Maoism

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Maoism is the Communist ideology of Mao Zedong. Maoism is a form of Stalinism. Specific to Maoism are Mao's writings on guerrilla warfare, the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, and Mao's Red Book. Maoism became a trendy ideology among leftist extremists starting in the 1960s, who saw the poor of the Third World, rather than the white proletariat of the industrialized West, as having the most "revolutionary" potential. Maoism with its origins in China rather than Europe was thus deemed by these radicals to be more credible an ideology than the Soviet-line Old Left, this despite Maoism being repackaged Stalinism.

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