Talk:Maoism

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philosophy Portal

This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Philosophy, which collaborates on articles related to philosophy. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.

High

This article has been rated as high-importance on the importance scale.

This article is part of WikiProject China, a project to improve all China-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other China-related articles, please join the project. All interested editors are welcome.

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.

[edit] But what IS it?

This article does a very good job tracing the history of Maoism, but doesn't talk very much about what it actually is. What are its defining features? How does it differ from Marxism, or Stalinism, or Trotskyism, or Marxism-Leninism, or Kimilsungism, or Revised Anarchistic Pseudo-Neo-Mostelism-Trotskyism, or any of the other myriad ideological varieties of Communism? —WikiMarshall (talk) 20:27, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

I second this. I know very little about Communism or its variants. After reading this I know a little bit about the status of Maoist groups, but not what they claim to be fighting for. What is Maoism, and how does it differ from the original Marxist Communist model? Aasmith (talk) 11:47, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree. The article should include both the history of the Maoist movement as well as description of Maoism as an ideological tendency. However, this is easier said than done, although some things are quite basic (focus on peasantry, people's war, anti-revisionism). --Soman (talk) 12:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Same here. I actually came to the Talk Page raise a concern over the lack of definition. All the article says is "Marxist-Leninist ideals with a Chinese interpretation"? What is the Chinese interpretation?! Geosultan4 (talk) 00:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I think this is the single most important thing that should appear in this article: a definition of what IS maoism. I put this discussion thread on top. 76.10.182.247 (talk)

There's nothing to say what Maoism is, though there's something on the history of it. Autarch (talk) 19:46, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

You'd have to have read all of Mao's work to really understand what "Maoism" incorporates. I came here expecting a good summary and see how Wikipedia addressed this issue. I was thoroughly dissapointed. This is a gaping hole that MUST be fixed. Colipon+(T) 18:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Maoism", MLM and historically pro-Chinese parties

"Since the death of Mao and the reforms of Deng, most of the parties explicitly defining themselves as "Maoist" have disappeared...."

To my understanding, Maoism was not a general term of self-designation among revolutonary communists until the development of MLM, under the auspices of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement. The text here seems to confuse pro-Chinese parties, who did not make a transformation to "Maoism" and used the ideological tag "Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought," as does the Chinese state to this day. "Maoism" is specifically "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism," also known more colloquially as revolutionary communism, a whole set of ideas that are qualitatively distinct from other varieties of ML politics. This is a little jargon-laden, but I wanted to put it up and get responses before editing this text. Maoism has grown substantially over the last fifteen years as a distinct political trend. I also don't think getting "press" from the MSM is the measure of revolutions. What makes them important isn't that the Times occassional checks in, but that the only explicitly communist revolutions of the past twenty years have been "Maoist" in ideological color. In the Stacks 17:41, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mao Tse-Tung vs. Mao Zedong

Just wondering why it still reads Mao Tse-Tung... I was under the impression that most modern academics refer to him as Mao Zedong now. Sasquatcht|c 21:45, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Civilian control of the military

Hello, I'm currently attempting to expand the Civilian control of the military article at the moment and in the process am trying to globalize the term beyond an exclusively American usage (though I think that is the context in which it is most frequently applied). To that end, I've recently attempted to add some material on Mao's political-military theories, which as I understand them emphasized the primacy of the Party and the politicization of the military. If any editors more knowledgeable in this subject than I would like to correct or expand my summary in the civilian control article, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 09:09, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maoism today

Should there be any mention of Maoism in Nepal and to a lesser extent Southern India (Andhra Pradesh). The militant side of both have been documented but are their interpretations of Maoist ideology different? Fkh82 16:44, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, very open to interpretation and isolated at that. Colipon+(T) 17:37, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

There's something very funny with this article. The Communist Party of New Zealand but no Khmers Rouges? Wow, that's informative!

Must be because they didn't consider themselves a Maoist or Mao Zedong Thought group. Comzero 20:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, that's news to me. According to Haing S. Ngor's "Surviving the Killing Fields", almost everything about the Khmers Rouges was Chinese-inspired, including some very badly dubbed Maoist propaganda songs.

