Whenever I hear of Marxist theory applied to the conditions of modern America it's always in relation to ML or Trotskyism, but I never hear Maoism brought up. Does Maoism have any application to current day America?
Whenever I hear of Marxist theory applied to the conditions of modern America it's always in relation to ML or Trotskyism, but I never hear Maoism brought up. Does Maoism have any application to current day America?
Being theoretically rigorous isn’t in itself a good thing when your theory is that you’re waging a a campaign against “revisionism” by interrupting DSA meetings to cosplay and abuse the elderly. .
In seriousness, the idea that guerilla war is the preferred tactic for all situations is anti-Marxist, and being “50 years ahead of the proletariat” is just another way of saying they demonstrably have no connection to the proletariat. You have to orient to consciousness and conditions as they currently exist, and raise the level from that point.
Mao often just told the peasants what they wanted to hear when recruiting them and later would later train them ideologically. This wasn't always the case, but still happened. He also gave food to people which helped.
Oh hey you brought that up as I was making my edit. That's what I mean by being 50 years ahead though. There's no reason to care about revisionism right now but in a revolutionary situation, I hope the DSA isn't in charge too.
I would argue that a guerilla war is kind of necessary even if it isn't desirable. it's not like we're going to be able to stage a coup d'etat. The main problem is starting it at the right time which a lot of Maoist zealots don't understand (again they're 50 years in the future when the US is 17 different countries, half of which are constantly on fire.)
I agree with your last point about being at the level of the workers though.
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Ultras are actually the ones I suspect will most quickly inform to the cops.