I only know about Hoxha bc like a year ago I was reading Espresso Stalinist and they mentioned Hoxha. I don’t know much about him besides that he made bunkers, liked Stalin a lot and he called people Revisionist. This gives me no actual insight into whether he had good ideas or not. I know for a fucking fact that looking him up on YT will mislead me and I’ll be left more confused than I started. What is Hoxhaism and how does it differentiate from Marxism-Leninism generally? Is it an offshoot, what are your general opinions on Hoxha and the modern Hoxha community(if there even exist more than 200 of them worldwide)
Ultra-orthodox Marxist-Leninist. Pro-Stalin and anti-Khrushchev but tended to be quite dogmatic and couldn’t see the bigger picture when it comes to China. Ended up behaving quite badly toward the PRC even though Albania received a ton of help from China at a time when China itself struggled and didn’t have very much. Also like all Balkan leaders his relationship with other Balkan states was unnecessarily hostile, particularly Yugoslavia (though to be fair Tito definitely had issues and was also a bad neighbor).
There is no serious “modern Hoxha community”. For all intents and purposes it is a non-existent movement irl, and people who identify as Hoxhaists really only exist online. I’m not even sure there is still a Hoxhaist community of any significant size left in Albania itself.
The problem with niche tendencies like this is that they just get adopted by people looking for an identity, there is no actual political mass or a real world movement behind it like there is with Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, etc.
Even Trotkyism is more relevant, if for no other reason than that it is promoted by feds as the “tolerated” strain of communism since it is imperialism compatible and is can be used to infect leftist spaces with anti-AES dogma.