[edit] Maoism in Democratic Kampuchea: a Cambodian writes

From Haing S. Ngor's Surviving the Killing Fields:

They wanted to eliminate everything that was not Cambodian. But they were hypocrites. Everything about the Khmer Rouge was alien, from China. They borrowed their ideology from Mao Tse-Tung, like the concept of the great leap forward. Sending the intellectuals to the countryside to learn from the peasants was an idea of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Their AK-47s and their olive-green caps and their trucks were Chinese. Even the music they played from the loudspeakers was Chinese with Khmer words. (p.216)

To me the fault didn't lie with an individual man but with an outside country: China. For four years I had been looking at Chinese trucks, Chinese-made weapons and Chinese-made uniforms. Almost everything about the Khmer Rouge from the jargon about "independence-sovereignty" to sending city people to learn from the peasants in the countryside was an imitation of Mao Tse-Tung's Cultural Revolution. Without China, the Khmer Rouge could never have come to power, or stayed in power as long as they did. (page 391)

--Folantin 10:13, 23 July 2006 (UTC) (no doubt a "bourgeois imperialist" or some such).

[edit] Link to Comunist Party of Japan (maoist)

Can someone link to this page. I cant find it now (i found it time ago). Its in japanese lenguage. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.230.126.35 (talk) 17:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Vandalism!

The user

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/76.105.83.212

has exchanged Mao Zedong thought with "leighton Cheng thought" throughout this article. This person should be blocked. Tronogrim, user of the norwegian wikipedia, 2007-04-22 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.48.140.40 (talk) 04:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC).

There is also someone else adding the following external links. They're not good or reliable information sources. I am very new to wikipedia, if someone knows how to block or intervene in some way to prevent this please let me know.

Monkey Smashes Heaven Maoist Theory & Commentary
Maoist Information Web Site Maoist theory, culture and document archive

Peopleriseup (talk) 07:05, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merger with "Anti-revisionism"

I am removing the template as per reasons on that page's talk page. Should you want to restore, please state your reasons.--Cerejota 05:44, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Neutral Point of View

The article opens with "The implementation of Maoist thought in China was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime,[2][3] with the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. And is still popular in other parts of the world amongst communist groups still using violence to propagate revolution, including Peru and Nepal.[4][5]."

First, both of the first two articles reference the same source, one is simply a brief and largely uncritical non-academic review article. Second, the claim that "the implementation of Maoist thought was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime" is very controversial and represents the upper bounds of all claims. Third, other ideology-related articles typically do not attribute deaths to the philosophy. The article "Stalinism" has a box at the bottom, which actually attributes a range of 14 to 43 million deaths to the People's Republic of China. The article "Nazism" references deaths within the text of the article but does not open with a bold and extreme claim, and "Fascism" makes little reference at all to killings. Likewise, "Liberalism" does not make any reference at all to state-sponsored killings or engaging in policies predictably resulting in deaths. Finally, the paragraph is poorly written.

My suggestion would be a section towards the end titled "Criticisms of Maoism." The section could quote sources that directly attribute the deaths caused by particular state actions to the philosophy of Maoism. It could also contain a rough range, including how controversy over inclusion of Great Leap famine deaths can radically alter that number. Beyond this, these claims are not held against any sort of firm baseline. It may seem crude, but if the increase in the death rate is attributable to Mao (let alone Maoism) in some years, then presumably this would mean Mao(ism) "saved" tens of millions of lives over time given the overall fall in the rate during the rough period of his rule. Of course, Maoists would expand that number in suggesting that more years of war and exploitation were the alternative, and critics of his economic policies could rightly flip the number if they think liberal-capitalist development would have improved conditions more rapidly and evenly without the Great Leap famine. However, I think that giving a sense of all of this in a "Criticisms of Maoism" section would be sufficient.

