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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I don't know all of the details, but i think generally Mao Zedong understood that he didn't always make the right decision and learned from them, whereas Maoists think he wasn't ever wrong.

Maybe its more complicated than that. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

MLMs reject various Maoist ideas like the three worlds theory. The principles they advocate for are in many ways indistinguishable from baseline Marxism-Leninism, they just take it a step further with dogmatism.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Dogmatism is a great way to describe it. Mao once said to support everything the enemy opposes and to oppose everything the enemy supports. I loved Mao’s quotations but that one sucks. If that quote isn’t an encapsulation of Dogmatism, I genuinely don’t know what else is.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i think the quote is taken out of context. i think he is more referring to a united front/revolutionary defeatism than for it to be taken 100% seriously. Mao wasn't an idiot

EDIT: found the context(in Selected Works Vol. 2) - he was indeed talking about a united front against Japan.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe it translates better in Chinese because it still sounds a bit off to me idk

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