Variant & Movement

Maoism

A Marxist-Leninist tradition associated with Mao Zedong, emphasizing peasant revolution, mass mobilization, and party-led transformation.

Definition

A Marxist-Leninist tradition associated with Mao Zedong, emphasizing peasant revolution, mass mobilization, and party-led transformation.

Deep Dive

Read how Maoist communism produced the Great Leap Forward famine—roughly 30 million dead—and why the ideology, not its leaders, was responsible.

Also Connected To

primary classification

Maoism uses Communism as its primary browsing classification.

influenced

Maoism is commonly treated as a Marxist-Leninist-derived current adapted to Chinese revolutionary conditions.

secondary classification

Maoism also overlaps with or is often discussed in relation to Marxism-Leninism.

secondary classification

Maoism also overlaps with or is often discussed in relation to Authoritarian / Statist / Order-First Traditions.

secondary classification

Maoism also overlaps with or is often discussed in relation to Anti-Colonialism.

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