Donald Hughes 11:01, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

"It's an encyclopdedia, dude. So relax. Having critical perspectives here (and everywhere) is not up for negotiation. You think NPOV means "confirms my worldview", or it would if this is what you call NPOV. It is ironic, and unfortunate, that those who advocate for liberty find criticism such an imposition.[[User:In the Stacks|"

adding back the info that you want to sensor per your own view above. Hardyplants 07:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Attacks on civilians play zero role in Maoist military strategy, which is a developed military science and political orientation. It is called, by it's technical name, People's War. The defining characteristics are devloping oragns of local political power among the rural lower classes while building mobile, positional warfare on that basis. The basic watchward, as articulated by Mao in the decades long struggle in China was "do not steal a single needle or piece of thread from the masses". Further, while the specifics of the Nepalese civil war are not to be debated out here on an entry regarding Maoism as a philosophy and global political movement, strikes at elite private schools in countries where the caste system was until recently enshrined in law are not the same thing as "attacks on civilians," nor does the decontexturalized quote from AI address that. Forbidding the poor from attending school is a human rights violation, which apparently you have no opinion about. As this is off-topic, and an attempt to stack this entry with nothing but propaganda, I will be removing your edits.In the Stacks 14:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

So Maoism teaches that children are not civilians, and are fair targets for bombing, if they have rich parents...gives me a better understanding why the Beatles didn't like Mao. Since most of the world does not see it that, and children are civilians, it goes back in as demonstrative of Maoism in action in the real world. Hardyplants 01:19, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] general clean-up

This article is kind of all over the place. It needs clarification of the cardianl issues regarding Maoism, which at this point has little to do with the avowedly anti-Maoist government of China. In particular, Mao's military theories which are widely regarding as the defining texts of popular-based guerilla warfare, the issue of popular mobilization against capitalist restoration in nominally socialist countries, social issues of gender equality, his critique of Soviet economics (e.g. Grasp Revolution, Promote Production), the distinction between Marxism-Leninism and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism today, a more comprehensive listing of self-declared Maoist organizations today and a greater all-around focus on "Maoism" outside of the simply Chinese context. As this communists are often involved in civil wars, strong feelings are no doubt involved with partisans on all sides of the issue. With that said, special care should be taken to avoid simply adding incendiary (and fundamentally disputed) claims of what "maoists" are. In other words, they are not simply what every would-be godking (either the Dalai Lama or Gyanendra in Nepal) would claim they are. That's sort of like asking the descendents of the French monarchy about the French revolution...In the Stacks 15:03, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

One, this article is disorganized and uninformative. Two, the article name, in my opinion, should be formally named "Mao Zedong Thought" and in the article inform that it is sometimes called Maoism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.197.82.49 (talk) 20:24, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MIM

The article is about Maoism, not how big Maoist Parties are. Excluding MIM is POV. --Mista-X 16:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

No, it is in line with WP:UNDUE. MIM is an extremly marginal phenomenon, and gets undue attention mainly because its based in the englisg-speaking world and has heavy internet presence. My opinion, is that 'Maoism today' should focus on the two main international tendencies of international maoism, the one around CPP/MLPD and RIM, not mention every blog or website around. --Soman 17:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

MIM came out of the Students for Democratic Society, it is part of the Maoist trends in the west. WP:PAPER, there is room for one paragraph on MIM. It is notable enough for it's own wiki article, and should be mentioned. The article is about Maoism, not Maoist parties. Since their ideology has a shift from RCP(USA), it is worth mentioning to note. the article is about ideology/philosophy, so should not be judged on how big the org or party is. Also, PCR-RCP is very small outside of Quebec and is mentioned. If your justification is size, then they should be removed as well. --Mista-X 18:25, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

MIM's website has noted that they have fallen below the "critical" mass needed to maintain even the semblance of an organization. They have less than 5 members, and it appears that the person who upkeeps their website is deranged. In over 20 years of left-wing activism in several cities, I've never encountered an actual member of this so-called organization. Call that "POV" or original research, even a cursory glance at their website should clear up the issue of their non-existence as an organization.In the Stacks 18:21, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I would liek to know how you know they only have 5 members? Also, the current membership is irrelevant, even if the organization no longer exists anymore it should be mentioned. The article is about Maoism, not Maoist Parties. I have met people from RAIL on a few occasions, and have interacted with MIM supporters online, so none of your points are even relevant. --Mista-X 18:25, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

