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.
>