Maoism, Chinese (Pinyin) Mao Zedong Sixiang or (Wade-Giles romanization) Mao Tse-tung Ssu-hsiang (“Mao Zedong Thought”), doctrine composed of the ideology and methodology for revolution developed by Mao Zedong and his associates in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s until Mao’s death in 1976. Maoism has clearly represented a revolutionary method …

Mao Zedong Thought – a “spiritual atom bomb” in his own time, as his contemporaries and followers put it – has become something else. Eviscerated of its politics it can appear on T-shirts and business manuals, but not in the grand ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics.

As I have earlier pointed out, Mao himself constituted in his own lifetime Mao Zedong Thought or Maoism by making great contributions to the development of Marxism-Leninism in philosophy, political economy, party building (especially the rectification movement), the people’s war and the proletarian cultural revolution in socialist society.

Maoism is the doctrine formulated by Mao Zedong and his associates. Mao’s particular strand of revolutionary theory took from the Marxist, Leninist, and Stalinist traditions but was also culturally tailored for the Chinese people. Maoism departed from other strands of Marxism in its understanding of peasantry: not as a class incapable of achieving political consciousness but …

Aug 05, 2012 · The young Mao was a champion of women's rights. In early published essays, he attacked the arranged-marriage system and the way women were treated in the family. Later, in his reports on rural areas, he consistently gave attention to women's issues. The revolution that he led accepted the equality of the sexes as a major objective.