MIM's article on language also appeared in Harper's, I think this establishes some more interest/notability. --Mista-X 18:30, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

MIM is a) given far to much prominence in various webforums, mainly people whose knowledge of Maoism starts with a superficial google search, b) is not really representative of Maoism, but a fringe phenomena. --Soman 19:27, 17 September 2007

(UTC)

"fringe phenomena" is your POV. I don't need to be told what is Maoism, I've been studying Marxism for 6 years almost daily and am involved in a Marxist-Leninist party. Just because you don't like MIM, doesn't mean other people would not be interested in their interpretation of Marxism and contribution to the debate on modern questions of imperialism and the labour aristocracy. Whether MIM is small or not, they have established the ability to put forward theory and challenge other parties calling themselves Maoist. If they have made significant theoretical contribuitions to modern politics they deserve to be mentioned in an article about Maoism. --Mista-X 21:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia should reflect existing phenomena, not a site for promotion of individual interpretations. There are lots of internet forums, blogs, etc., making arguments heard. MIM has certainly put lots of energy, and constistently of a large period of time, in establishing web presence. The fact that a handfull of individuals in the US try reformulate Maoist doctrines does not change the essence of Maoism as it is exists as a political movement or ideology IRL. For example, if you want to discuss Maoism and the nation question, it is far more relevant to discuss attitudes of Indian, Nepali or Filipino maoists towards the issue, rather than the line of MIM. --Soman 21:33, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Lets take a break for a day or so- one edit war at a time. We do not have room for every splinter group out there, here on this page. Is this group promoting a different "form" of Maoism? if not it should not be here. And if it is, is it notable enough to include, does it have enough influence that other Maoist organizations respond to it and is it noticed by main stream sources? Hardyplants 22:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

It isn't really promoting a different form of Maoism, and I don't dismiss everything it says on certain theoretical issues as deranged. But MIM is totally insane in regard to other Maoist parties or currents, for example it claims that Bob Avakian and the RCP USA are agents of the US State Dept! I don't think it's relevant enough to be included in the article.

ServeThePeople, 1/10/07. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.49.116.200 (talk) 03:27, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed without consensus

I like how MIM was completely purged from the article with no consensus. This is obviously by people with a certain agenda / perspective and should not be allowed to happen on wikipedia.--Mista-X (talk) 21:00, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Khmer Rouge were Maoists

I know no ideological group or any group at all generally would want to be linked to them, but they were funded heavily by the Chinese Stalinists and the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia prompted the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, not to mention Pol Pot based his revolution on the peasnatry rather than the urban workers (partly a reason for the desertion of Pnom Penn). Maybe I'm wrong and the Communist Party of China funded them to have Cambodia side economically to China and the Invasion of Vietnam was a result of this bad investment, but as far as I have ever heard KR were Maoists and made no secret of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.25.17.47 (talk) 19:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

One has to separate between two things here. The Communist Party of Kampuchea (a.k.a. Khmer Rouge) was certainly on the Chinese side in the split between Soviet Union and China within the world communist movement. Notably, they borrowed some political concepts China, and had largely good relations with China. However, the internal sitaution in CPK was complex, there was a pro-Soviet group, a pro-Chinese (and Maoist oriented) group and an independent group. The latter was led by Pol Pot and was victorious in the inner-party struggle, and liquidated the Maoist nucleus of the pro-China group. --Soman (talk) 21:06, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

A quick search of the DC-Cam website reveals lots of accounts in which the KR are described as the Maoists. Certainly if you visit Tuol Sleng or Choeung Ek you will see lots of references to Maoism. Who is Wikipedia to argue with the Cambodian people about their history? 210.9.140.64 (talk) 14:50, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

And then there's the Google test: "1 - 50 of about 52,200 for khmer rouge maoist." I browsed briefly the first page of hits: most were real, fair dinkum references to the Khmer Rouge as Maoists. What ever happened to WP:OR? Wikipedians engaging in revisionist history? 210.9.140.64 (talk) 15:03, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

