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'''Hoxhaism''' describes the ideology of people and organizations that sided with [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|Albania]] and [[Enver Hoxha]] in the [[Sino-Albanian Split]]. The main principle character of Hoxhaism is the extremely critical analysis of [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Maoist China]]. This approach is often criticized for being [[dogmatic]].<ref>https://massline.org/Dictionary/HO.htm</ref> | '''Hoxhaism''' describes the ideology of people and organizations that sided with [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|Albania]] and [[Enver Hoxha]] in the [[Sino-Albanian Split]]. The main principle character of Hoxhaism is the extremely critical analysis of [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Maoist China]]. This approach is often criticized for being [[dogmatic]].<ref>https://massline.org/Dictionary/HO.htm</ref> | ||
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==Development== | ==Development== | ||
Hoxhaism is directly based off the works of Enver Hoxha and his supporters. Hoxha himself changed stances multiple times, most notably from supporting the [[People's Republic of China]] to militantly opposing it as a [[Revisionism|revisionist]] state. Prior to the mid-to-late 1970s, Hoxha regarded Mao Zedong as a great Marxist–Leninist and a key ally.<ref>Enver Hoxha, Letter to the Ninth Conference of the Chinese Communist Party<blockquote>“The Ninth Congress marks a brilliant page in the long history of the great Communist Party of China, which is full of heroic and legendary struggles. It affirmed the revolutionary Marxist-Leninist line of Chairman Mao and the decisive victory of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It firmly held and raised higher the red banner of revolution and socialism. It further strengthened and tempered the Party, its unity of thought and action on the basis of the invincible thought of the great Marxist-Leninist Comrade Mao Tse-Tung.”</blockquote></ref> | Hoxhaism is directly based off the works of Enver Hoxha and his supporters. Hoxha himself changed stances multiple times, most notably from supporting the [[People's Republic of China]] to militantly opposing it as a [[Revisionism|revisionist]] state. Prior to the mid-to-late 1970s, Hoxha regarded Mao Zedong as a great Marxist–Leninist and a key ally.<ref>Enver Hoxha, Letter to the Ninth Conference of the Chinese Communist Party<blockquote>“The Ninth Congress marks a brilliant page in the long history of the great Communist Party of China, which is full of heroic and legendary struggles. It affirmed the revolutionary Marxist-Leninist line of Chairman Mao and the decisive victory of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It firmly held and raised higher the red banner of revolution and socialism. It further strengthened and tempered the Party, its unity of thought and action on the basis of the invincible thought of the great Marxist-Leninist Comrade Mao Tse-Tung.”</blockquote></ref> | ||
[[File:Hoxha1984.png|thumb|[[Enver Hoxha]]]] | |||
Hoxha would change positions on Mao and the PRC throughout the 1970s until he began to openly critique them in works such as [[Library:Theory and Practice of the Revolution|''Theory and Practice of the Revolution'']] (1977) and more importantly ''[[Imperialism and the Revolution]]'' (1978). | Hoxha would change positions on Mao and the PRC throughout the 1970s until he began to openly critique them in works such as [[Library:Theory and Practice of the Revolution|''Theory and Practice of the Revolution'']] (1977) and more importantly ''[[Imperialism and the Revolution]]'' (1978). | ||
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==Ideology== | ==Ideology== | ||
Hoxhaism defines itself as allegedly being the true continuation of Marxism–Leninism in the modern day. Hoxhaism is more defined by what it is opposed to rather than what it supports, as Hoxhaists limit their body of theory to Hoxha along with the [[Classics of Marxism|four classical theorists]] of Marxism–Leninism. | Hoxhaism defines itself as allegedly being the true continuation of Marxism–Leninism in the modern day. Hoxhaism is more defined by what it is opposed to rather than what it supports, as Hoxhaists limit their body of theory to Hoxha along with the [[Classics of Marxism|four classical theorists]] of Marxism–Leninism. | ||
Revision as of 00:12, 14 October 2025
Hoxhaism describes the ideology of people and organizations that sided with Albania and Enver Hoxha in the Sino-Albanian Split. The main principle character of Hoxhaism is the extremely critical analysis of Mao Zedong and Maoist China. This approach is often criticized for being dogmatic.[1]
Hoxhaists in general often do not define themselves as a separate tendency from anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism and as such reject the term "Hoxhaism" as a self-description. It is largely the case that certain Hoxhaists such as those aligned with the Comintern (SH) use the term "Hoxhaism" or "Stalinism–Hoxhaism."
Development
Hoxhaism is directly based off the works of Enver Hoxha and his supporters. Hoxha himself changed stances multiple times, most notably from supporting the People's Republic of China to militantly opposing it as a revisionist state. Prior to the mid-to-late 1970s, Hoxha regarded Mao Zedong as a great Marxist–Leninist and a key ally.[2]
Hoxha would change positions on Mao and the PRC throughout the 1970s until he began to openly critique them in works such as Theory and Practice of the Revolution (1977) and more importantly Imperialism and the Revolution (1978).
By analyzing the facts, our Party arrived at some general and specific conclusions, which made it vigilant, but it avoided polemics with the Communist Party of China and Chinese leaders, not because it was afraid to engage in polemics with them, but because the facts, which it had about the erroneous, anti-Marxist course of this party and Mao Tsetung himself, were incomplete, and still did not permit the drawing of a final conclusion. On the other hand, for a time, the Communist Party of China did oppose US imperialism and reaction. It also took a stand against Soviet Khrushchevite revisionism, though it is now clear that its struggle against Soviet revisionism was not dictated from correct, principled Marxist-Leninist positions. —Enver Hoxha, Imperialism and the Revolution
The events which composed this ideological conflict are known as the Sino-Albanian split.
Ideology
Hoxhaism defines itself as allegedly being the true continuation of Marxism–Leninism in the modern day. Hoxhaism is more defined by what it is opposed to rather than what it supports, as Hoxhaists limit their body of theory to Hoxha along with the four classical theorists of Marxism–Leninism.
Hoxhaists oppose Titoism, Khrushchevism, Brezhnevism, and in particular Mao Zedong Thought and Maoism as tendencies. Hoxhaists view Mao Zedong as an opportunist and bourgeois class collaborationist who turned China away from socialist construction. They view Mao Zedong as a bourgeois revolutionary and nothing more.[3]
See also
- Communist Party of Germany/Marxist–Leninist
- Comintern (SH)
- Dogmato-revisionism, term used by critics of Hoxhaism
References
- ↑ https://massline.org/Dictionary/HO.htm
- ↑ Enver Hoxha, Letter to the Ninth Conference of the Chinese Communist Party
“The Ninth Congress marks a brilliant page in the long history of the great Communist Party of China, which is full of heroic and legendary struggles. It affirmed the revolutionary Marxist-Leninist line of Chairman Mao and the decisive victory of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It firmly held and raised higher the red banner of revolution and socialism. It further strengthened and tempered the Party, its unity of thought and action on the basis of the invincible thought of the great Marxist-Leninist Comrade Mao Tse-Tung.”
- ↑ Hoxha, Enver Can the Chinese Revolution be called a Proletarian Revolution? (1979) November 8th Publishing House. pp. 1-9