Whenever I hear of Marxist theory applied to the conditions of modern America it’s always in relation to ML or Trotskyism, but I never hear Maoism brought up. Does Maoism have any application to current day America?
Whenever I hear of Marxist theory applied to the conditions of modern America it’s always in relation to ML or Trotskyism, but I never hear Maoism brought up. Does Maoism have any application to current day America?
One thing to note is that “Maoism” and “Mao Zedong Thought” are two very different things. The CPC practices MZT while guerillas like the NPA in the Philippines and the Naxalites in India practice Maoism.
The cornerstone of Maoism is the Protracted People’s War, and honestly that hasn’t panned out well in a very long time. The PPW in China was successful but China was a backward agrarian country with an extremely fragile and disorganized state. Maoism applied to the industrialized countries ends up looking like the RAF or the Weathermen. You cant really bleed a state as powerful as ours dry through attrition, so the whole theory breaks down.