'''Mao Zedong Thought''' or '''Maoism''' is the [[Marxist]] ideology of [[Mao Zedong]]. Maoism differs at the start from standard [[Marxism-Leninism]] in that it looked to the masses of rural peasants rather than to the urban industrial proletariat as the driving force (along with the Communist Party) of the revolution. Maoism began as a form of [[Stalinism]], but in the mid-1950s Mao became distrustful of the Soviet-style concentration of power in the hands of the Party bureaucracy and its "managerial and technocratic elites",<ref>https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/363444/Maoism</ref> which led him to promote the continuous revolutionary mobilization of the masses. These divergences from Stalinism were elaborated in Mao's writings on [[guerrilla]] warfare and his "Red Book" and carried out through programs such as the [[Great Leap Forward]] of the late 1950s and the [[Cultural Revolution]] of the late 1960s. | '''Mao Zedong Thought''' or '''Maoism''' is the [[Marxist]] ideology of [[Mao Zedong]]. Maoism differs at the start from standard [[Marxism-Leninism]] in that it looked to the masses of rural peasants rather than to the urban industrial proletariat as the driving force (along with the Communist Party) of the revolution. Maoism began as a form of [[Stalinism]], but in the mid-1950s Mao became distrustful of the Soviet-style concentration of power in the hands of the Party bureaucracy and its "managerial and technocratic elites",<ref>https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/363444/Maoism</ref> which led him to promote the continuous revolutionary mobilization of the masses. These divergences from Stalinism were elaborated in Mao's writings on [[guerrilla]] warfare and his "Red Book" and carried out through programs such as the [[Great Leap Forward]] of the late 1950s and the [[Cultural Revolution]] of the late 1960s. |