was a conversation here the other day, MLM being just "ultra left Gonzaloism" is only the stance that the shining path themselves believe. Don't flatter them, nor decide that the Naxalites own ideology is not theirs but that they rather wholly fit into a box you're comfortable with. It's like people hit the wall of "MLM is shining path" and "Naxalites are good" and rely on reducing their movement to just Mao Zedong Thought like post-Mao China.

Let them speak for themselves per their 2004 Party Programme upon the merger of the previous Marxist-Leninist People's War Group (PWG) and then Maoist Communist Center of India (MCCI) which was Maoist (protracted people's war all that) with the new organization being Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. So evidentially they don't agree with the idea that it is at odds with MZT or just means Gonzaloism. http://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/Programme-pamphlet.pdf

This ideology and culture will be guided by the great ideology of the proletariat, that is, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. This culture will express its international solidarity with the on-going revolutionary struggles for national liberation, democracy and socialism all over the world by uniting with them in their fight for people’s democratic and socialist culture. It will defeat all types of revisionist ideology and hold high the red banner of the most scientific and developed ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

A strong revolutionary party based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as its guiding ideological basis in all matters; that is well-disciplined and built up through revolutionary style and method; that is based on democratic centralism; that links the theory with practice; practises criticism and self-criticism; is closely integrated with the masses and relies firmly upon them; and stands firmly on the class line, mass line and armed struggle.

I'm not saying you have to be an MLM, but don't just change what the Naxalites are and consider themselves to be in order to make them mesh with an essentialist view. I think its fair to regard them as following what they espouse to follow, instead of saying they just follow what you personally find better. But hey I guess the Naxalites have a "bad ideology" and supporting them is

trying to be an enlightened pluralist about it is silly. You don’t do Scientific Socialism any favors by acting like every ideology is just as good as every other,

What was that thing Mao said about investigation? Seriously don't trust the wikipedia tab for "ideology" and leave it at that, and don't do the thing people do to the Zapatistas when they try to mold them into fitting with what is more comfortable for their tendency, at the expense of the actual theory and their actuals. Same site has translations for more CPI-Maoist texts though some I cannot link as they are word docs. http://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/#Founding_Documents

Here is their text outlining Marxism-leninism_Maoism and why they follow it, how they define it. You don't have to agree, it's not my tendency either; but don't just lie and pretend they are not MLM just so you can say you like them without contradicting your absolutist stance. It is literally just not the case, and being ignorant about it is kinda worse than supposedly being an "enlightened pluralist", cause I wouldn't call reading a group's own constitution "acting like every ideology is just as good as every other" http://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf

:mao-aggro-shining: follow Mao Zedong Thought:

No investigation, no right to speak