In 1966, Mao and his allies launched the Cultural Revolution, which would last until Mao's death a decade later.

Here, Mao was taught the value systems of Confucianism, one of the dominant moral ideologies in China, but he would later admit that he did not enjoy reading the classical Chinese texts which preached Confucian morals, instead favouring popular novels such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin.

Mao would later claim that he first developed a " political consciousness " from that booklet.

Inspired by Sun's example, Mao penned his first political essay, which he stuck to the school wall ; later admitting that it was " somewhat muddled ", it involved a plan for overthrowing the monarchy and replacing it with a republic governed by the presidency of Sun, but with concessions made to the moderates by having Kang Youwei as premier and Liang Qichao as minister of foreign affairs.

Several months later, it amalgamated with the prestigious First Normal School of Changsha, widely seen as the best school in Hunan province ; Mao biographer Stuart Schram would later note that the environment of the school provided " an ideal training ground for his apprenticeship as a political worker.

Biographer Stuart Schram would later comment that during the period between 1925 and 1927, Mao was closer to the Kuomintang than he was to the Communist Party, something he attributed to Mao's belief that the good of China was more important than the cause of socialism.

By contrast, neighboring Chinese leader Mao Zedong was mostly ignored and Kim Il-sung rejected most of his policies such as the Hundred Flowers Campaign and ( later ) the Cultural Revolution.

* 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March ; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.

Peng was replaced by Lin Biao, another revolutionary army general who became a more staunch Mao supporter later in his career.

This was one of many quotations in the Little Red Book that the Red Guards would later follow as a guide, provided by Mao.

Liu Shaoqi, once the most powerful man in China after Mao, was sent to a detention camp, where he later died in 1969.

A year later, the Red Guard factions were dismantled entirely ; Mao feared that the chaos they caused — and could still cause — might harm the very foundation of the Communist Party of China.

It initially targeted Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan, but would later involve Mao himself.

Mao believed that intellectuals and party cadres had to become first students of the masses to become teachers of the masses later.

During this period Mao clearly established himself as a Marxist theoretician and produced the bulk of the works which would later be canonized into the " thought of Mao Zedong ".

Like Mao later recognized, Mif understood that Zhou's services as Party leader were indispensable, and that Zhou would willingly cooperate with whoever was holding power.

After achieving power Mao later purged or demoted those who had opposed him in 1932, but remembered Zhou's defense of his policies.

Zhou's support was not enough, and Mao was demoted to being a figurehead in the Soviet government until he regained his position later, during the Long March.

Mao would later write of this period:

Though candid in expressing his admiration for Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and, later, Fidel Castro Ruz, Jagan in power asserted that the PPP's Marxist-Leninist principles must be adapted to Guyana's own particular circumstances.

* 《 茅盾書簡 》 Mao Dun Shujian to the books of Mao Dun ( 1st edition, collection of letters, 1984 ) later changed the name into 《 茅盾書信集 》 Mao Dun Shuxinji ( 1988 )

The Resolution boldly noted Mao's leadership role in the movement, stating that " chief responsibility for the grave ' Left ' error of the ' Cultural Revolution ,' an error comprehensive in magnitude and protracted in duration, does indeed lie with Comrade Mao Zedong ".

According to records from Japanese documents, Mao Changxi ( 毛昶熙 ) and Dong Xun ( 董恂 ), the Qing ministers at Zongli Yamen ( 總理衙門 ) who handled the complaints from Japanese envoy Yanagihara Sakimitsu ( 柳原前光 ) replied first that they had heard only of a massacre of Ryūkyūans, not of Japanese, and quickly noted that Ryūkyū was under Chinese suzerainty, therefore this issue was not Japan's business.

Shaoshan () is a county-level city in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, noted as the birthplace of Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China.

As an important ally of Mao Zedong ’ s efforts to regain control of the Chinese Communist Party, Kang was an important enabler of and participant in the Cultural Revolution, later described by the Party Central Committee as having “ lasted from May 1966 to October 1976 ” and as “ responsible for the most severe setback and heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People ’ s Republic .” The Central Committee resolution concluded that the Cultural Revolution “ was initiated and led by Comrade Mao Zedong .” In outlining the “ errors ” that had been made by Mao and others in the run-up to the Cultural Revolution, the Central Committee noted that “ areerists like Lin Biao, Jiang Qing and Kang Sheng, harbouring ulterior motives, made use of these errors and inflated them .”

