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Classical Marxism and Maoism: A comparative study |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Department of History and Social Sciences, Russian Federation;2. Saint Petersburg State University, Department of Political Sciences, Russian Federation;1. School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Australia;2. Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia;3. Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia;1. Department of International Competitiveness, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland;2. IBD Business School, Warsaw, Poland;3. Department of Development Economics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland |
| Abstract: | The issue of the Marxist character of “Mao Zedong Thought” has never really been resolved. The present work is a comparative analysis of the classical Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and the ideology of Mao Zedong. The argument is made that whatever Marxism there was in Maoism was the “creatively developed Marxism” of V. I. Lenin—which allowed for socialist revolution in retrograde economic circumstances—something that had been specifically rejected by Marx and Engels. That led to the theoretical idiosyncrasies that characterized Maoism throughout its history, and ultimately resulted in the form rejected by Deng Xiaoping and post-Maoist China. |
| Keywords: | Karl Marx Classical Marxism V. I. Lenin State capitalism J. V. Stalin Mao Zedong Socialism Proletarian consciousness Elite Market economy Developmental dictatorship |
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