Kinda silly since Maoism is considered to be mlism modified for Chinas conditions
You're thinking of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Though (the ideology of the CPC), where as Maoists follow Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, which was created by the Community Party of Peru - Shining Path. So the silliness makes more sense when you consider that these people are followers of the ideology of a guerilla army that was so brutal and dogmatic it effectively destroyed the left in Peru.
Do you think many internet twitter maoists meaningfully make a distinction? I just assumed most are thinking of the cpc since it’s successful and all. Though I didn’t spend any time looking at any of the accounts in this goofy internet drama
From what I understand, a lot of Maoists have a very negative few of the CPC, since they view the modern party as revisionist at best and consider Deng's reforms as a return to capitalism, so yes they do very much make the distinction between ML-MZT and MLM. That isn't to say that all Maoist think like that though, and I think a lot of the dogmatism seen from Maoists on twitter comes from:
Usually they will just deny the existence/validity of ML-MZT as a concept and call it "Dengism" instead, basically identical to Trots and "Stalinism" vs Marxism-Leninism, and instead claim MZT and MLM as basically the same/one leading directly into the other.
Ahhhh this is why I've never gotten along well with Maoists despite being an ML who likes MZT, didn't realize that they were following a tendency synthesized by baby boilers
You're thinking of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Though (the ideology of the CPC), where as Maoists follow Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, which was created by the Community Party of Peru - Shining Path. So the silliness makes more sense when you consider that these people are followers of the ideology of a guerilla army that was so brutal and dogmatic it effectively destroyed the left in Peru.
Do you think many internet twitter maoists meaningfully make a distinction? I just assumed most are thinking of the cpc since it’s successful and all. Though I didn’t spend any time looking at any of the accounts in this goofy internet drama
From what I understand, a lot of Maoists have a very negative few of the CPC, since they view the modern party as revisionist at best and consider Deng's reforms as a return to capitalism, so yes they do very much make the distinction between ML-MZT and MLM. That isn't to say that all Maoist think like that though, and I think a lot of the dogmatism seen from Maoists on twitter comes from:
Usually they will just deny the existence/validity of ML-MZT as a concept and call it "Dengism" instead, basically identical to Trots and "Stalinism" vs Marxism-Leninism, and instead claim MZT and MLM as basically the same/one leading directly into the other.
Fun take: When someone in the imperial core does this, I believe it's based in racism.
Ahhhh this is why I've never gotten along well with Maoists despite being an ML who likes MZT, didn't realize that they were following a tendency synthesized by baby boilers
i just assumed maoist was the word for mzt lol. wonder how many people self described as maoist i thought were based actually were cringe :ohnoes:
I've done it before so maybe it's a common misconception lmao
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