Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The form of Marxism-Leninism developed in China chiefly by Mao Zedong.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A form of communism developed in China by Mao Zedong.
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- noun The
philosophy espoused by Mao Zedong of the Communist Party of China. - noun The
act orstate of living in accord with thephilosophy of Chairman Mao Zedong.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a form of communism developed in China by Mao Zedong
Etymologies
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Examples
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Later some international parties began to use the term Maoism instead of Mao Thought.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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I p.418 It was renegade Lin Biao who during the 9th Congress of the CPC when he had wrongfully usurped power in his hand, mischievously imposed the term Maoism and said that “Mao Zedong Thought was Marxism-Leninism of the era”.
Archive 2006-06-01 Abhay N 2006
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The Mexican system outperformed the Chinese system, which was bogged down by Maoist ideological craziness, for the next 40 years, but in recent decades, corruption and violence among the Mexican elites worsened, while China, shedding Maoism, is coming on fast.
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"Digital Maoism" is silly - the Hive Mind is cool.
Calacanis Diggs Meta Journalism Meets Digital Maoism for Netscape Ben Barren 2006
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"Digital Maoism" is silly - the Hive Mind is cool.
Calacanis Diggs Meta Journalism Meets Digital Maoism for Netscape Ben Barren 2006
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But calling Maoism a "threat" helps situate the public view about this far-left movement.
Analysis 2010
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But calling Maoism a "threat" helps situate the public view about this far-left movement.
Analysis 2010
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We have only insufficient and conflicting evidence about what ideologies the Khmer Rouge leaders found most compelling, and it is difficult to know to what extent these beliefs, such as Maoism, were actually pervasive and convincing beyond the core group.
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Therefore, to speak of Maoism as the enrichment of Marxism-Leninism, or, of a "new stage"
Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006
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'Maoism' (after all, the Congress can't be seen as anti-Islamic), but to the exact same end.
Countercurrents.org 2010
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