Mao Zedong and Maoism—the ideology of peasant revolution guided by an all-knowing sage—inspired insurgent movements in Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and ...

Mao Zedong became one of the last century’s most powerful dictators by completely transforming Chinese society through the systematic use of violence, coercion, and aggressive propaganda. His method ...

In a 2018 BBC interview Jeremy Corbyn, the far left leader of the British Labour Party and possible future prime minister, referred approvingly to Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward (1958-62)—the biggest ...

Maoism is the world’s most infamous and impactful ideology of violent rural revolution. Boosted by the strategy and goals of Maoism, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) swept to power between its ...

Contemporary China no longer adheres to Mao Zedong’s ideas of permanent revolution and socialist internationalism. However, Chinese Maoism shaped the Palestinian national movement with a military ...

Mao Zedong died in 1976, but his political ideology survives to this day. "The Great Helmsman Mao Zedong has still left a heavy mark on Chinese politics and society," says acclaimed British scholar ...

A new generation of Chinese and Western scholars is enriching the history of Mao Zedong’s China with material from discarded personnel files, diaries, and unpublished manuscripts purchased from paper ...

Many of the Maoists having been to college or school had laid the foundation of some sort of intellectual career. But in order to achieve the 'populism' on the one hand and the 'folksiness' on the ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, addressing the Lok Sabha, outlined the history and spread of Naxalism in India, tracing its origins to the 1970s in West Bengal. He said the movement expanded across ...

A prelude to the breakdown of the state? Like Le Dantec writes, so too could one of our modern statesmen: replying to an article written by a former friend in the Trotsykist, Ligue Communiste ...