Took part in an RGS and the head people all push that Maoism is scientifically the best form of Communism. Can anyone explain this view? Also, the group seems to want everyone to hold this view. Isn’t splitting into sub-ideologies hurting the potential for a larger movement?

-a confused newbie.

  • I’ve yet to find an ML who doesn’t consider Khrushchev an opportunist; roughly speaking, Maoists believe that Mao’s ideas (designed to fit China’s conditions at the time, e.g. people’s war) are universally applicable, ignoring the material conditions