>>2796164The main maoist nepalese party became social-democrat. The philippine and india's maoist insurgency are on the brink of collapse. The Shining Path is dead. The social movements in the 70s are also dead.
There's just not that much left, which is too bad because the theory was interesting;
>more general interpretation of contradictions than purely focused on those found within the capitalist mode of production>efficient/proven form of revolutionnary struggle>Relevant analysis on bureaucracy in socialist attempts, and on third-world peripheriesThe main problem is that, like most other marxists revolution, Mao thought that the economic model in the USSR was efficient, when it was terrible for underdeveloped semi-feudal gigantic third-world countries. The party tried to adapt this by being more loose in their planning (quantities could be somewhat adjusted and the local branch of the party had more freedom in determining production) and by instating the commune's system, but it failed to produce to meaningful results after the failure of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution (which ironically ended up pushing the bureaucracy into capitalism as a mean to safeguard their interest)
>>2796215The situation has changed quite a bit and there's not that many marxists armed insurgencies irl