• ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      He was not. But he called himself one, that’s the point I was making.

      We all know his positions were different, but his optics were focused around using Maoism to his personal advantage.

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        9 months ago

        A Maoist, not a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. No one really called themselves an MLM til the 80s, when the PCP/Shining Path officially “synthesized” it.

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          9 months ago

          True, but wouldn’t a Maoist by extension be a Marxist-Leninist? MLM certainly had its connotations because of groups like the shining path, but I meant that more in the way that he used legends from Marxist-Leninism, and Maoism to draw support.