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I have seen quite a few American Maoists and ultras practically worship poverty, acting like the only way a socialist nation can be "truly" socialist is if everyone is equally poor, which is just nonsense. No one should be rich due to the exploitation of others, but that doesn't mean people can't be well off.
The 'cambodian farmer' approach.
What good intentions but a focus on aesthetics and lack of theory get you
I'd say it's more an obsession with theory above all, for Maoists at least. That "reading theory" is a badge of honor, rather than understanding theory. Every conversation I've had with a Maoist has had them break out some obscure socialist thinker, some of whom I've never heard of, and uses that as a "gotcha" because they are "more well read" therefore anything I say is invalid.
Ironically Mao himself talked about this sort of thing in Oppose Book Worship, but they are big on memorizing theory to use cherry picked examples in arguments, not so much on actually understanding theory and using it to improve their cause.