re: #62 HappyWarrior

Maoists were also more willing to use the peasantry for their revolution too. I guess this is what interests me about the various isms is not the differences between communism, capitalism, fascism, etc but the differences that happen within these movements. Like I guess you could say I’m interested in the subtle differences between Franco’s more clerical fascism, Mussolini’s state based fascism, and Hitler’s racial fascism.

I have read that Mao never actually read Marx and only used the language of communism because he liked Stalin’s absolutism. Plus he favored the whole “socialism in one country” thing since it’s easier to keep your own under control than if they’re off getting corrupted while attempting to spread “revolution”. The ultimate distillation of both Stalin & Mao is the North Korean Juche which is best translated as “putting Korea in the form of the Kim dynasty first”.