The first political attitudes of Mao Zedong took shape against a background of profound crisis in China in the early 20th century. Shortly after Mao's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping initiated socialist market reforms in 1978, thereby beginning the radical change in Mao's ideology in the People's Republic of China (PRC). And the militancy of young, mostly white workers in the nationally publicized Lordstown, Ohio strike indicated the possibility of radicalism spreading to a sector that had been shunned by most of the New Left. The immediate impetus for the rise of U.S. Maoism was the large-scale radicalization that took place in the late 1960s. U.S. partisans of “Mao Tse Tung Thought” were never able to unite into a single Maoist party. Among his many films are political documentaries including The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America, Trump: The Art of the Insult, There's No Place Like Utopia, Dreams from My Real Father, Atomic Jihad, and Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam. Democrat leaders are barely able to contain themselves; their authoritian nature is bursting out at the seams. Thus U.S. Maoism took shape only partly as an orthodox expression of Chinese doctrine: other versions of Marxism-Leninism which gave major emphasis to the struggles of Third World peoples abroad and communities of color at home were also part of the mix. Thousands of young people decided that “the system” could not be reformed and that social revolution in the United States was necessary, desirable, possible and even just around the historical corner. The mass movements from the 1960s in which Maoism had first found a base – the student, antiwar and Black Liberation Movements especially – were ebbing; meanwhile the currents on the rise – the women’s, lesbian/gay and anti-nuclear movements – were far less hospitable to Maoist views. This unraveling process took a few years to unfold, however, and when it began some of the weaker forces from Maoism’s first phase believed they could build a party that avoided the blind loyalty to Beijing and infantile left posturing that they hypothesized had wrecked the initial Maoist efforts. Self-righteous twenty-somethings raging against older people who dare to think differently to them. And think of what Chinese communist society looks like today: Government invents and dictates laws on a daily basis as it pleases, No freedom of movement without identity papers. The left has many powerful allies: Hollywood, the entire mainstream media, the federal bureaucracy, the intelligence services, big tech, Canada, America's European allies, and China. This makes her discussion of Maoism in the US, for instance, thin and hollow. Leftist politicians are drooling with glee now that their collective fantasy of being elevated to leadership in a distant far-off Utopia has become a present reality. Some Maoist groups (OL, for example) proclaimed loyalty to whatever faction held power in Beijing. The one last obstacle in their way, the existential threat to their Utopian agenda (as depicted in my film There's No Place like Utopia), is a 73-year-old "unfit" reality TV buffoon who colluded with Russia and then Ukraine to keep them out of power. Smaller organizations that attained a measure of influence during the late 1970s and early ’80s included the Boston-based Proletarian Unity League, which promoted the notion of a purified Maoism free of infantile left tactics; and the California-centered Democratic Workers Party, which advocated an unorthodox strain of communism (“world systems theory”) and was notorious for its cult-like functioning even in a movement hardly known for democracy or openness. As a variant of Marxism, Maoism offered a systemic analysis linking interventionist war and domestic injustice to the economic imperatives of monopoly capitalism. Here in Hollywood, where many are employed because of Chinese capital (like the good folks at the WHO), they are collectively celebrating the fact that Bill Maher's hope for a recession is here. Supposedly the “spontaneous movements” of workers and oppressed nationalities were growing rapidly in size and militancy; the crucial need was for a disciplined Bolshevik-style vanguard with the correct political line to provide adequate leadership: hence “Party Building Is Our Central Task.” With a few exceptions, Maoist groups had an unfriendly attitude toward the rapidly growing women’s liberation movement (dismissing it as petty bourgeois) and were intensely hostile to homosexuality and the emerging lesbian/gay rights movement. Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above. To the contrary, the always-contentious relationships among the different Maoist groups became even worse. These leftists can hardly believe the good fortune the coronavirus is heaping upon America. Login or register to post comments . Maoism i… Wild-eyed youths tearing down statues. How were you first introduced to politics? This does … These new initiatives were both smaller and more politically diverse than those earlier in the decade. U.S. Maoism was faced with a choice between following Beijing or sticking to its anti-imperialist roots, and the result was a bitter rupture: most of the largest organizations backed China, while the Guardian, the CLP, dozens of smaller circles and most of Maoism’s periphery supported the MPLA. This Week in China’s America’s History: January 6, 2021 / August 7, 1966. It’s even possible that, as in China, it will end up first destroying, then rescuing, the party. Copyright: This work is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Common Deed. Brendan O'Neill. And even these were shattered by the profound crisis which overtook every section of world communism beginning in the mid-1980s. Donald Trump is the one man, perhaps the only thing, standing in the way of Democrats living out their fantasy as social engineers and gods of paradise on Earth. The chief tenets of Mao Zedong's communist philosophy – blacklists, cleansings, and purges – have arrived in the United States. vassar / August 11, 2019 For years we’ve been steered toward the old Soviet Union as the model of Marxism to either admire or hate in America. "Maoism" was the centerpiece of the ideology of Obama's "accidental neighbor," terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers, who wrote the American communist manifesto in … Maoism does not give value to industrialization or technology. PL (publishers of Challenge newspaper) sent its cadre into SDS in February 1966 where they played a prominent and controversial role, centering one of the two main factions in SDS’ June 1969 split and collapse. Maoism in America? Although Mao Zedong Thought nominally remains the state ideology, Deng's admonition to "seek truth from facts" means that state policies are judged on their practical consequences and in many areas the role of ideologyin determining policy has thus been considerably reduced. Maoism springs from Marxism-Leninism, but while Marx dismissed peasants as “sacks of potatoes”, Mao developed a socialism that was rooted in a rural society exploited by imperialism. That's how Democrats like it, because that's what works. Speakers are routinely shut down. Rival trends on the U.S. Left – in particular, a social democracy re-energized by the emergence of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the launching of In These Times newspaper in 1976 – began to give Maoism serious competition. The Red Guard cartel – the Democratic Party, the fake news industrial complex, and young Antifa/BLM activists – will employ these tactics as part of a full-frontal assault against MAGA Country. Gradually, nationwide democratic-centralist groups (“pre-party formations”) began to emerge. By the middle of the 1980s Maoism as a viable trend had disappeared, although various small organizations espousing offshoots of Maoist ideology continued to exist on the fringes of the U.S. Left. "Maoism" was the centerpiece of the ideology of Obama's "accidental neighbor," terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers, who wrote the American communist manifesto in 1974 entitled Prairie Fire, inspired by Mao Tse-Tung's saying, "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire." Maoism is a set of contradictory ideas that has distinguished itself from Soviet guises of Marxism in several important ways. At one pole were those circles who had broken most sharply with China’s policies in the controversy over Angola: they formed a loose “anti-dogmatist and anti-revisionist trend” which included the Guardian, a network of local collectives calling itself the Organizing Committee for an Ideological Center, the Union of Democratic Filipinos and sets of activists grouped around the new journals Theoretical Review and Line of March. The OL was formed in 1972 through the merger of local collectives in Atlanta and Los Angeles, grew to almost 1,000 members (about one-third activists of color, a greater percentage than RU and more typical of the “multinational” New Communist organizations – those that did not focus on a specific oppressed minority). Mao’s main contention rested on the view that the working class could not be a revolutionary vanguard (á la Lenin) – it barely existed in China at the time. And just like in communist China, there are no checks and balances, and our courts are conveniently closed. The height of optimism about uniting Maoism’s different strands into a single party came in 1973. Maoism was more popular in the 1970s in the U.S., which may account for there being a bunch of closet middle-age Maoists around. Alternatively, it could divide Republicans, and draw Trumpists into a new political machine. All this left Maoism in shambles. Then finally there is the lifelong aversion that Mao had to intellectuals. "Virus free" identify cards and big tech tracking schemes are being floated. Donald Trump clearly was and is, as Nancy Pelosi often repeats, "an existential threat." And then, at last, the left stumbled upon an argument for American surrender, to which the American people, and even President Donald Trump, capitulated without a fight: America has indeed surrendered to the left, without even realizing it. Think of...the coronavirus. But these late-’70s initiatives never attained the size or influence of their predecessors. Putin Kitsch in America ... What did “Maoism” mean in the everyday? The immediate impetus for the rise of U.S. Maoism was the large-scale radicalization that took place in the late 1960s. Between 1968 and 1972 dozens of these were formed by (overwhelmingly white) activists coming