[lbo-talk] Maoists not communists: Karat

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 3 07:40:12 PDT 2009


The CCP is pushing for an urban, industrialized society, and they at least say they are Maoists. :)

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The key difference is the power base - for communism it is
> industrial proletariat an urban white collar workers, for
> Maoism - it is peasantry.  Marxist communism strove to
> build a modern industrial society sans bourgeoisie and
> bourgeois property relations.  Maoism, otoh, strove for
> a rural society sans landowners and urban influences. 
> The ultimate expression of Maoism was Pol Pot's policies of
> depopulating cities and forcibly removing their population
> to the countryside. 
>



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