| | Maoism mixes orthodox Stalinism with [[Populism]]. Named after its originator [[Mao Zedong]], the ideology relies on militant, insurrectionary and populist strategies in [[community organizing|movement organizing]] (People's Wars, [[Cultural Revolution]], Peasant Uprising, etc.). Once in power, however, Maoists tend to install a traditionally corrupt Stalinist regime — bureaucratic, totalitarian, militaristic, and dictatorial. Like Stalin, Mao's China relied on Five-Year Plans, the best-known of which was the [[Great Leap Forward]]," later renamed the "Three Years of Disasters." Maoists also believe that the world socialist revolution will begin in the "[[Third World]]."<ref>[http://reds.linefeed.org/vocab.html#MA ''The Red Encyclopedia: A Communism and Communists Reference Guide,'']. Hosted by the linefeed group, San Francisco, CA. Retrieved March 19, 2010.</ref> | | Maoism mixes orthodox Stalinism with [[Populism]]. Named after its originator [[Mao Zedong]], the ideology relies on militant, insurrectionary and populist strategies in [[community organizing|movement organizing]] (People's Wars, [[Cultural Revolution]], Peasant Uprising, etc.). Once in power, however, Maoists tend to install a traditionally corrupt Stalinist regime — bureaucratic, totalitarian, militaristic, and dictatorial. Like Stalin, Mao's China relied on Five-Year Plans, the best-known of which was the [[Great Leap Forward]]," later renamed the "Three Years of Disasters." Maoists also believe that the world socialist revolution will begin in the "[[Third World]]."<ref>[http://reds.linefeed.org/vocab.html#MA ''The Red Encyclopedia: A Communism and Communists Reference Guide,'']. Hosted by the linefeed group, San Francisco, CA. Retrieved March 19, 2010.</ref> |