In ''[[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee|Prairie Fire]]'', issued in May 1974, Ayers, Dohrn and [[Jeff Jones]] identified the WUO primary strategy on the side of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) thought in the following way,
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By 1974 Maoism had supplanted the Soviet ideological doctrine guiding many New Left willing to use violence to achieve socialist revolution. In ''[[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee|Prairie Fire]]'', Ayers, Dohrn and [[Jeff Jones]] identified the WUO primary strategy on the side of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) thought in the following way,
{{cquote|The Chineese Revolution is a wonderful development in the advance of humanity. Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist Party have made many important breakthroughs in developing revolutionary strategy in the semi-feudal, semi-colonial world. The thought common to Mao and [[Ho Chi-minh]] - that the central revolutionary force of our time is the oppressed nations and peoples of the world leading the liberqation struggle against imperialism - is the guiding strategic principle of this era.}}
{{cquote|The Chineese Revolution is a wonderful development in the advance of humanity. Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist Party have made many important breakthroughs in developing revolutionary strategy in the semi-feudal, semi-colonial world. The thought common to Mao and [[Ho Chi-minh]] - that the central revolutionary force of our time is the oppressed nations and peoples of the world leading the liberqation struggle against imperialism - is the guiding strategic principle of this era.}}