That is clearly a faulty methodology of research. There are various sources which portray KR as Maoists, like [1], but my reading of the top 50 doesn't really bring out a strong case for the point that KR would have been Maoists. Quite many of the sites that come up are comparisons between Nepali Maoists and KR. I base my understanding of the differentiations of factions inside the KR mainly upon Ben Kiernan's How Pol Pot came to Power. Fact remains, CPK never fully embraced MLMTT. --Soman (talk) 08:11, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Who finances DC-Cam? And what is the argument exactly about here? --Soman (talk) 14:58, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

"Who finances DC-Cam?" Well, that was an unexpected response, with its implication of partiality! As far as I can see, the argument is about whether the KR deserves a mention on a page on Maoism (which already refers to such high-profile organisations as the Communist Party of New Zealand!) 210.9.140.64 (talk) 15:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

And because you asked so nicely: [2] Primarily Cambodian, North American and European universities and governments, along with some Africans, Australians, et al. 210.9.140.64 (talk) 15:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, its of course a rhetorical question. There was an obvious fallacy in the logic that we should 'argue with the Cambodian people', since the KRT and DC-Cam projects are, in essence, products of the wishes of Western powers to write history in a way that suits them. That doesn't accuse the Khmer Rouge, my comment from April 15 certainly would not seen as pro-KR. The tag 'Maoist' is problematic, since it has no clear definition in this case. In some way the Khmer Rouge were on the Chinese side in the Sino-Soviet dispute and utilized many Maoist political concepts, but it was not doctrinary Maoists in the sense of say, the Thai communists. --Soman (talk) 16:13, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow, I didn't realise I was in conspiracy theorist central.

WP:OR still applies. 210.9.140.64 (talk) 01:11, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Khmer Rouge were not Maoist. But Pol-Pot did start to call himself a Maoist after Mao died. This was most likely to ally with China. See [3] and [4]. --Mista-X (talk) 20:51, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Can not find the origina--Gary123 (talk) 15:02, 29 May 2008 (UTC)l Chinese words for "Progress is born in chaos. And originality comes from destruction"

The quote of "Progress is born in chaos. And originality comes from destruction." seems not reliable. The link is the only one page I can find by searching in google with these key words.

I guess "And originality comes from destruction" refers to 不破不立。The full sentence is "不破不立，不塞不流，不止不行。". "Progress is born in chaos" seems come from nowhere. Nextop (talk) 18:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps more important than the particularities of this (apparently) fabricated quote is that no Maoist organization or ideological work makes reference to this quote. It only seems to appear in anti-Mao propaganda, and has no bearing on the ideology of Maoism. This is not an entry for Mao Zedong, but for Maoism.In the Stacks (talk) 21:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Split Chinese Marxism and Maoism

Perhaps we should have a separate article on Chinese Marxism that focuses on the pre-Mao and post-Mao Chinese theories and an article on Maoism focusing more on the 3rd world outside China. --Gary123 (talk) 15:02, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] From GSE

entry in Great Soviet Encyclopedia, [5], translated through google:

"Maoism, Marxism-Leninism hostile petit bourgeois-nationalist Over in the Communist Party of China. Maoism is a conglomerate subektivistsko-volyuntaristicheskih, vulgar-materialist ideas opposed Marxist philosophy, political economy, scientific communism, proletarian strategy and tactics of the world communist movement. Maoism is designed to justify the adventurous policies "barracks communism". The cornerstone of Maoizm is antisovetizm.

In a separate platform Maoizm emerged in the late 50 - ies of the 20 century. The emergence Maoizm directly linked to the activities of Mao Tsze-dunum. At 9 - m congress of the CPC (1969) Maoizm, known officially in China "Mao's ideas Tsze-dunum", was declared a "theoretical basis for defining the idea of CPC", and proclaimed a "Marxism-Leninism modern era". These estimates were confirmed and 10 - m congress of the CPC (1973).

The process of forming Maoizm linked with the struggle of two major trends in the CPC - internatsionalistskoy and petit bourgeois-nationalist. The Maoists have put forward the idea of "national Marxism", "Chinese Communism", which was formalized in documents 7 - the first congress of CPC (1945). Under the signboard "universal truths compounds Marxism-Leninism with the practice of the Chinese revolution", "kitaizatsii Marxism-Leninism" petit bourgeois-natsionalistich. elements in the CPC started to attack the root of the provisions of international revolutionary nature of the teachings of the working class.

