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Rails?
Two line struggle
oh... well, I wouldn't struggle here.
wtf OP is pushing maoism, clear downvote.
You're clearly a unique thinker and not influenced at all by decades of anticommunist propaganda.
https://mronline.org/2006/09/21/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
I encourage you to refute the information in the article on the basis of its content, not who wrote it!
DSA Liberation Caucus is good.
cerra el orto gringo a nadie le importa un carajo lo que pienses
It's always someone from feddit who does lib shit
There are a lot of fans of Mao on Lemmy, Lemmy was made by communists. Less Maoist, more Marxist-Leninists though (which Mao considered himself to be).
maoists aren't marxists?
They are. Mao was a Marxist-Leninist, and Marxist-Leninists support Mao (for most things, at least, same as Stalin, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, etc.). "Maoism," however, is a branch of Marxism that diverges from Marxism-Leninism, as Maoists believe Mao took Marxism to a new, higher universal level. I disagree with this idea, as do many people on Lemmy.
In short, Mao was a fantastic Marxist-Leninist, but some view him as more than that and as having created new universal strategies and analysis, and these people are Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, rather than Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought. The CPC follows Marxism-Leninism Xi Jinping Thought, which carries forward Mao Zedong Thought but rejects "Maoism," as an example.
MZT - Mao's application of Marxism-Leninism to China's conditions as contemporary to his era
Maoism - MZT but universal, plus some other stuff from Gonzalo and Sison.
Maoists believe the CPC is "revisionist," usually rejecting most modern AES states.
ML+MZT has so many good morsels in it.
Yep, there's a lot of good stuff in Mao!
Funny how the article you replied to exactly addresses your present behaviour.