I’ve seen self described Maoists just be pro-Khmer Rouge and you could tie this with the fetishization of violence in the movement because it’s often not a critical support either that takes into account their awful situation but just saying the genocide was deserved and shit (often playing into anti-communist exaggerations of the already horrible events too). Western Maoists are a different breed tho than the CPI (Maoist) so I’m not sure about the latter’s thoughts on the matter or any of the other third world Maoist parties.
Some Hoxhaist anti-revisionists that don’t take the whole Maoist line also cite Hoxha’s “Can the Chinese revolution be considered a proletariat revolution?” to discount the project as communist/marxist and paint it as revisionist from the beginning, laying this to blame for their tactical moves with the US
Cringe imo, so at some point earlier in the parties history the CPC didn’t think the Soviet model could be 1:1 implanted into China and Mao instead spoke about creating a “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” the phrase that’s been carried into today. He seems to find this to be revisionist and things like the influence of Confucius and Chinese philosophy to be bourgeoise… the weirdest part about this though is that he basically says “They should’ve appealed to the peasantry” “shouldn’t of appealed so much to big landowners” “mao calling it a peasant revolution means they aren’t marxist” “it was a national revolution not a social revolution” “new democracy is bourgeoise liberalism” “mao’s a liberal democrat that pretends to be marxist” “mao zedong thought is anti-marxist” and I’m still not sure why except for his briefly stated view on new democracy. Mostly non-investigative nonsense that necessitates millions of people to learn Marxism but get nothing from it other than justifying liberalism and wanting to take over Siberia(?)
I’ve seen self described Maoists just be pro-Khmer Rouge and you could tie this with the fetishization of violence in the movement because it’s often not a critical support either that takes into account their awful situation but just saying the genocide was deserved and shit (often playing into anti-communist exaggerations of the already horrible events too). Western Maoists are a different breed tho than the CPI (Maoist) so I’m not sure about the latter’s thoughts on the matter or any of the other third world Maoist parties.
Some Hoxhaist anti-revisionists that don’t take the whole Maoist line also cite Hoxha’s “Can the Chinese revolution be considered a proletariat revolution?” to discount the project as communist/marxist and paint it as revisionist from the beginning, laying this to blame for their tactical moves with the US
Have any reading on this?
https://youtu.be/6dHhFfJEZ9g https://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Can-the-Chinese-Revolution-Be-Called-a-Proletarian-Revolution-—-Enver-Hoxha.pdf
Cringe imo, so at some point earlier in the parties history the CPC didn’t think the Soviet model could be 1:1 implanted into China and Mao instead spoke about creating a “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” the phrase that’s been carried into today. He seems to find this to be revisionist and things like the influence of Confucius and Chinese philosophy to be bourgeoise… the weirdest part about this though is that he basically says “They should’ve appealed to the peasantry” “shouldn’t of appealed so much to big landowners” “mao calling it a peasant revolution means they aren’t marxist” “it was a national revolution not a social revolution” “new democracy is bourgeoise liberalism” “mao’s a liberal democrat that pretends to be marxist” “mao zedong thought is anti-marxist” and I’m still not sure why except for his briefly stated view on new democracy. Mostly non-investigative nonsense that necessitates millions of people to learn Marxism but get nothing from it other than justifying liberalism and wanting to take over Siberia(?)