Maoism is highly eclecticism, subjectivity in theory and volyuntarizm in politics. Ideology Maoizm absorbed many traditional views of ancient Chinese political and philosophical thought, the principles of equalization primitive peasant movements, as well as a number of concepts kitaetsentristskih reformers end 19 - the start of 20 centuries: Tan Sy-tun, Kem YU-veh, Liang Qi-tea, gomindanovskuyu concept nationalism. At Maoizm much influenced by anarchism and revisionist tendencies in the communist movement, especially trotskyism. Do anarchists Mao Tsze-dunum borrowed principles such as absolute violence ( "rise to power rifle", "revolt - cause is just"), reliance on neproletarskie, d elements and politically immature youth segments for "organization" revolutions without taking into account the revolutionary situation. Maoism trotskistskuyu essentially borrowed the concept of "perpetual revolution" and believes that the victory of socialism without the complete destruction of imperialism is impossible. Maoism argues that under conditions of socialism, including its mature stage, is constantly struggle between socialist and capitalist ways of development, there is a threat to the restoration of capitalism and that in order to prevent this danger needed "revolution". Samples of such a "revolution" and declared so. Cultural Revolution, held under the leadership of Mao Tsze-dunum in the 2 - and half of 60 - ies. Such "revolution", is essentially a form of total cleansing and massacres with real and potential adversaries Maoizm should, on the statements Maoists, repeated periodically.

Maoism in fact denies the objective laws of building socialism and communism, teaching about the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party as the vanguard working class, socialist democracy replaces dictatorship of the military-bureaucratic factions, fostered a personality cult, to minimize the role of the people. Maoism denies indigenous socialist principles of humanism.

In politics, instead of proletarian class lines Maoizm resorted to bonapartistskomu manoeuvring (see Bonapartizm) between different classes and social layers. Declarative Declaring that "the working class directs all", Mao Tsze-dunum actually holds line on the marginalization of the working class of China.

The Maoists are seeking to eliminate in practice methods and forms of organization and planning of the economy prevailing in the first decade of existence, the PRC under the influence of experience of world socialism and, above all, the Soviet Union. Contrary to Leninism, Maoizm sees poverty, backwardness of the country, deprivation of the masses as the inherent attributes of life under socialism, and even as factors favouring the alleged construction of a new society. Caring for the growing welfare of the people Maoizm announces "revisionism", "reactionary ekonomizmom", leading to the bourgeois "reincarnation". Conservation of poverty and backwardness Maoists to allow maximum development funds for military machine.

In the field of philosophy Maoizm declares commitment dialectical and historical materialism, but in fact the audit of all its principles from the perspective of subjectivism, vulgar materialism and primitive interpreted dialectics, turns into a means of utilitarian philosophy-pragmatic policy justification.

Recognizing the universality contradictions Maoizm however absolyutiziruet time and ignores the fight of opposites or extreme to minimize the role of the unity of opposites. At the same time Maoizm prohibitive expands the manifestations of antagonistic contradictions, treating them as general as well neantagonisticheskie contradictions - as a special case antagonistic. The law of unity and struggle of opposites boils down to their mechanical counter ( "Cap no bottom, no beauty without repugnant") and a change of seats between opposites ( "bad turns into good", and "proletariat - in the bourgeoisie", "turns into a world war, War - in the world "). In gnoseology Maoizm inherent Empiricism justifies uzkoutilitarny approach to understanding the practice as only direct physical participation in the productive individual or political activities. Maoism simplifies the problem of cognition, to minimize the theoretical thinking and his cognitive ability and simultaneously reduces the scope of social practices.

In understanding the criterion of truth Maoizm meshed with pragmatism, arguing: "generally speaking, that is completed successfully, correctly, but that fails, mistakenly" (Mao Tsze-dunum, Four work on philosophy, Beijing, 1968, pp. 195 ).