* Keemun Mao Feng ( 祁門毛峰 )-A variety, where Mao Feng means Fur Peak, which is made of only slightly twisted leaf buds and is sometimes noted for a smoother and different flavor.

The Private Life of Chairman Mao was presented as revealing new information about Mao, but as historian Mobo Gao noted, " For those who are familiar with the literature in Chinese, there was in fact very little that was really new in the book when it hit the Western market.

Although Mao had been one of Chen's students, he had begun to question Chen's analyses of China.

Because of Chen's opposition to Mao's interpretation of Communism, Mao believed that Chen was incapable of providing a robust historical materialist analysis of China.

After Mao died in 1976, Hua Guofeng gave a speech praising Mao's suppression of " Right and ' Left ' Opportunist lines of the Party " as one of the late Chairman's greatest achievements: Chen's was the first person to be named as being correctly suppressed ; Deng Xiaoping was the last.

The most notable examples are Sun Yat-Sen's Three Principles of the People ideology and Mao Zedong's Maoism, a variant of Marxism – Leninism.

Mao Zedong ( Máo zé dōng ) added Marxism, Stalinism, and other communist thought.

Mao would claim that although he did not accept Marxism at first, he had come under the influence of anarchism and was becoming " more and more radical " as the months went on.

From Peking, Mao moved along to Shanghai, working as a laundryman and meeting with Chen Duxiu, who had been recently freed from prison ; together, they discussed Marxism, which Chen was also beginning to accept.

In China, the claim that Mao had " adapted Marxism – Leninism to Chinese conditions " evolved into the idea that he had updated it in a fundamental way applying to the world as a whole ; consequently, the term " Marxism – Leninism – Mao Zedong Thought " ( commonly known as Maoism ) was increasingly used to describe the official Chinese state ideology as well as the ideological basis of parties around the world who sympathized with the Communist Party of China ( such as the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist – Leninist / Mao Zedong Thought, founded by Jose Maria Sison in 1968 ).

Following the death of Mao, Peruvian Maoists associated with the Communist Party of Peru ( Sendero Luminoso ) subsequently coined the term Marxism – Leninism – Maoism, arguing that Maoism was a more advanced stage of Marxism.

The People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong developed its own unique brand of Marxism – Leninism known as Maoism.

Mao believed that Khrushchev was not adhering to Marxism – Leninism, but was instead a revisionist, altering his policies from basic Marxist concepts, something Mao feared would allow capitalists to eventually regain control of the country.

In other words, Mao can be seen as an idealist and as such, directly contravenes the deterministic tenets of orthodox Marxism.

* The Encyclopedia of Marxism Mao Zedong Thought.

Before he transferred power to a younger generation of leaders, Jiang had his theory of Three Represents written into the Party's constitution, alongside Marxism – Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and Deng Xiaoping Theory at the 16th CPC Congress in 2002.

As the Cultural Revolution and the personality cult of Mao Zedong was approaching its apogee in February 1967, only two others works were officially authorized for wide publication and distribution: Vladimir Lenin's, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, and Friedrich Engels ' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.

However, unlike the official ideology, Chinese new conservatism was neutral on the validity of Marxism and skeptical toward Mao Zedong, founder and long-time leader of the People's Republic of China.

Despite the Temple's fear that the IRS was investigating its religious tax exemption, by 1977 Marceline Jones admitted to the New York Times that, as early as age 18 when he watched his then idol Mao Zedong overthrow the Chinese government, Jim Jones realized that the way to achieve social change through Marxism in the United States was to mobilize people through religion.

The guiding political ideology from the first generations were general principles of Marxism and Mao Zedong Thought.

Mao, thus, wrote off what he called " Western bourgeois civilization " and instead embraced Marxism – Leninism as the ideology of the Chinese state.

On June 14, 1919, young Mao Zedong founded The Shian Kian Weekly Review ( 湘江评论 ) to publicize Marxism in Changsha.