maoism

Obviously very implausible but so is basically every Nazi Victory scenario, so... Let's just say that for whatever reason the Nazis are much MUCH more successful during Barbarossa, with Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad falling by 1943 and from they are the war drags on into a horrific...

The Naxalites are a Maoist Indian insurgency. While they technically started in the 70s they reached their height in the 2000s. After decades of decline the various Naxalite groups united and started an offensive. While it has declined since it's still a major threat. What if during their peak...

How can we have where instead of the Baath party taking power, Pro-China communists take power in Iraq? Were there any Maoists in the ICP and if not could the USSR's support of Egypt push Iraq into the Pro-China camp? Would they try to recreate the great leap forward right down to the poor...

"Had Mao died in 1956, his achievements would have been immortal. Had he died in 1966, he would still have been a great man but flawed. But he died in 1976. Alas, what can one say?" These are the famous words of Chen Yun. And they got me wondering. What if Mao really had died in 1956? Who might...

What if the Communist Revolution in Afghanistan had been Maoist-inspired instead of Soviet/Marxist-inspired, with the aim of making Afghanistan a Peoples Republic based on Maoist principles and effectively looking east to Communist China as an inspiration and model and not the USSR? “The...

RED AUGUSTUS: the Cultural Revolution as a global revolution timeline (Painting by Cheng Conglin) Raise high the great red flag of Mao Zedong Thought, unite the Party Central and Chairman Mao, and crush all kinds of restraints and subversive plots of revisionism; to eliminate resolutely...

Just as the title says, what happens if Soviet Union allowed large-scale immigration into the USSR? Will it resulted in more Chinese people becoming Soviet citizens? In which parts of the USSR will have large numbers of Chinese immigrants? How will this affect on relationship between Soviet...

Maoism was a major ideological break with doctrinaire Marxism-Leninism, but also seems inevitable in the sense that an anti-colonial communist was likely to orient a movement around rural peasants instead of industrial workers at some point. An alt-Maoism wouldn't be influenced by Chinese...

During the OTL Cold War North Korea managed to play both China and U.S.S.R. against one another, receiving aid from both without committing itself to a fully to either. However, there were factions within North Korea that wanted to see the nation align with one of its bigger neighbors (I’ve...

It is said that Richard Nixon’s trip to China helped to open China up to economic reform, leading to the economical giant it is today. But what if this never happened? Say that Nixon loses the election, or he simply never goes to China. What are the consequences?

So, suppose that the PRC crushes the KMT even further in the Chinese Civil War, by somehow invading and occupying the island of Taiwan. Perhaps a better communist performance at the Battle of Guningtou? What happens next? Without a friendly capitalist rump chinese regime to negotiate with, what...

The Way the Wind Blows The Collapse of Western Capitalism and the Second Cold War "History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away." - Chairmen Tariq Ali "The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man." - Huey P. Newton Prologue The Unexpected Mikhail...