in recent years the most slandered figure among internet marxists has been chairman mao and in general, maoism, however when you actually sit down to read maos works, 90% of the talking points are bullshit lmao
>mao was a class collaborationist because new democracy has the bourgeoisie work with the proletariat temporarilymao never said new democracy was socialism, in fact he said that the new democratic revolution would be immediately followed by the socialist revolution i.e cultural rev and purges of capitalist roaders, the great proletarian cultural revolution
>mao put the peasantry above the proletariatdisproven by maos "analysis of the classes in chinese society"
"The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat."
also, from the analysis of the may 4th movement
It is impossible to accomplish the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution without these basic revolutionary forces and without the leadership of the working class
and "On the Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party."
“The Chinese proletariat is the basic motive force of the Chinese Revolution. Unless it is led by the proletariat, the Chinese Revolution cannot possibly succeed.”
mao never deviated from his position on the industrial proletariat.
>mao was a chinese nationalist who molded marxism to only apply to china"Every party in different countries will have to apply different methods in overcoming the contradictions that always arise as society proceeds further and further on the socialist path. The methods each party uses would differ from country to country. The degree of resistance encountered by the Bolsheviks in Russia from the overthrown landlord and capitalist classes was very great. They had to take harsh measures to eliminate such resistance. They were entirely justified in doing so. In China, too, counter-revolutionaries were eliminated. But, in China, Mao advocated using two different methods under the people’s democratic dictatorship, one dictatorial and the other democratic, to resolve the two types of contradictions which differ in nature—those between ourselves and the enemy, and those among the people. In his article “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship” written in 1949 and also published in the Cominform Journal, Mao had explained that “The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the
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