out of SDS, especially from the Revolutionary Youth Movement II faction which had opposed both PL and the Weatherman group. They demanded America surrender by way of a special counsel and Congress because: Trump mentioned something or other about Biden's corruption to the president of Ukraine! Entrenched problems of sectarianism, doctrinaire orthodoxy and anti-democratic practices began to sap membership morale and repel potential supporters. Today only a few organizational remnants of 1970s Maoism survive – and these are either tiny or unrecognizable as Maoist or both. Conservatives and patriots are warily observing all of this, along with President Trump (shadowed by Fauci and Birx), hoping the Maoism will clear up along with the virus in a few weeks. Marxism–Leninism–Maoism is a political philosophy that builds upon Marxism–Leninism and Maoism. However, after eight years of fraud and abuses of the Constitution by the Obama administration, America revolted by electing Donald Trump. Finally, during its formative period Maoism did not appear to be an ideology distinct from or in competition with broader currents of revolutionary thought, especially the views of the Vietnamese and Cuban Communist Parties and the liberation movements in southern Africa and the Middle East. The largest organizations experienced splits and large-scale membership losses if not total collapse. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism emerged as the new revolutionary path to be upheld by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and the evidence was the Shining Path led by Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso. I still want to highlight an event from China’s history and point out its relevance today, but this time the comparison starts not in China’s past, but in America’s present. Though Maoist ideas rapidly gained influence, the Maoist organization directly descended from the Old Left isolated itself badly. If European Marxism was a child of the Industrial Revolution, Maoism’s birthplace was the battlefields of the peasant revolutions that plagued China during the 19th and 20th centuries. States of America. Deeply discredited by China’s counterrevolutionary alliance with U.S. imperialism, demoralized facing the prospects of hard struggle in the Reagan years, American Maoism has come to the end of the line. As I pointed out in my film, Dreams from My Real Father, Barack Obama succeeded as much as he did by using "stealth socialism." The largest Maoist groups in the early ’70s were the Revolutionary Union (RU) and the October League (OL) – both of which emerged mainly out of SDS – and the Communist League – formed when some former SDSers joined with a core of activists who had left the CPUSA after defending Stalin in 1956-58. Because of the coronavirus, the endgame of the leftist agenda is suddenly upon us. Home / Forums / Regions / North America. Prim, unforgiving university students stalking their campuses in search of … Tuesday, 1 September 2020 Wild-eyed youths tearing down statues. It's not even the "soft left" Scandinavian-style socialism that Bernie Sanders would have us believe was his newly found passion (replacing his lifelong Stalinist aspirations). Beginning in the late 1970s – as the Chinese party ever more openly abandoned its earlier advocacy of anti-imperialism and social revolution – the Maoist trend began to disintegrate almost as rapidly as it arose. Far more numerous are the thousands of individuals who passed through New Communism and now play influential roles in various social movements, especially in the trade unions and in communities of color. The pivotal year was 1968, which saw the Vietnamese Tet offensive; the French May and the Czech August; the assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent rebellions in black communities across the U.S.; and the forced withdrawal of Lyndon Johnson from the presidential race only to see the Democratic Party nominate Hubert Humphrey as police battered demonstrators in the st… Deng also separated Mao from Maoi… It's not even the "soft left" Scandinavian-style socialism that Bernie Sanders would have us believe was his newly found passion (replacing his lifelong Stalinist aspirations). It was called the Cultural Revolution. [37] Later, Latin American Communists such as Peru’s Shining Path also embraced the tenets of Maoism. For a time, the depth of Maoism’s crisis was obscured by the energy of a few “second wave” efforts at party building, which generally avoided the extreme ultra-left tactics and over-inflated rhetoric that characterized Maoism’s early days. To be published in America by Knopf in September; $37.50. You can freely copy, distribute and display this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. A Neo-Maoist Cultural Revolution Is Underway In America, And It's Being Led By The Country's Political And Economic Elite. Maoism’s advocacy of a disciplined, secretive party also spoke to the frustrations many felt with the chaotic functioning of most New Left formations – as well as to the growing concerns they had about building organizations capable of resisting infiltration and repression. The biggest, entitled “What Road to Building a New Communist Party?” drew 1,200 to a New York City auditorium, and the tape and transcript were heard and read