Maoism is a system of Marxism-Leninism developed by Mao Zedong, who adjusted standard Marxist precepts to Chinese circumstances. While preserving the central principles of Marxism, Maoism also addresses concerns not answered by Marxism-Leninism and it negates several conclusions of Marxism-Leninism. Marxism views all social conflict as driven by the economic struggle between classes. Marxism theorizes that human progress is caused when a more forward-thinking class subjugates a less advanced class. During his time, Karl Marx perceived the triumph of the bourgeoisie over the aristocratic class. He believed that it was both indispensable and foreordained that the working class would overthrow the capitalist class and engender an egalitarian socialist society. Marx believed that all workers regardless of nationality or ethnicity had the same interest in effecting a world socialist revolution. Lenin was …show more content…
Maoism is a blend of views in which conceptions borrowed from Marxism are integrated with Mao's idealist, pragmatic and revisionist principles. This paper's focus on Maoist and Marxist-Leninist views on revolution highlight a number of important differences. What makes Maoist views most different is its insistence on understanding revolution in terms of the particularities of China. For Mao, this meant that revolution initially would include multiple classes; that it would begin and develop with an agrarian organization; that it would be carried out by a party of the masses rather than a vanguard of the working class and enlightened intellectuals; and that bourgeois, capitalist, and imperialist ideologies cannot be destroyed through simple, one-time political revolutions but they must be fought against in perpetual, costly and often highly violent programs of cultural