Maoism
Revolution from the countryside, and then again.
Mao rewrote the communist script for a country full of farmers, not factory workers. Peasants, not just factory workers, lead the revolution through a long people's war. And the struggle never really ends: even after victory, the masses get mobilised against new elites, again and again.
What they'd say
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
The revolution must be continuous.
Serve the people.
Its 12-axis profile
Where it gets messy
The Great Leap Forward famine killed tens of millions, and the Cultural Revolution tore China apart. In 1981 the Chinese Communist Party itself ruled that the Cultural Revolution was a catastrophe.
Names to know
- Mao Zedong
- Lin Biao
Its squad
Countries that think like this
These countries and regimes have Maoism as their closest match out of all 46 types.
Cuba84%
North Korea78%1975–1979Khmer Rouge Cambodia73%Is Maoism your type?
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