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[[File:Black Like Mao.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Maoism had a profound impact on the [[Black Panther Party]], the forerunner of [[Black Lives Matter]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/29/black-panthers-black-lives-matter-ongoing-fight-end-police-violence-against-black-americans/</ref>  ''Black Like Mao'', a play on words from the Hollywood movie ''Black Like Me'' where Academy Award Winner Spencer Tracy dresses up in [[blackface]],<ref>https://medium.com/@SamMcKenzieJr/black-like-me-is-blackface-too-fd37dc19fade</ref> was inspired and dedicated to [[Obama]] friend Prof. [[Obama_Riots#Obama:_.22stupid_police.22|Louis Gates]].<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf ''Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution''], Robin D.G. Kelley and Betsy Esche, ''Souls'' Volume 1, Number 4 Fall 1999, p. 39 in original (p. 34 pdf).</ref>  Chairman Mao is universally recognized today as the greatest [[mass murder]]er the planet has ever known.<ref>http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Quotes/maoterror.htm</ref><ref>https://archive.is/VvFYa</ref>]]

[[File:Black Like Mao.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Maoism had a profound impact on the [[Black Panther Party]], the forerunner of [[Black Lives Matter]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/29/black-panthers-black-lives-matter-ongoing-fight-end-police-violence-against-black-americans/</ref>  ''Black Like Mao'', a play on words from the Hollywood movie ''Black Like Me'' where Academy Award Winner Spencer Tracy dresses up in [[blackface]],<ref>https://medium.com/@SamMcKenzieJr/black-like-me-is-blackface-too-fd37dc19fade</ref> was inspired and dedicated to [[Obama]] friend Prof. [[Obama_Riots#Obama:_.22stupid_police.22|Louis Gates]].<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf ''Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution''], Robin D.G. Kelley and Betsy Esche, ''Souls'' Volume 1, Number 4 Fall 1999, p. 39 in original (p. 34 pdf).</ref>  Chairman Mao is universally recognized today as the greatest [[mass murder]]er the planet has ever known.<ref>http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Quotes/maoterror.htm</ref><ref>https://archive.is/VvFYa</ref>]]

'''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.

The Maoist strategy for world revolution is based on the global version of the strategy employed by the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP), which led to Mao's victory in 1949. The analogy went like this: through "peoples war" the CCP forces who controlled the countryside of China encircled the cities of China, isolated the foe, and destroyed it piecemeal. The logic followed that the countryside of the world as a reaction to the super-exploitation suffered at the hands of the city of the world would become united and defeat the latter, and in the process establish a world socialist order.  This grand design would come about not through the struggles of working classes in revolutionary fervor inside the advanced capitalist countries as prescribed by Marx, but through the vehicle of [[national liberation struggle]]s of the colonial and former colonial peoples of the [[Third World]].

The Maoist strategy for world revolution is based on the global version of the strategy employed by the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP), which led to Mao's victory in 1949. The analogy went like this: through "peoples war" the CCP forces who controlled the countryside of China encircled the cities of China, isolated the foe, and destroyed it piecemeal. The logic followed that the countryside of the world as a reaction to the super-exploitation suffered at the hands of the city of the world would become united and defeat the latter, and in the process establish a world socialist order.  This grand design would come about not through the struggles of working classes in revolutionary fervor inside the advanced capitalist countries as prescribed by Marx, but through the vehicle of [[national liberation struggle]]s of the colonial and former colonial peoples of the [[Third World]].