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Mao's innovation was successful in 1949. The strategy was replicated by [[Fidel Castro]] ten years later in [[Cuba]] against the "paper tiger" regime of [[Fulgencio Batista]].  The [[Sino-Soviet split]] of 1962 had ramifications worldwide for communist parties which were taking money and instructions from the [[Soviet Union]] to bring about the worldwide workers revolution. The [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) was affected, as well.  But a historical anomaly occurred which was little understand then outside of communist circles, and remains little understood today even in academia.

Mao's innovation was successful in 1949. The strategy was replicated by [[Fidel Castro]] ten years later in [[Cuba]] against the "paper tiger" regime of [[Fulgencio Batista]].  The [[Sino-Soviet split]] of 1962 had ramifications worldwide for communist parties which were taking money and instructions from the [[Soviet Union]] to bring about the worldwide workers revolution. The [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) was affected, as well.  But a historical anomaly occurred which was little understand then outside of communist circles, and remains little understood today even in academia.

The Sino-Soviet split was not understood by the U.S. intelligence community. Indeed, throughout the [[Vietnam War]], the American public were fed a steady diet of [propaganda]] by the [[mainstream media]] and [[CIA]] that the United States was fighting the "communist bloc" - Russia and China and its allies, [[North Vietnam]], [[East Germany]], [[North Korea]] and others in a [[Cold War]]. The War in Vietnam was a Hot War in the Cold War.  But the worldwide communist revolution was not a monolith, ideological differences between the "correct" interpretation of carrying out a Marxist revolution, between the Moscow directed Marxist-Leninist doctrine, and the Beijing model of Mai Zedong Thought forced many local communist parties to chose which direction to follow. The big kicker was that the Russians supplied money and material support to international communist parties, and the [[Beijing]] Marxists only gave ideological direction.

The Sino-Soviet split was not understood by the U.S. intelligence community. Indeed, throughout the [[Vietnam War]], the American public were fed a steady diet of [propaganda]] by the [[mainstream media]] and [[CIA]] that the United States was fighting the "communist bloc" - Russia and China and its allies, [[North Vietnam]], [[East Germany]], [[North Korea]] and others in a [[Cold War]]. The War in Vietnam was a Hot War in the Cold War.  But the worldwide communist revolution was not a monolith, ideological differences between the "correct" interpretation of carrying out a Marxist revolution, between the Moscow directed Marxist-Leninist doctrine, and the Beijing model of Mai Zedong Thought forced many local communist parties to chose which direction to follow. The big kicker was that the Russians supplied money and material support to international communist parties, and the [[Beijing]] Marxists only gave ideological direction.

Here the historical facts get really confusing. The Cuban Revolution is strange anomaly indeed, because while they took their ideological direction from Mao, they took financial support from the Soviet Union. The [[Cuban Communist Party]] appears to be the only international communist organization that the Russians allowed this to happen. Largely because Cuba also provided a military base in the [[Western Hemisphere]], 90 miles off the continental United States, in addition receiving financial support for its ailing economy. But the Cuban communists took their ideological direction from Beijing and Chairman Mao, and taught Maoist doctrine to the [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) and the [[Weather Underground]] (WUO).

Here the historical facts get really confusing. The Cuban Revolution is strange anomaly indeed, because while they took their ideological direction from Mao, they took financial support from the Soviet Union. The [[Cuban Communist Party]] appears to be the only international communist organization that the Russians allowed this to happen. Largely because Cuba also provided a military base in the [[Western Hemisphere]], 90 miles off the continental United States, in addition receiving financial support for its ailing economy. But the Cuban communists took their ideological direction from Beijing and Chairman Mao, and taught Maoist doctrine to the [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) and the [[Weather Underground]] (WUO).

In the United States, this led to messy fight within the CPUSA.

In the United States, this led to messy fight within the CPUSA.