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in my experience, a depressing number of western maoists haven't actually read mao, and it shows.
There's a weird phenomenon that happens to western maoists outside the Black radical tradition where they somehow transmute themselves into a kind of reverse Left Communism, where instead of despising the global south and AES they attempt to universalize historical conditions in the global south and apply them to the imperial core
Creating these bizarre expectations where apparently if we play our cards right a "peasants revolution" could totally be imminent in the United States
Really? Not even reading the Little Red Book and calling it theory? I admit that I haven't met many self-identified Maoists myself, mostly I just read what they write.
a lot of them are Gonzaloists
You're in for a fun time when you run into a Maoist who's apparently only read Combat Liberalism.
*Only read the title of combat liberalism
Only read Combat Liberalism and constantly tries to get everyone to read it even though their audience has no chance of understanding it (just like them!).
As bleak as that would be, I genuinely think I could work with that. Combat Liberalism puts a huge emphasis on intellectual integrity, which is necessary for disabusing someone of things like the OOP.
my encounters with those people have admitadly been few, as well as superficial, so i might not be the best judge.
it's just, that in my experience, they at times tend to be more about the vibe of maoism, than the actual substance. i was bringing up stuff from on practice during organisational stuff for some work my org did together with some local maoists and some of them gave the impression of not being familiar with the text, which left me somewhat shocked, lmao
i don't live in that place anymore, so maybe they've since gotten better, idk