Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk Re: ANSWER, cops, breakaways

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Feb 18 06:40:30 PST 2003


Chiang Ching wrote:
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> Does Marxist-Leninist-Maoist count?

The term "Maoist" rather dissolves what seems to me central to what we can learn from the Chinese CP 1930 to 1960 or so, the separation between "ism" (fundamental theory of the capitalist era) and "thought" (the theory and practice of a particular revolutionary movement in a particular time and place).

To put not entirely flippantly, the first thing we must learn from Mao is not to be Maoists.

Carrol



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