Mao Zedong Thought
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Mao Zedong Thought[a] (MZT) is a tendency developed by Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China more broadly which asserts itself to be an application of Marxism–Leninism to the national conditions of China.
Mao Zedong Thought, although developed for the Chinese context, held universal characteristics which would be developed into Maoism with the contributions of Abimael Guzmán of the Communist Party of Peru and others.
Contributions
People's war
In contrast to many other Marxist–Leninist formations which sought to emulate the model of revolution done in the Russia (i.e. the "October Road") of a long period of mostly legal struggle leading to eventual insurrection in the cities, and then most likely followed by a period of civil war, Mao Zedong developed his own means of socialist revolution relevant to Chinese peculiarities known as protracted people's war.
With people's war, the Communist Party of China mobilized the peasantry under proletarian leadership to surround the cities from the country side through a protracted armed struggle under which the people's war would go from being on the defensive to the offensive in positional warfare. This strategy led to the victory of the socialist revolution in China in 1949 with the defeat of the Guomindang.
New Democracy
Mao transcended the traditional understanding of the state in Marxism by developing a third type of dictatorship — New Democracy. New Democracy represents a joint-dictatorship of all anti-feudal and progressive strata under the leadership of the proletariat to build up the country for an eventual transition to a conventional proletarian dictatorship. China would advance from New Democracy to a full socialist revolution by 1975 with the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.[1]
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- ↑ Simplified Chinese: 毛泽东思想, Hanyu Pinyin: Máo Zédōng sīxiǎng