cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3023016
Took part in an RGS and the head people all push that Maoism is scientifically the best form of Communism. Can anyone explain this view? Also, the group seems to want everyone to hold this view. Isn’t splitting into sub-ideologies hurting the potential for a larger movement?
-a confused newbie.
Yeah, Maoists claim to be scientific, but simply state that they are. Ask 15 different Maoists what makes Maoism more scientific than traditional ML theory and you’ll get 15 different answers.
I know this word gets thrown around a lot, but they are dogmatic. They repeat their “universal truths” to themselves hoping that will make them come true (MLM is the next step in socialist movements, PPW is the only correct way to wage a revolution etc.) They’re idealists who refuse to perform self-crit.
(And then there’s the shady stuff, where a lot of MLM theory was developed by various US communist orgs, who were always 100% definitely not being influenced by three letter agencies to create a defanged and ineffectual form of Marxism. Not to mention Gonzalo or the CPP or the Nepalese Maoists)