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What is the difference between Mao Zedong Thought and Maoism? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

MLMs reject various Maoist ideas like the three worlds theory. The principles they advocate for are in many ways indistinguishable from baseline Marxism-Leninism, they just take it a step further with dogmatism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dogmatism is a great way to describe it. Mao once said to support everything the enemy opposes and to oppose everything the enemy supports. I loved Mao’s quotations but that one sucks. If that quote isn’t an encapsulation of Dogmatism, I genuinely don’t know what else is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

i think the quote is taken out of context. i think he is more referring to a united front/revolutionary defeatism than for it to be taken 100% seriously. Mao wasn't an idiot

EDIT: found the context(in Selected Works Vol. 2) - he was indeed talking about a united front against Japan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it translates better in Chinese because it still sounds a bit off to me idk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Could be