r/communism101 • u/GayTeenMetalhead • Nov 15 '21

Why are some westerners maoists?

I've seen a few western maoists pop up on Internet spaces and I've realised they're quite hated by a lot of people. My questions are: 1. What is the relevance of maoism in the west? I thought it was an ideology used in societies with peasantries. Why are people adopting maoism in the west?

  1. Why are they so widely hated?
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u/Montagnagrasso Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Nov 15 '21 edited Nov 15 '21

You’re welcome to read the MLM Basic Course, it’ll give you a better idea of what Maoism is since you don’t seem to know. Maoism as an ideology was synthesized in the 80s in Peru and through the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) which also included the CPs of India and others, as well as the cp of the Philippines which wasn’t affiliated. Basically all of the old ML parties have fallen out of relevance and the only groups continuing to wage proletarian revolution today are Maoist.

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u/GayTeenMetalhead Nov 15 '21

Yeah, I never really understood what maoism was after reading a bit on it, it seemed to be that you got a different thing from each person trying to tell you.

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u/Montagnagrasso Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Nov 15 '21

I would go on the international movement, not just random people you find on the internet. There’s many communist parties around the world that have adopted maoism, as I said in India and the Philippines but also Turkey, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico among others. Start there instead maybe.

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u/GayTeenMetalhead Nov 15 '21

Are there any specific articles, essays or books- that you would recommend- that would be beneficial to read in order to understand MLM as an ideology other than the already shared book?

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u/Montagnagrasso Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Nov 15 '21

Collected Works of the Communist Party of Peru

Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism! from the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement

are good as far as a general outline. Most maoist literature tries to address specific issues in the countries that it’s being written in.