by thousands more across the country. As I pointed out in my film, Because of the coronavirus, the endgame of the leftist agenda is suddenly upon us. But matters came to a head just a year later when conflict broke out in Angola following the successful conclusion of that country’s long battle against Portuguese colonial rule. Simultaneously, the policies of the Chinese CP began to put U.S. Maoists in a serious bind. A consensus on the political “lines of demarcation” defining the New Communist Movement was soon built: advocacy of violent revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat; rejection of the Soviet and U.S. Communist Parties for alleged “revisionism” (discarding the revolutionary principles of Marxism-Leninism); defense of Stalin as a great revolutionary and belief that after Khrushchev’s criticism of Stalin in 1956 the Soviet Union had moved toward restoration of capitalism and become an anti-revolutionary force. This self-described “New Communist Movement” (the term “Maoism” was then frowned upon) was overwhelmingly a creation of young people radicalized in the tumultuous 1960s. A few of these organizations remained vibrant into the 1980s and played significant roles in the Central America solidarity movement, Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns, and the Rainbow Coalition. The 1974 recession led to a decline rather than rise in worker militancy, affecting not just Maoism but all trends on the far Left. In the previous interview, you described the history of the formation of Leading Light, or at least the North American branch. Trump proceeded to fight back, exposing every detail of the left's fraudulent arguments, reducing them to nothing but echoes in the wind. Instead, the majority of China’s population consisted of peasants, so that the key role of the revolution should rest with them. Maoism and the American left? By the late 1990s, it seemed that the popular 1970s Maoist prediction, “The Future Is Bright, The Road Is Tortuous” had proven only half correct – and not the inspiring half that once infused U.S. Maoism with tremendous self-confidence and revolutionary zeal. The once-mighty Qing dynasty lurched from crisis to crisis as a result of discontent towards it in the aftermath of China’s defeat in the First Opium War (dates), which led to the view that China’s Manchu rulers had lost the fabled ‘Mandate of Heaven’… Maoism adopted the theory of Marxism and applied it to China. Others decided to hold up the banner of the ousted Gang of Four (RCP, which lost 40% of its members to the breakaway Revolutionary Workers Headquarters in the process) or the Albanian Communists (the MLP and a split-off from the BWC called the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee, later the Communist Party USA-ML). But by that time PL was moving away from mainstream Maoist positions to sharply attack the Vietnamese communists for “selling out” and the Black Panther Party for ”anti-working class nationalism.” These positions alienated the vast bulk of young radicals. Maoism isn't strong in the U.S. and is in fact a marginal movement even on the left. Meanwhile, the left's media allies feature on almost every channel images of funerals, new graphic models showing a likely resurgence of the virus, racial disparities of fatalities, and experts who say "it may last a year or two" — basically anything they can say to get Americans who surrendered so easily to "you might catch a virus" to agree to prolong their imprisonment in Maoist America. But the largest radical newspaper of the time, the 20,000-plus circulation Guardian, was a proponent of New Communist goals from 1971 to the end of the decade. However, Democrats and their media allies are doing everything they can to keep status quo Maoist America in place and will try to sabotage any attempt to eradicate the scourge. The Guardian took on the role of a movement-wide forum for news, communication and debate. Mao died and the winners in Beijing’s subsequent power struggle arrested his closest allies (the “Gang of Four”). Governors are declaring lockdowns in some states for months to come, and Pelosi is poised to prevent any further government relief to keep businesses afloat. Somewhat smaller than RU and OL, CL declared itself the Communist Labor Party of North America in September 1974; it published the People’s Tribune. This idea rings true. Rather than follow the Swedish model of government response to the coronavirus, which was simply to recommend that the population take extra care, the United States followed the draconian communist Chinese example of Maoism — apparently based on the recommendations of Democrats Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx. Hence the FTP position is vacant of any historical materialist understanding of the very ideology they claim to adhere to! CWP transformed itself into the non-Leninist New Democratic Movement in 1984 and then disintegrated altogether; Line of March officially disbanded in 1989 and the League of Revolutionary Struggle in 1990; the OL/CP (ML) and most of the other groups from Maoism’s first wave had collapsed earlier in the 1980s. Maoism and the American left? But by this time they were a disparate set of competing parties rather than any kind of identifiable trend. But it was downhill from there. Offline . The idea was for America to wake up one day in a socialist state, without ever realizing how it happened. But Maoist organizations are small and their influence is limited to a few big cities on the coasts. As a result, Maoism is becoming a reality for all Americans. That spring, spokespeople for almost all of the major Maoist groups participated in a series of forums sponsored by the Guardian. Until the final end of the Vietnam War in spring 1975, the consequences of China’s new posture remained somewhat muted. Similar groups were forged by activists who had spearheaded the Puerto Rican, Chicano, Asian American and African American youth movements. First Published: Encyclopedia of the American Left, Second Edition, 1998 Last post #1. A Neo-Maoist Cultural Revolution is underway in America, and it’s being led by the country’s political and economic elite. China sided with South African and CIA-backed mercenary armies against the Movement for the Popular Liberation of Angola – which had led the anti-colonial struggle – because the MPLA was backed by Cuba and the USSR. As far back as I can remember, I had a strong sense of justice. The RU was founded as the Bay Area Revolutionary Union in 1968, grew into a nationwide organization in 1970-71 and declared itself the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) in September 1975. Maoism’s (and China’s) prestige on the broader Left plummeted. The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement was destroyed and Abimael Guzmán has become a reactionary. Hollywood film director Joel Gilbert @JoelSGilbert is president of Highway 61 Entertainment. At the other end of the spectrum was the League of Revolutionary Struggle, formed in 1978 by a merger of I Wor Kuen and the August Twenty-Ninth Movement, with the Revolutionary Communist League joining a year later. Other groups formed in this period (some of which, in various combinations, became more prominent during New Communism’s second wave) included: I Wor Kuen, formed as a nationwide organization by a 1971 merger of New York and San Francisco collectives of Asian American youth; the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization, formed by the section of the Young Lords Party which turned to Maoism in 1971-72; the Black Workers Congress (BWC), an outgrowth of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which for a time after its 1971 founding congress existed as a loose national “mass/cadre” hybrid and, after a series of internal battles, consolidated as a small Maoist group in 1972-73; the August Twenty-Ninth Movement, which grew out of a section of the Chicano movement in the Southwest and held its “Unity Congress” in 1974; the Revolutionary Communist League, whose roots lay first in the Committee for a Unified Newark and then the Congress of Afrikan Peoples, which was active in several of the key expressions of the early-’70s Black Liberation Movement such as the National Black Assembly and the African Liberation Support Committee; the Workers Viewpoint Organization, initiated by ex-PL members as the Asian Study Group in 1973 and becoming the Communist Workers Party in 1979; the Marxist-Leninist-led Union of Democratic Filipinos, which anchored U.S. solidarity work with the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines; and the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists, which later became the pro-Albania Marxist-Leninist Party. In the process very little notice has been given to Maoism and the rise of the cult of personality that surrounded the most violent and cruel decade, 1964-1974, in modern human history. Maoism also stressed the pivotal role of the working class at just the moment when a round of militancy was stirring among U.S. workers, and activists leaving the campuses were chafing at the limits of student and youth politics. MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM IN THE US. Worse, the Soviet Union imploded and China abandoned Maoism … Cuba and Latin America? Guest: Aminda Smith is an Associate professor of history at Michigan State University where she specializes in social and cultural history of Chinese Communism. Some people make less income than others! MLM Collectives Mass Organizations Youth Organizations Proletarian Feminist Organizations RESOURCES FOR MAOISTS CONTACT US Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates. Ayers argued, as did Mao, that an entire communist revolution and subjugation of society could be sparked by a single event. It presented itself as the prime example and main champion of the Third World national liberation movements which were “shaking the empire.” China’s “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” (more accurately, the claims made for it) seemed to offer a more militant and democratic version of socialism than that of the Soviet Union. The Chicago-based Sojourner Truth Organization and the loose “Midwest Federation” of collectives which it led also functioned within the New Communist milieu, although its unorthodox brand of Marxism owed more to influences from the Italian extra-parliamentary left (among others) than to Maoism. If they are successful, Maoist America will be entrenched as a permanent reality based upon "Because you might catch a virus!". 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