Honestly, even our boy :cmnd-marcos-pog: would be a better choice since he started out Standard Maoist and was forced to adapt hard because unlike Gonzalo he actually took the Mass Line seriously.

But the whole thing about the heads of Marxism-Leninism is about ideological contribution to the theory.

You're correct. Stalin didn't want to include himself on the banner of the Heads of Marxism-Leninism, because he himself didn't regard his work as ideological furtherments in the development of the ideology. To put it simply, he never viewed himself as an "inheritor of the mantle of Lenin" but simply as a student of Lenin.

It's mainly because the PCP were the ones that established the term Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The heads are supposed to represent a continuous through-line of ideological development of the distinct stages of revolutionary theory. It's kinda silly, but that's how we're doing things with philosophy I guess

I just think the heads are funny because they scare conservatives. I'm not a Maoist but I keep a wall scroll of Mao in my entryway just in case my landlord ever stops by.