Maoism

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communist ideology political ideology revolutionary ideology

Maoism is a variant of communist ideology developed from Marxism–Leninism that emphasizes peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, and continuous class struggle under a vanguard party.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Mao Zedong Thought	22
Maoism (1960s–1970s)	1
corpus of Mao Zedong Thought	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	communist ideology ⓘ political ideology ⓘ revolutionary ideology ⓘ
associatedWith	Great Leap Forward policies ⓘ surface form: Great Leap Forward People’s Liberation Army strategy ⓘ agrarian revolution ⓘ
basedOn	Leninism ⓘ Marxism ⓘ Marxism–Leninism ⓘ
coreConcept	class struggle under socialism ⓘ continuous revolution ⓘ cultural revolution ⓘ mass line ⓘ new democratic revolution ⓘ peasant-led revolution ⓘ people’s democratic dictatorship ⓘ protracted people’s war ⓘ vanguard party leadership ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	China ⓘ
developedBy	Mao Zedong ⓘ
emergedInDecade	1930s ⓘ
emergedInPeriod	20th century ⓘ
emphasizes	armed struggle in the countryside ⓘ central role of the peasantry in revolution ⓘ continuous class struggle after seizure of power ⓘ encirclement of cities from the countryside ⓘ ideological remolding of the masses ⓘ party rectification campaigns ⓘ
hasVariant	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism ⓘ
ideologicalText	On New Democracy ⓘ On Protracted War ⓘ Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung ⓘ
influenced	Chinese Communist Party ⓘ Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path ⓘ Communist Party of the Philippines ⓘ Cultural Revolution ⓘ surface form: Cultural Revolution in China Khmer Rouge ⓘ Maoist insurgency in India ⓘ surface form: Naxalite movement in India Nepalese Maoist movement ⓘ
opposes	bourgeois democracy ⓘ capitalism ⓘ imperialism ⓘ revisionism ⓘ
supports	collectivization of agriculture ⓘ democratic centralism ⓘ one-party socialist state ⓘ public ownership of the means of production ⓘ
views	imperialism as principal global enemy ⓘ national liberation as part of world revolution ⓘ peasants as principal revolutionary force in semi-feudal societies ⓘ

Referenced by (53)

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Long March → associatedIdeology → Maoism ⓘ

Serve the People → associatedWithIdeology → Maoism ⓘ

Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era → basedOn → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Constitution of the People's Republic of China → definesLeadingIdeology → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Marxism–Leninism–Maoism → developedFrom → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Marxism–Leninism–Maoism → hasCoreTheory → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Chinese Marxism → hasPart → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Cambodian Civil War → ideologicalContext → Maoism ⓘ

Lushan Conference of 1959 → ideologicalContext → Maoism ⓘ

On Protracted War → ideologicalOrientation → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

CPC → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Chen Yi → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Chinese Communist Party → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

CCP → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

subject surface form: Chinese Communist Party

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Chinese Revolution → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Chinese Soviet Republic → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Cultural Revolution → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Gang of Four → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Mao Zedong essay "In Memory of Norman Bethune" → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

subject surface form: In Memory of Norman Bethune

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Jiang Qing → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Khmer Rouge → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Li Shumeng → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Lin Biao → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Mao Zedong → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Organization Department → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

subject surface form: Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Propaganda Department → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

subject surface form: Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Red Guards → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Selected Works of Mao Zedong → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Teng Daiyuan → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

United Front Work Department → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Xin Si Jun → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Zhou Enlai → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Zhu De → ideology → Maoism ⓘ

Mao Zedong family → ideologyAssociated → Maoism ⓘ

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party → ideologyContext → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Marxism–Leninism → influenced → Maoism ⓘ

On Contradiction → influenced → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Deng Xiaoping Theory → influencedBy → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

Selected Works of Mao Zedong → mainSubject → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought

On Contradiction → partOf → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: corpus of Mao Zedong Thought

On Practice → philosophicalSchool → Maoism ⓘ

On Contradiction → philosophicalTradition → Maoism ⓘ

Jean-Luc Godard → politicalAlignment → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maoism (1960s–1970s)

Lan Ping → politicalIdeology → Maoism ⓘ

Li Yunhe → politicalIdeology → Maoism ⓘ

Deng Xiaoping Theory → precededBy → Maoism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mao Zedong Thought