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“”With eight hundred million people, how can it work without struggle?

— Mao Zedong

Maoism, also known as Mao Zedong Thought, is a rural version of Marxism-Leninism based on the teachings of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong that advocates the violent rebellion of peasants, the destruction of traditional culture, and the betrayal of family and other close allies and affiliates (so the CCP will be the only ally). Ironically, the Chinese communists do not really understand Marxism-Leninism. Lin Biao said that there were very few CCP members who had really read the works of Marx or Lenin. The public considered Qu Qiubai to be an ideologue, but he admitted to having read very little of Marxist-Leninist theory.

Maoism is economically far-left, totalitarian, and culturally far-left. Maoism and Mao Zedong has committed countless atrocities, degenerated the morals of future generations, and destroyed China's five-thousand year long traditions and culture.

History

Founding & Early Days

The founder of the CCP, Chen Duxiu, was an intellectual that disliked violence and wanted to keep good relations with the Kuomintang. But the Party didn't want and need peace. So came the labeling as a right-wing, then came a more violent leader, a more characteristic leader, a leader that suites the Party: Mao Zedong.

Maoism started to formulate in the 1930s, inside the unrecognized country that is the Chinese Soviet Republic. Mao was gaining influence, focusing on the rural areas, recruiting and creating revolutionary bases and filling the people with empty promises.

The leader of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek, began to eliminate the communists, for he saw right through their sugarcoated phrases and saw them as who they really are: corrupt bandits. In 1927, the Chinese Civil War between the Nationalists (KMT) and Communists (CCP). The KMT almost drove the CCP to extinction multiple times, and the Communists had to begin a long retreat to Yan'an, known as the Long March (1934-1936), during which Mao Zedong became the undisputed leader of the CCP.

Maoism tried to paint his stay at Yan'an like saints arriving at a revolutionary holy land, but he in reality he turned it into hell. Most people were not happy with how they lost so bad to the Nationalists, so Mao lunched the Rectification Movement in 1942, to root out what he called "petty bourgeoisie toxins". Everybody had to list all of their acquaintances since birth, all their important life events, and all social activities they had ever participated in, with an emphasis on their personal thought processes during the social activities. And they have to confess any thoughts or behavior that oppose the party. Yun'an was called the "place of purging human nature" during the Rectification, and former comrades in arms did not dare interact with each other because everyone was turning against each other. Those who lied, flattered and insulted each other were promoted. Humiliation became a factor of life in Yun'an—it was either to humiliate others or humiliate oneself. These things became a core part of Maoism and the Party, especially later on in more of Mao's campaigns.

Takeover in China

A Chinese comic illustrating how the CCP took power in mainland China.

In 1937, Japan invaded China. The Maoist CCP called out to the KMT to "resist Japan together". While the KMT did the actual fighting, the CCP just grew their power and fake-fought Japan. Many of the CCP's "achievements" in WWII are over-exaggerated. The Maoists only had 70,000 soldiers before the War Against Japan, but had more than 900,000 after, plus is being supported by the powerful Soviet Union. Moreover, the KMT was greatly weakened after the War, and all those factors combined together allowed the Maoists to overpower Chiang's forces, who fled to Taiwan. The CCP has been trying to "liberate" Taiwan ever since.

Rule in China

See also: Maoist China

In 1949, Mao Zedong founded the Maoist state of the People's Republic of China. Mao's reign was brutal, and reflected the violent nature of Communism. Maoist propaganda was everyplace, and almost everyone was either killed or brainwashed. Around 40-80 million people died due to Maoism in China. Mao and the CCP seized all the means of production, taking over all farmland, and turned all private companies into state-owned enterprises. This created a communist paradise, where everyone was equal… equally miserable, that is.

Land Reform & Eliminating the Landlord Class

Barely three months after the founding of communist China, Mao Zedong called for the elimination of the landlord class, as one of the guidelines for his nationwide Land Reform program. On the surface, land reform appeared to advocate an ideal similar to that of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping: All would have land to farm. But it was really just an excuse to kill. Tao Zhu (陶铸), who would later rank fourth in the CCP, had a slogan for land reform: " Bloodshed in every village, struggle in every household"—indicating that in every village the landowners must die.

