To be honest its a Frankenstein’s Monster of a political philosophy so maoist maybe too narrow of a term, maybe itll fit with the 1989 Tiananmen square protests but not sure. Not a historian just know China isn’t cookie cutter socialist/Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist…
Yeah calling China Maoist is pretty silly. They celebrate their former revolutionary leader but he was a lousy economist, and his last attempt to concentrate power in his revolutionary principles, the Cultural Revolution, was a shitshow. Mao allowed a peasant revolution that had been fomenting for 50 years to occur, overthrowing much of the old feudal elements, but
is there a resource i can look into this with, searching the term “dengost” brings up medical, adding philosophy also serves strange results and adding china brings up dentistry in china :/
I misspelt sorry I meant Dengist. Named after Deng Xiaoping who was a leader of the ccp after Maos death and his political ideology is a big part of china’s current political landscape. I dont have any resources though I know he wrote a couple of books that will be a good resource.
ooh ty, can you provide a resource to understand the distinction or if someone else can corroborate, i can edit the title
im not educated enough to understand this but very willing to learn
https://paradoxoftheday.com/differences-between-marxism-leninism-trotskyism-stalinism-and-maoism/?amp=1
Its a heavy read but insightful.
Although China nowadays is considered socialist with a hybrid economic system. confusing country but isn’t Leninist or Marxist, unless you squint
it isnt marxist only if you are taking just the ussr as a reference point.
many thanks 👍👍
To be honest its a Frankenstein’s Monster of a political philosophy so maoist maybe too narrow of a term, maybe itll fit with the 1989 Tiananmen square protests but not sure. Not a historian just know China isn’t cookie cutter socialist/Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist…
Surely China would be best described as dengost at this point?
Yeah calling China Maoist is pretty silly. They celebrate their former revolutionary leader but he was a lousy economist, and his last attempt to concentrate power in his revolutionary principles, the Cultural Revolution, was a shitshow. Mao allowed a peasant revolution that had been fomenting for 50 years to occur, overthrowing much of the old feudal elements, but
This poster was just arrested by the red guards.
is there a resource i can look into this with, searching the term “dengost” brings up medical, adding philosophy also serves strange results and adding china brings up dentistry in china :/
I misspelt sorry I meant Dengist. Named after Deng Xiaoping who was a leader of the ccp after Maos death and his political ideology is a big part of china’s current political landscape. I dont have any resources though I know he wrote a couple of books that will be a good resource.
That’s such a refreshing attitude