The Political Leadership of Mao Zedong

Unit - 2 : Political Thought, 

The Political Leadership of Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese Communist leader. ... He led the Communist Party of China to victory in a civil war against the Nationalist regime.

showTranscriptions. Maoism, or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛泽东思想; pinyin: Máo Zédōng sīxiǎng), is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed for realising a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China.

Maoism is the doctrine formulated by Mao Zedong and his associates. Mao's particular strand of revolutionary theory took from the Marxist, Leninist, and Stalinist traditions but was also culturally tailored for the Chinese people. Maoism departed from other strands of Marxism in its understanding of peasantry: not as a class incapable of achieving political consciousness but as one with a dormant but tappable source of revolutionary energy. Maoism harbored other idiosyncrasies, including its conception of contradictions and of permanent revolution. Although regarded as something of an ideological relic in present-day China, the doctrine has nonetheless inspired other revolutionary movements.