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.
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.