Marxism–Leninism–Maoism

A revolutionary communist ideology that develops Marxism–Leninism through Mao Zedong’s theory and practice, emphasizing protracted people’s war and continuing revolution.

Marxism: A political and economic theory that analyzes society through class relations, historical change, and the critique of capitalism. Marxism supplies the class analysis and revolutionary framework this ideology claims to develop.
Protracted people's war: A revolutionary strategy that builds political and military strength over time, often from rural bases, against a stronger state. This strategy is a defining account of how revolutionary forces can defeat a stronger opponent.
Chinese Communist Revolution: The revolutionary process that established the People's Republic of China in 1949 under Chinese Communist Party leadership. The revolution supplied the historical experience from which Mao’s strategy was drawn.
Marxism–Leninism: A communist ideology combining Marxist theory with Lenin’s theories of party organization and revolution. Marxism–Leninism is the tradition this ideology claims to extend rather than simply reproduce.
Leninism: A revolutionary theory associated with Vladimir Lenin, emphasizing a disciplined party and the struggle for state power. Leninist party organization and revolutionary strategy are inherited foundations.
Mass line: A political method of gathering ideas from the population, synthesizing them, and returning them as organized policy and action. It describes how a revolutionary party is supposed to learn from and mobilize the masses.
Mao Zedong: A Chinese communist revolutionary who led the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. His leadership and writings are the principal source of the ideology’s Maoist component.
Deng Xiaoping Theory: A Chinese political doctrine associated with market-oriented reform under Communist Party rule after Mao’s death. Its reformist course is commonly treated by Maoists as evidence of capitalist restoration.
Mao Zedong Thought: The body of revolutionary theory and practice developed by Mao Zedong in the Chinese communist movement. Maoist theory is the central source this synthesis extends and interprets.
New Democracy: Mao’s theory of a transitional state in which multiple classes cooperate against imperialism and feudalism under communist-party leadership. It offers a model for revolution in societies not yet ready for immediate socialist transformation.

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