In its first decade the group leaned more to Maoism, while still considered itself to have " the kind of political independence that enables revolutionaries to speak up if they see that the cause is being damaged by the policies of the leadership of socialist countries.

It became a key element of Maoism, first quoted by Mao Zedong during a speech at the Sixth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1938, in reference to pragmatism.

The reformed CPP included Maoism within the political line as well as the struggle for a National Democratic Revolution in two-stages, consisting of a protracted " People's War " as its first part to be followed by a Socialist Revolution.

In 1943 Wang was the first one who put forward the concept of Maoism, which must have greatly appealed to Mao.

Furthermore, in the 7th National Congress of CPC in 1945, Liu Shaoqi who was the first one to propose Maoism be written into the party constitution of CPC.

It first started with the spin-off " 23 Mars " ( a reference to the 23 March 1965 students ' uprising ), a radical, Maoism student fraction of the largest opposition to the Moroccan monarchy, the National Union of Popular Forces.

Many labor unions and workers ' parties worldwide were also influenced by Marxist ideas, while various theoretical variants, such as Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, and Maoism, were developed from them.

In turn, Maoism became the theoretical basis of some third world revolutionary vanguard parties, e. g., the Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland, the Communist Party of Cuba, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, et al.

Politically a Marxist-Leninist, his theoretical contribution to the ideology along with his military strategies and brand of policies are collectively known as Maoism.

Although often described as an evolution of Marxism / Leninism, Maoism is defined more by its theoretical and ideological departures from orthodox Marxism or Leninism than by its similarities to the Western versions of modern socialism.

The movement promoted the writings of Guzmán, called Gonzalo Thought, a new " theoretical understanding " that built upon Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism whereby he declared Maoism as a " third and higher stage of Marxism ," having defined Maoism as " people's war.

He has continually published writings on Marxism and Maoism for over 35 years and is viewed by many inside and outside the communist movement as the foremost Maoist revolutionary in the U. S. He has described his body of theoretical work and everything he does as a communist leader as focused on " developing a scientific understanding of the world and providing leadership in radically transforming it toward the goal of revolution and the final aim of communism.

Similar to the New Left's general direction in the late 1960s, these new organizations rejected the post-1956 Communist Party USA as revisionist, or anti-revolutionary, and also rejected Trotskyism and the Socialist Workers Party for its theoretical opposition to Maoism.

Taoism / Daoism is one of a few Chinese-ism borrowings, along with Confucianism, Mohism, and Maoism.

After his break with Maoism in the 1976 – 1978 period, numerous Maoist parties declared themselves Hoxhaist.

Third worldism is closely connected with Pan-Africanism, Pan-Arabism, Maoism, African socialism, and Latin American socialist trends.

In several countries, the terms far left and radical left have been associated with communism, Maoism, Autonomism and many forms of anarchism.

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 idea of a South American – styled urban guerrilla movement, similar to the Tupamaros movement in Uruguay, combined with Régis Debray's theory of urban warfare and ideas drawn from Maoism, appealed to a number of people, including Patricia Michelle Soltysik ( a. k. a. " Mizmoon ").

Many factional struggles were not unlike religious wars, with all sides claiming allegiance to the most " authentic " form of Maoism.

Along with the Chinese intellectual tradition which was prevalent during his youth, it is clear that Mao's personal philosophy, his idealism and populist leanings, were foundational to the formation and profile of Maoism.

Maoism broke with the state capitalist framework of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev and dismisses it as modern revisionism, a traditional pejorative term among communists referring to those who fight for capitalism in the name of socialism.

According to BBC The Communist Party of Kampuchea ( Cambodia ), better known as the " Khmer Rouge ", identified strongly with Maoism, and is generally labeled a " Maoist " movement today.

The Unified Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ), a national communist party with a revolutionary background, is a follower of Maoism, although it is believed that the party has developed its own ideology, Prachanda Path, which was developed taking Nepal's political, sociological and geographical constraints into consideration.

Maoism has fallen out of favour within the Communist Party of China, beginning with Deng Xiaoping's reforms in 1978.

Although the NBPP says it sees capitalism as the fundamental problem with the world and " revolution " as the solution, the new party does not draw its influences from Marxism or Maoism as the original party did.

Yang's experiences with radical Maoism strengthened Yang's support for Deng's agenda of Chinese economic reform.

The failure of rural guerrilla and the new policy adopted by China since Mao's death in 1976 led PCdoB to break completely with Maoism.

PCdoB then aligned itself with Maoism.

The ideological trajectory of CPC-ML changed from Maoism and support for the People's Republic of China against what it saw as the revisionist ( or Khrushchevite ) Soviet Union, to later siding with Albania during the Sino-Albanian split that came two years after the death of Mao Zedong.

It developed party to party relations with the Party of Labour of Albania and renounced Maoism.

In 1962 he lived in New York for a year before relocating to Communist China from 1963 until 1965, where he worked as a translator on the French edition of the magazine China Under Construction until his disillusionment with Maoism.

Other composers influenced by Maoism include the Americans Christian Wolff and Frederic Rzewski and the Japanese composer-pianist Yuji Takahashi, all of whom also incorporated political song material into their compositions, though without wholly surrendering the other more abstract musical concerns of their earlier work, whilst the British composer Dave Smith continued to some extent in the tradition established by Cardew, as well as frequently making use of the medium of the nineteenth-century melodrama for speaker and piano, with a wide variety of texts relating to issues in Ireland, Palestine, and elsewhere.

With Mao and Zhou Enlai gone, there was no one else in China with his experience and leadership abilities and his ideas seemed fresh and appealing as opposed to Hua's stale promotion of Maoism.

Compared to their forebears, the " skeptical generation " was much more capricious, willing to embrace more extreme socialist ideology ( such as Maoism ), and public heroes ( such as Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara ), while living a looser and more promiscuous lifestyle.

Even in modern times Castroism distinguishes itself from other communist ideologies, such as Trotskyism or Maoism, in that it supports a more socialist theory of governance and its focus on Latin American solidarity and Cuban nationalism, as well as the exportation of revolution to other countries ( see Angola and Congo ).

An active trade unionist, he was a socialist republican from an early stage and was much influenced by Maoism in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Nevertheless, despite the “ Maoism vs. Marxism – Leninism ” differences interpreting Marxism, Russia and China aided North Vietnam, headed by Ho Chi Minh, in fighting the Vietnam War ( 1945 – 75 ), which Maoism defined as a peasant revolution against foreign imperialism.

As a section of the Committee for a Workers ' International it has a Trotskyist analysis which rejects Stalinism as well the cultural revolution approach of Maoism.

Maoism sees the agrarian peasantry, rather than the working class, as the key revolutionary force which can fundamentally transform capitalist society towards socialism.

These New Leftists are also against capitalist " so-called " democracy and look favorably on the " revolutionary Maoism " of a generation ago, in contrast to the corruption and money-centeredness they see in current Chinese society.