Maoism
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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.
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)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mao Zedong Thought