Your challenge is to have revolutionary Maoist groups sieze power in more places throughout the world than IOTL. Goodluck!
Your challenge is to have revolutionary Maoist groups sieze power in more places throughout the world than IOTL. Goodluck!
I can't really name any pro-Soviet example group, but places like India and Nepal have active Communist movements and Nepal has actually undergone a Maoist revolution as of late. So Maoism has actually succeeded pretty well all things considered.
Please describe Nepalese Maoism. Is there such a thing as "soft Maoism" that merely stresses certain tenets such as agricultural self-sufficiency without Chairman Mao's societal implosion?
In some ways, you could argue that Maoism was more successful than the Moscow Marxist-Leninism. There was a huge shift away from the Soviet line after incidents like the Prague Spring, and a lot of the youth groups and terrorist organizations we now associate with leftism looked up to the example of Mao.
Not to mention, most active militant Communists groups today are Maoist in nature, especially in the third-world. I can't really name any pro-Soviet example group, but places like India and Nepal have active Communist movements and Nepal has actually undergone a Maoist revolution as of late.
So Maoism has actually succeeded pretty well all things considered.
To make Maoism more "successful", DPRK victory in the Korean War with Chinese involvement is a good start.
China, Somalia, Albania, and the Khmer Rougue. All of them were very different though, but they allied with Mao. The only one close to the clusterfuck that is Mao were the Khmer Rougue, who went above and beyond Mao, or slightly less than him depending on the POV, in wreaking havoc.would anyone care to contribute to a list of countries that could've potentially gone "maoist," in an extreme or soft sense of the term, between 1949 and 1989?
Whether Maoism is Maoism if it is as distantly removed from the actual tenets and practices of the CP under Mao is slightly more than a semantic debate. One could postulate a world dominated by Hoxhaites with Albania as the motherland of socialism—would this still be a triumph of Maoism?
would anyone care to contribute to a list of countries that could've potentially gone "maoist," in an extreme or soft sense of the term, between 1949 and 1989?
Only if the Maoist line wins in the DPRK. The DPRK was riven with four competing lines:
1) A Soviet line, from those in the Soviet Union during the war
2) A Maoist line, from those in China during the war
3) A natively developed line, from those who spent the war under Japanese occupation
4) The Kim Il-sung line.
What are some of the differences between Juche and (domestic) Maoism as the DPRK understands it (or understood it)?
I doubt that the Kim character cult is a distinguishing feature between domestic "original" Maoism and Juche, given that Mao himself also indulged in quite a bit of character cult behavior.
What are some of the differences between Juche and (domestic) Maoism as the DPRK understands it (or understood it)?
I doubt that the Kim character cult is a distinguishing feature between domestic "original" Maoism and Juche, given that Mao himself also indulged in quite a bit of character cult behavior.
The DPRK certainly lacked an internal revolutionary movement which was harnessed by the Party against other bits of the Party.