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===SDS and Weather Underground===
===SDS and Weather Underground===
In the United States, this led to messy fight within the CPUSA.
In the United States, this led to messy fight within the CPUSA. The [[League for Industrial Democracy]] was a Soviet [[front group]] receiving money from Moscow which created the Students for a Democratic Society to subvert domestically U.S. war efforts in [[Vietnam]]. As the war progressed throughout the 1960s, a band of Maoists within the SDS wanted to abandon traditional Marxist and Soviet organizing efforts to unite [[labor union]]s and students in a revolution to overthrow the United States government. They wished to follow the Maoist theory of organizing a band of violent revolutionary guerrillas, which Mao and [[Che Guevara]] had done, to directly attack and overthrow the United States government. Departing from the Moscow line of direction however, meant giving up financial support from the Soviet Union. In 1969 these Maoists took over leadership of the SDS, and connection with the League and for Industrial Democracy, the CPUSA, and [[Kremlin]] was severed.
These Maoists formed the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), and travelled to Cuba for training in Maoist thought and guerilla tactics.
One thing Maoism shares with traditional Marxism-Leninism is the idea of a [[national liberation movement]]. These national liberation movements are scattered worldwide, and many still exist such as the [[Sandinistas]] or Baluch Liberation Front. A former Soviet client, the Palestinian Liberation Organization led by [[Yassir Arafat]] evolved into the Palestinian Authority when it made a treaty with the United States and [[Israel]] and began receiving financial support. Other Marxist "liberation movements" sprung up at this time, such "Women's Liberation" which became the modern [[feminist]] movement and "[[Gay Liberation]]" which became [[LGBT]].