A much-coveted title galaxy wide

While I'm not a fan of Mao Zedong himself, I do think the ideological synthesis known as Maoism is quite interesting. He took influence from anarchism as it was the dominant radical leftist ideological strain in Asia predating Marxism in the early 1900s. His focus on the lumpenproletariat and the "mass line" program were cues taken. I do believe Mao's various plans and Great Leap Forward failed because he didn't get rid of the state capitalist social relations, thus they could never make the leap to socialism and he ended up crippling his country, and China's early reliance on Soviet aid in their economic planning kinda played a part in this. I also don't like the way he would purposely rile up the people for a new revolution but then he fired back against them when they got too rowdy, or dissented in ways he didn't like.

I do believe he got to socialism after new democracy. I got a question thought how would he have gotten rid feudal relations without capitalism in this case the period of New Democracy, the whole point of it is to get rid of the feudal relations by intensifying capitalist relations then after the feudal relations are gone you can start construction of socialism. I feel like this would apply to all semi-feudal nations and as well maybe to indigenous groups as well.

Also yeah the reliance on soviet aid was one of the reasons the GLF ended up being the way it is, the criticism of Khrushchev leading to the Soviet Union pulling out aid unless Mao kept his mouth shut.

Always heard that Mao was an anarchist when he was younger as well never really seen any proof for it though.

Afghanistan is the proof of trying to solve the contradictions of capitalism in a feudal society

what do u mean by that ?

cause in my post the New Democracy period in China is what did that, it got rid of the feudal relations.

Idk much about the Taliban to comment on what they wanna do or whether if i think it would work or not

I’m talking about how the Afghan communists didn’t come close to achieving it

I’m not so sure a Maoist China would weaken or strengthen US Imperialism. It would likely remain the same as China even when it was much less industrialized after the civil war was a major rival to the US. A Maoist China has already held the United States at bay in the past during the Vietnam and Korean wars. As the US feared intervention from China. It would change a lot of things as China would likely no longer have interests in Africa and South America but would assert itself into things in India and the Philippines to support those revolutions.

Although I wouldn’t be so sure a Maoist revolution in China is impossible. There’s been several instances of graffiti in China praising Chairman Gonzalo and Mao outside of factories. Plus there’s been alot of reports in a surge of interest in Mao by Chinese youth.

This is kinda a general rundown, if you have questions about terms I can explain

Maoism (to Maoists) is a new stage of Marxism. It was developed by the Communist Party of Peru in the 70s/80s. It's been adopted across the world and today revolutions ongoing in Peru, Philippines, India and Turkey follow Maoism. There is mistakes that were in ML which Mao, and other Maoist revolutionaries explained and corrected.

A Few Things Maoism Introduces
Two Line Struggle
Protracted Peoples War
Mass Line
Placing importance on Crit/Self Crit
New Democracy
Theory of Contradictions
Theory of Knowledge

Maoists reject any type of electoralism in a capitalist nation, even if the candidates fall under a red banner. A famous slogan from Maoist orgs is "Don't Vote, Fight for Revolution." Most but not all Maoists also adhere to Gonzalo thought, those that do are called Principled Maoists

In the US there is several nationwide Maoist Orgs
All these orgs with the exception of FTP work together

Tribune of the People
United Neighborhood Defense Movement
For the People
Serve the People
Defend Our Hoodz
Red Aid
Popular Women's Movement
Committee to Reconstitute the Communist Party of the US

There's a lot of smaller local ones but those are the national ones I can think of

And then you got the Red Guards Austin

that s*** has to be a fed op

these fools rly attacked some old guy and trashed a DSA meeting in Kansas City

reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/eo9f9a/red_guards_austin_rga_have_assaulted_austin

what the f*** does this do to advance any type of agenda

Red Guards have been closed for over three years

They weren’t feds, one of their leaders was arrested and might still be in jail. They also had an FBI investigation being done into them.

One main goals of the Red Guards Austin, Red Guards LA, Charlotte, KC etc was to be aggressively anti revisionist. They closed because they realized that they needed to change strategies and do something else because what they were doing wasnt helping anything.

Most of the time when the got violent it was for a decent reason, they just never conveyed why and it made them look crazy.

One example is the PSL situation with the video you attached. The reason they confronted the PSL members was because they were harboring a known rapist within their chapter. Just a few months later that PSL chapter was shutdown by the national PSL branch.

So they were in the right to not allow a rapist to be organizing in their city, but they didn’t go about it in a way in which people would know that and be on their side.

Good. Wrecker scum

Next level LARP

yeah the Red Guard Austin overt focus revisionism on stuff like the Bolivarian Revolution that has very little connection to America working class was always my biggest gripe with them. The minimum they could have done was to relate it back to America rather than just saying f*** Venezuela they're revisionist and leave it at that, the audience should be the working class relate why Venezuela is revisionist back to them and why it would be a bad thing, the audience shouldn't be other weird ass commie nerds.

@Cudderwalks look what came in a few days ago

That’s hard as f***, did you print tht yourself?

nah got it off pggtpublishers.wordpress.com some small Canadian publishing house kinda like fourth sword in America

I’ll check them out, I have a few books from fourth sword but don’t like how all their stuff has the same cover.

Much agreed comrade, the growing Rank and Flie Committee movement, despite increasingly desperate denial from the pseudo-left Pabloite revisionist renegades, is striking fear into the hearts of the global imperialist monopoly bourgeoisie. Global capitalism, now more than 80 years into its terminal death agony, can only be transcended through the fulfillment of the objective historical revolutionary role of the class conscious proletariat. The emancipation of the proletariat must be the act of the proletariat itself - under the sole leadership, of course, of the one true world party of socialist revolution, the International Committee of the Fourth International. In their steadfast struggle against all forms of pseudo-left vulgarizations of revolutionary Marxism, David North and the SEP have won the Rank and File proletariat to a genuine Marxist program. The contradictions of global imperialism threaten a Third World War fought with nuclear weapons, and therefore the fate of not just the working class, but the human species itself, depends on resolutely exposing the Pabloites, Grantites, Cliffites, Healyites, Hansenites, Wohlforthites, Mandelites, Steinerites, and all other forms of counter-revolutionary opportunism blocking the path to left unity and planetary proletarian revolution. We urge all workers, youth, and intellectuals stirred by this call to action to unite in Rank and File Committees and to contact the International Committee today.

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