Notes Towards a Critique of Maoism

http://insurgentnotes.com/2012/10/notes-towards-a-critique-of-maoism/
http://bthp23.com/Maoism.pdf
http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX14643-Goldner-CritiqueofMaoism.pdf
Date Written:  2012-10-15
Publisher:  Insurgent Notes
Year Published:  2012
Pages:  15pp   Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14643

Maoism was part of a broader movement in the twentieth century of what might be called “bourgeois revolutions with red flags,” as in Vietnam or North Korea. To understand this, it is important to see that Maoism was one important result of the defeat of the world revolutionary wave in 30 countries (including China itself) which occurred in the years after World War I. The major defeat was in Germany (1918–1921), followed by the defeat of the Russian Revolution (1921 and thereafter), culminating in Stalinism.