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'''Maoism''' ({{Lang-zh|s=毛主义|labels=no}}), officially called '''Mao Zedong Thought''' ({{Lang-zh|s=毛泽东思想|labels=no}}) by the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP), is a variety of [[Marxism–Leninism]] that [[Mao Zedong]] developed to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] and later the [[China|People's Republic of China]]. The philosophical difference between Maoism and traditional Marxism–Leninism is that a [[united front]] of progressive forces in class society would lead the [[vanguardism|revolutionary vanguard]] in pre-industrial societies<ref>Mao, Zedong. [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/ch06.htm "On Guerilla Warfare"]. Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung. Retrieved 11 April 2023.</ref> rather than communist [[revolutionaries]] alone. This theory, in which revolutionary [[Praxis (process)|praxis]] is primary and ideological orthodoxy is secondary, represents urban Marxism–Leninism adapted to pre-industrial China. Later theoreticians expanded on the idea that Mao had adapted Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions, arguing that he had in fact updated it fundamentally and that Maoism could be applied universally throughout the world. This ideology is often referred to as [[Marxism–Leninism–Maoism]] to distinguish it from the original ideas of Mao.<ref name="World History 2000. p. 769">Lenman, B.P.; Anderson, T., eds. (2000). ''Chambers Dictionary of World History''. p. 769.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Moufawad-Paul|first=J.|author-link=J. Moufawad-Paul|title=Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain|title-link=Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain|year=2016|publisher=Zero Books|location=New York City|isbn=978-1785354762}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lovell|first=Julia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kx1-DwAAQBAJ|title=Maoism: A Global History|year=2019|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-525-65605-0|oclc=1135187744|access-date=2020-05-02|archive-date=2020-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805201555/https://books.google.com/books?id=kx1-DwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
From the 1950s until the [[Chinese economic reform]]s of [[Deng Xiaoping]] in the late 1970s, Maoism was the political and military ideology of the Chinese Communist Party and Maoist revolutionary movements worldwide.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Meisner|first=Maurice|date=Jan–Mar 1971|title=Leninism and Maoism: Some Populist Perspectives on Marxism-Leninism in China|journal=The China Quarterly|volume=45|issue=45|pages=2–36|doi=10.1017/S0305741000010407|jstor=651881|s2cid=154407265 }}</ref> After the [[Sino-Soviet split]] of the 1960s, the Chinese Communist Party and the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] each claimed to be the sole heir and successor to [[Joseph Stalin]] concerning the correct interpretation of Marxism–Leninism and the ideological leader of [[world communism|communism]].<ref name="World History 2000. p. 769"/>
 
The term "Maoism" ({{lang|zhLang-hanszh|s=毛主义|labels=no}}) is a creation of Mao's supporters; Mao himself always rejected it and preferred the use of the term "Mao Zedong Thought".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wittfogel |first1=Karl A. |title=The Legend of 'Maoism' |journal=The China Quarterly |date=1960 |issue=1 |pages=72–86 |doi=10.1017/S0305741000022712 |jstor=763346 |s2cid=153676792 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/763346 |issn=0305-7410 |access-date=2022-03-13 |archive-date=2022-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313082750/https://www.jstor.org/stable/763346 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{page needed|date=March 2022}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chen |first=Jin |date=1 July 2016 |title=毛泽东眼里的"毛泽东" |work=[[People's Daily]] |url=http://dangshi.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0701/c85037-28514409-2.html |access-date=25 March 2023 |quote=毛泽东不同意叫“主义”,而接受“思想”的说法,按他的意思,他是马克思、列宁的学生,不敢和他们并列,再说那时他认为自己的思想作为一种“体系”还没有成熟。 |trans-quote=Mao Zedong disagreed with the term 'Maoism' and preferred the term 'Mao Zedong thought' as he thought of himself as a student of Marx and Lenin hesitated to place himself alongside them. Moreover, at that time, he believed that his thoughts had not matured into a complete 'system.}}</ref>
 
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