Land reform could have been achieved without killing. It could have been done in the same way as the Taiwanese government implemented their land reform by purchasing the property from the landowners. However, as the CCP originated from a group of thugs and lumpenproletariat, all it knew was robbery. Fearing that it might suffer revenge after pilfering its victims, the CCP naturally needed to kill them and stamp out source of potential trouble.

The most common way to kill during the land reform was known as the struggle session. The Maoists fabricated crimes and charged the landlords or rich farmers. The public was asked how they should be punished. Some undercover Party members or activists who were already planted in the crowd would shot, "put them to death!" and the landlords and rich peasants were executed on the spot. At that time, anyone who owned land in the villages was classified as a local " tyrant". Those who often took advantage of the peasants were called " mean tyrants" those who often helped with repairing public facilities and donated money to schools and for natural disaster relief were called " kind tyrants," and those who did nothing were called " still/silent tyrants". Such classification was meaningless, however, because all the "tyrants" ended up being executed right away regardless of what category of "tyrant" they belonged to.

The Party's slogan "land to the tiller" indulged the selfish side of the landless peasants, encouraging them to struggle with the landowners by whatever means and to disregard the moral implications of their actions. The land reform campaign explicitly stipulated eliminating the landlord class and classified the rural population into different social categories. Twenty million rural inhabitants nationwide were labeled landlords, rich peasants, reactionaries, or bad elements. These new outcasts faced discrimination, humiliation, and loss of all their civil rights.

As the land reform campaign extended its reach to remote areas and the villages of ethnic minorities, the CCP's organizations also expanded quickly. Township Party committees and village Party branches spread all over China. The local branches were the mouthpiece for passing instructions from the CCP's central committee and were at the frontline of the class struggle, inciting peasants to rise up against their landlords. Nearly one hundred thousand landlords were killed during this movement. In certain areas, the CCP and the peasants killed the landlords' entire families, disregarding gender or age, as a way to completely wipe out the landlord class. In the meantime, the Mao Zedong and the CCP launched their first wave of propaganda, declaring that " Chairman Mao is the great savior of the people" and that "only the CCP can save China". During the land reform, landless farmers got what they wanted through the Mao's policy of reaping without laboring and robbing without concern for the means. Poor peasants credited the CCP and Mao Zedong for the improvement in their lives, and so accepted the Mao's propaganda that the Party worked for the interests of the people.

For the owners of the newly acquired land, the good days of "land to the tiller" were short-lived. Within two years, the CCP imposed a number of practices on the farmers, such as mutual-aid groups, primary cooperatives, advanced cooperatives, and people's communes. Using the slogan of criticizing "women with bound feet"—meaning those who are slow paced—the CCP drove and pushed, year after year, urging peasants to dash into socialism. With grain, cotton, and cooking oil placed under a unified procurement system nationwide, the major agricultural products were excluded from market exchange. In addition, the CCP established a residential registration system, barring peasants from going to the cities to find work or dwell. Those who were registered as rural residents were not allowed to buy grain at state-run stores, and their children were prohibited from receiving education in cities. Peasants' children could only be peasants, turning the 360 million rural residents of the early 1950s into second-class citizens.

Eliminating the Capitalist Class

Another class Mao wanted to eliminate were the bourgeoisie, who owned capital in cities and rural towns. While reforming China's industry and commerce, Mao told everyone that the capitalist class and the working class were different in nature: the former was the exploiting class while the latter was the class that did not exploit and opposed exploitation. According to this incorrect logic, the capitalist class was born to exploit and wouldn't stop doing so until it perished; it could only be eliminated, not reformed.