For the theory and practice Maoizm characterized by sharp fluctuations in the side very "left" extremism and volyuntarizma, the right reformizma. Subjectivity Maoizm clearly detected in the thesis on "the need to constantly create contradictions", which finds expression in politics in a continuous maintenance of a climate of tension within society, as well as in the quest to solve any economic, political and cultural problems through successive one another massive campaign of intimidation population "foreign threat ", purges and so on.

In 1958 Mao Tsze-dunum course put forward "three red banners" - the new "general line", "great leap" and "people's commune". These policies led the country to economic crisis. It took more quinquennium, to restore the level of the economy that existed before the start of "great leap". In foreign policy in this period, the Maoists began an open attack on the Soviet Union and seriously undermined the Soviet-Chinese relations, launched a divisive activities in the international communist movement, organized the military clashes with neighbouring countries and taken a number of other adventurous shares on the world stage. At 9 - and 10 m - m CPC congresses antisovetizm was raised to the level of Party and state doctrine, and slanderous USSR declared enemy mainly China. Maoism is trying to justify the evil policies antisovetizma false allegations about the existence of "irreconcilable fundamental differences" between the PRC and the USSR. In fact, is the real source antisovetizma ideology velikohanskogo chauvinism, which naturally comes in a clash with the principles of proletarian internationalism, uphold the CPSU and other Marxist-Leninist parties. Anti-Sovietism and the Maoists used as a means to justify its policy of militarization and workers divert attention from serious internal difficulties and unresolved problems. Maoism circulate slander on the restoration of capitalism in socialist countries, denies the existence of the world socialist system.

Maoism seeks to preserve pockets of international tension, efforts to derail the socialist countries and all peace-loving forces to eliminate them, to block the struggle of peoples the world over the expansion of detente and disseminate it to all the continents, uphold the principles of peaceful coexistence of nations with different social system.

General through international communist movement on Indigenous issues of world development Maoizm contrasts their adventurous attitude. The Maoists emanate from the inevitability of World War II, seeing it as a means of "healing mankind", as a source of world revolution.

To bolster its hegemonic claims to leadership in "third world" Maoists are trying to prove that the center revolutionary movement shifted into a zone of the national liberation movement, as alleged socialist countries "reborn", a working class developed capitalist countries "oburzhuazilsya" and lost the Revolution.

Evidence of a complete break with the Maoists proletarian class approach in foreign policy and principles of socialist internationalism is propoveduemaya their theory of "the struggle against the hegemony of the two superpowers".

At the international meeting of communist and workers parties 1969, most delegations described as a dangerous Maoizm antimarksistskoe during which their subversive acts and policies antisovetizma objectively playing the role of facilitator and anti-imperialism.

Maoism creates serious obstacles construction of socialism, it leads to deformities and threatens the gains of China's socialist workers' decision prevents the underlying socio-economic problems, creates one after the other crises in the country, discredited scientific socialism.

Maoism is seeking to split the international communist movement, the anti-Front peoples. For these purposes, and used arisen in some countries, groups of adherents Maoizm However, these groups are virtually isolated from the revolutionary workers' movement and most often fall.

As antinauchnoe, contradicting laws during public development, Maoizm besperspektiven.

LTL.: Materials XXIV Congress of the CPSU, Maoizm, 1971; International Meeting of Communist and workers parties, Maoizm, 1969; ZH.-E. Vidal, Where China leads Group Mao Tsze-dunum, translated from French, Maoizm, 1967, Vladimir O. E., Ryazantsev VI, s political biography of Mao Tsze-dunum, 2 ed., Maoizm, 1973; dangerous course. Collected in. 1-4, Maoizm, 1969-73; Altai Maoizm, V. Georgiev, Antimarksistskaya essence of Mao's philosophical views Tsze-dunum, Maoizm, 1969; Maoizm eyes of the Communists. [Collection of articles], Maoizm, 1969: Maoizm without masks. Collection of articles, Maoizm, 1970; Criticism theoretical concepts Mao Tsze-dunum, Maoizm, 1970; Rumyantsev A. Maoizm, Origins and Evolution of "Mao's ideas Tsze-dunum". (On antimarksistskoy essence of Maoism), Maoizm, 1972; Criticism of the theoretical foundations of Maoism, Maoizm, 1973.

Maoism L. Altai." --Soman (talk) 15:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)