Mao Zedong

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Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 — 9 September 1976), also commonly known as Chairman Mao or Mao, was born in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, and was the most important modern Chinese leader, patriot, revolutionary, statesman, strategist and Marxist theorist. Mao was one of the founding figures of the Communist Party of China and the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), leading the country from 1949 until his death in 1976. He was responsible for the development of Mao Zedong Thought (MZT), which, synthesizing the Chinese experience, has made profound contributions to the development of Marxism-Leninism as a whole.

Haz al-Din:

I am a Maoist and always have been. In fact people think my secret is being Nazbol. No, my open secret is being true Maoist.

Early Life

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Civil War

WIP

Leadership of the People's Republic of China

New Democracy

An NEP-type period.

The Great Leap Forward

A transition to socialism full of setbacks.

Mao Zedong Thought

Mao Zedong Thought is usually considered to have the following elements.

Protracted People's War

People's War was described by Mao as the "revolutionary struggle of the vast majority of people against the exploiting classes and their state structures". This struggle would feature rural populations mobilizing against urban population centers through guerilla warfare, achieving victory via the country surrounding the cities.

Mass Line

The Mass Line is a development derived from the idea of the Vanguard Party by Vladimir Lenin. It can be summarized through the phrase "To the masses - from the masses - to the masses". This strategy entails the gathering of scattered ideas from the masses, developing those ideas into a codified strategy and relaying this plan back to the masses for its implementation. This cycle of learning and subsequently teaching the masses is intended to be an infinite loop.

"Maoism"

Haz wrote this on Maoist ultra-leftists:

The problem isn’t Maoism. The problem is Kant.

Gonzalo was a hardcore Kantian professor and American ‘Maoists’ are Kantian fanatics.

Gonzalo twisted Mao’s dualistic dialectic to mean Kant’s unreconciled unhappy consciousness. Fanaticism of the categorical imperative.

It’s a parody of the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution that Mao responded to by sending the fanatical red guards down to the countryside.

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In case you think I’m joking. He later formed a philosophy group about the implications of Kant for revolution. This is his origin.

Gonzalo and Western Social Democratic thinking both have origin in Kantian deviation from Marxism.

This explains why the American ‘Maoists’ adopted Baizuo progressivism and teamed up with DSA against real Marxists.

See also: Haz Debates a Maoist on China & the Cultural Revolution.