Maoism used both killing and brainwashing to "transform" capitalists and merchants. If you surrendered your assets to the state and supported the CCP and Mao, you were considered just a minor problem among the people. If, on the other hand, you disagreed with or complained about Maoist policy, you would be labeled a reactionary and become target. During the reign of terror that ensued during these reforms, capitalists and business owners all surrendered their assets. Many of them couldn't bear the humiliation they faced and committed suicide. Chen Yi (陈毅), then mayor of Shanghai, asked every day, "How many paratroopers did we have today?"—referring to the number of capitalists who had committed suicide by jumping from the tops of buildings that day. In only a few years, Mao Zedong eliminated private ownership in China.

Crackdown on Religion

Mao decided to commit another atrocity, he brutally suppressed religion and completely banned of all grass-roots religious groups following the founding of the People's Republic of China. In 1950, he instructed his local governments to ban all unofficial religious faiths and secret societies. He stated that those " feudalistic" underground groups were mere tools in the hands of landlords, rich farmers, reactionaries, and special agents of the Kuomintang. In the nationwide crackdown, the government mobilized the classes they trusted to identify and persecute members of religious groups. Governments at various levels were directly involved in disbanding such "superstitious groups", such as communities of Christians, Catholics, Taoists (especially believers of I-Kuan Tao), and Buddhists. They ordered all members of these churches, temples, and religious societies to register with government agencies and to repent for their involvement. Failure to do so would mean severe punishment. In 1951, the government formally promulgated regulations stating that those who continued their activities in unofficial religious groups would face a life sentence or the death penalty. Mao has officially set Communism as the state religion of China, with him as god.

Campaign to Suppress Counter-Revolutionaries

In March 1950, the Communist Party announced its Orders to Strictly Suppress Reactionary Elements, which is historically known as the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries. Unlike the emperors who typically granted amnesty to the entire country after they ascended to the throne, the CCP began killing the minute it gained power. Mao Zedong said in a document, "There are still many places where people are intimidated and dare not kill the counter-revolutionaries openly on a large scale." In February 1951, the central CCP said that except for Zhejiang Province and southern Anhui Province, "other areas which are not killing enough, especially in the large and mid-sized cities, should continue to arrest and kill a large number and should not put an end to it too quickly." Mao even recommended: "In rural areas, to kill the counter-revolutionaries, there should be over one thousandth of the total population killed… In the cities, it should be less than one thousandth." Being that the population of China at that time was approximately six hundred million, this "royal order" from Mao would have caused at least six hundred thousand deaths. Nobody knows where this ratio of one thousandth came from. Perhaps, on a whim, Mao decided these six hundred thousand lives should be enough to lay the foundation for creating fear among the people, and thus ordered it to happen. Whether those killed deserved to die was not the CCP's concern.

The People's Republic of China Regulations for Punishing the Counter-Revolutionaries announced in 1951 that those who "spread rumors" could be " executed at will". While the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries was being hotly implemented, Land Reform was also taking place on a large scale. In fact, the CCP had already started land reform within its occupied areas in the late 1920s.

By the end of 1952, the CCP-published number of executed "reactionary elements" was about 2.4 million. But in reality, the total death toll of landowners and former KMT government officials below the county level was at least 5 million.

Anti-Rightist Movement

In 1956, a group of Hungarian intellectuals formed the Petofi Circle, which held forums and debates critical of the Hungarian government. The group sparked a nationwide revolution in Hungary, which was crushed by Soviet soldiers. Mao took this Hungarian event as a lesson.

In 1957, Mao called upon Chinese intellectuals and others to "help the CCP rectify itself". This movement, known as the Hundred Flowers campaign, followed the slogan of "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend". Mao's purpose was to reveal the anti-Party elements among the people. In his letter to provincial Party chiefs in 1957, Mao stated that his intention was "luring the snakes out of their holes" by letting them air their views freely in the name of freedom of thought and rectifying the CCP. Slogans at the time encouraged people to speak up and promised no reprisals—the Party would not "grab pigtails, strike with sticks, issue hats, or settle accounts after the autumn", meaning the Party would not find fault, make attacks, place labels, or seek to retaliate. But soon the CCP initiated the Anti-Rightist Movement, declaring that 540,000 of the people who dared to speak up were " rightists ". Among them, 270,000 lost their jobs and 230,000 were labeled " medium rightists" or anti-CCP, anti-socialist elements.

