If this is too close to sectarianism I get it, but I keep hearing about Marxist-Leninist-Maoists at the periphery of other discussions and all I know about them is:
- they seem to be distinct from other Maoist tendencies
- their name is often shortened to Maoist in conversation
- the tendency is at least nominally a synthesis of Mao's writings into prior ML theory, done by someone named Gonzalo
- their reputation among MLs seems to be deviant
- I think the rapper Power Struggle alludes to being one, which is my sole investment in this question
There is a strain of Stalin/mao enthusiasts online who seem like the cartoon idea of a communist, defending every atrocity and misstep in the name of communism. I’m sure there is propaganda about both those events and leaders, but they are on the same level as patsocs to me
I wouldn't use the atrocity angle, the west loves playing this up. Atrocities definitely happened, but they always do in revolution
Ok but Cambodia’s killing fields. Are the PAVN counter revolutionaries who bought into a Western narrative, or was Pol Pot a western-assisted contra psyop?. I find it difficult to treat the democratic people’s republic of Kampuchea the same way as collectivization under Stalin or Mao, like the camps were the only way of constructing socialism in Cambodia.
If you prefer, I can condemn them as revisionists of Marxism
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