Later, some summarized the CCP's political stratagems of persecution with four points: luring the snakes out of their holes; fabricating crimes, attacking suddenly, and punishing with a single accusation; attacking relentlessly in the name of saving people; and forcing self-criticism and using the most severe labels.

Through the Anti-Rightist Movement, all disobedient intellectuals were exiled and sentenced to re-education through forced labor, casting them to the bottom of society. The Party made scholars the subject of mockery and ridicule. The eradication the traditional elites ended the process of inheriting and passing on traditional Chinese culture over the generations. Young people at the time were no longer socialized and nurtured in that culture through the family, the schools, the society, or the village—and thus became a generation without traditional culture.

After the Anti-Rightist Movement, few independent voices remained, yet the CCP was still not satisfied. After all, the elderly still preserved the memory of traditional culture, and material objects, such as ancient artifacts and architecture, were everywhere. Moreover, art still carried traditional values.

Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao Zedong launched the Great Leap Forward campaign, aimed at industrializing China rapidly. It failed miserably due to communist policy, poor planning and corruption. Every peasant was put into communes so the government controls the food supply.

Mao saw that all the big players such as USA, UK and USSR were all producing loads of steel, so he wanted China to do the same. But, instead of taking the proper measures and precautions, he dragged farmers out of their lands to produce steel, forcing them to leave their crops to rot in the field. The farmers and many other ordinary people had to burn all their belongings (including their house) to keep a fire going for a makeshift furnace. The conditions were poor, just like the steel that was produced. The "steel" was just a bunch of mixed metals that can't even be used because no one actually knew how to make it.

Despite the shortage of farmers due to steel making policies, officials in every region escalated their claims of production yields as the provincial governors all wanted to please and earn favor of Mao. So, they report their grain and food production numbers higher than reality. This caused the governors to collect more and more food to meet their false reports, and when that was not enough, they demanded citizens' private food, and when that still wasn't enough, they raid people's homes of the vegetables and potatoes and every other food. This caused a lot of places to starve. Industrial and agricultural production collapsed, and policies such as achieving a grain production of 75,000 kilograms (165,347 pounds) per hectare (2.47 acres) to doubling steel production and eventually surpass Britain in 10 years and America in 15 were attempted year after year. These policies resulted in a grave, nationwide famine (the first nationwide famine in Chinese history, in fact) that cost millions of lives. Supporting Mao's policy or not marked the line between loyalty and betrayal, or in other words, the line between life and death.

Mao also thought the sparrows were eating the crops, so he set out a campaign to kill as many sparrows as possible. Sparrows were categorized in the "four pests" alongside rats, flies and mosquitoes. Sometimes, people banged on pots and pans trying to make the sparrows dizzy and fall. But the sparrows were actually the ones eating all the locusts, and with them gone, the locusts thrived and decimated crops on massive scales.

During this era, Maoist China implemented collective childcare and communal kitchens to replace the family. But because of the Great Famine that happened due to the Great Leap, Maoism was forced to sit back and let the family retake control.

Military Purges

In 1959, Marshal Peng Dehuai, the then Defense Minister of the PRC, made the fatal mistake of challenging the infallible wisdom of Chairman Mao Zedong. Peng had grown increasingly concerned about the disastrous consequences of Mao's latest grand experiment: the Great Leap Forward. This utopian plan to catapult China into industrial and agricultural supremacy had instead led to widespread famine, economic chaos, and tens of millions of deaths.

Peng aired his criticisms privately in a letter to Mao during the Lushan Conference in 1959, politely pointing out that maybe, just maybe, there were a few flaws in Mao's glorious vision. Big mistake. Mao, who by that point was deeply entrenched in his own Cult of Personality, interpreted the letter not as helpful feedback, but as an act of treason. The message was clear: questioning Mao = political suicide.

So what happened? Mao purged Peng Dehuai, stripping him of his titles and humiliating him before the Party elite. Peng was replaced by the much more obedient Lin Biao, who knew better than to challenge the Chairman's divine wisdom. But it didn't stop there—Peng's purge triggered a chain reaction throughout the PLA and the Communist Party. Anyone seen as loyal to Peng, skeptical of the Great Leap, or insufficiently enthusiastic about Mao's brilliance was targeted.

Ironically, the purging of experienced military leaders in favor of political yes-men would come back to haunt Mao during the later chaos of the Cultural Revolution, when even the army had to step in to stop the country from completely tearing itself apart. Peng himself would remain in political limbo until the 1970s, when he died in obscurity and ill health, having been thoroughly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. Only after Mao's death was Peng rehabilitated, and officially remembered as a national hero—long after it mattered.

Great Chinese Famine

The Great Chinese Famine, also known as the Three Year Famine, was the worst famine in history, and also was the only nationwide famine in China's 5000 year long history (spoiler alert, it was because it was not caused by the weather, instead by policies). It started in 1959 when the Great Leap Forward began taking its toll.

The Great Famine was falsely labeled a "Three-Year Natural Disaster" by the CCP. In fact, those three years had favorable weather conditions without any massive natural disasters like flooding, drought, hurricane, tsunami, earthquake, frost, freeze, hail or plague of locusts. The disaster was entirely man-made. Several reasons caused the famine, and all can be traced back to Mao and his policies. Some 30-42 million people died in three years.

Historically, in times of famine, the government would provide rice porridge, distribute the crops, and allow victims to flee from the famine. The CCP, however, regarded fleeing from the famine as a disgrace to the Party's prestige and ordered militiamen to block roadways to prevent victims from escaping the famine. When the peasants were so hungry as to snatch cereal from the grain depots, the CCP ordered shooting at the crowd to suppress the looting. Still, the hungry peasants were forced to take part in irrigation work, dam construction, and steel-making. Many dropped to the ground while working and never got up again. In the end, those who survived had no strength to bury the dead. Many villages died out completely as families starved to death one after another. People had to eat bark off of trees and grass off the ground in order to survive. And when that's all eaten up, they had to eat the corpses of the deceased, and when that is all gone too, many families had no choice but to take their own children's lives and consume them. Despite all the suffering clearly caused by Maoism, the CCP still insisted that it was caused by natural disasters and bad weather. During this time, people lived in conditions worse than primitive society, people lived like animals.

The famine ended somewhere around 1961 as policy reversals began. The Great Leap Forward officially ended a year later, in 1962. Because of the disastrous outcome, Mao was politically sidelined. But because he controlled the propaganda, he was able to sidestep the central party and launch the Cultural Revolution, which elevated Mao Zedong to communist godhood, while also plunging China into a decade of absolute chaos.

The Cultural Revolution

“”It was truly an unprecedented calamity: [The CPC] imprisoned millions due to their association with a [targeted] family member, ended the lives of millions more, shattered families, turned children into hoodlums and villians, burned books, tore down ancient buildings, and destroyed ancient intellectuals' gravesites, committing all kinds of crimes in the name of revolution.

— Qin Mu

In 1966, a new wave of violence rolled onto China, known as the Cultrual Revolution. As usual, it was initiated by Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. An uncontrollable red terror shook the mountains and froze the rivers. The Chinese Red Guards, who were radical Maoists, set out to destroy everything they find in their path. They were teenagers, idealistic, easy to indoctrinate, and naturally rebellious, which made perfect weapons.

The Cultural Revolution was aimed at destroying any and all remnants of traditional Chinese culture, termed the "Four Olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits). It was a time of massive destruction and extreme brutality, who knows how many relics of history were lost in the Maoists' zeal. Civilians whom the Maoists claimed to help suffered the most.

People often mistakenly think that the violence and slaughter during the Cultural Revolution happened mostly during the rebel movements and that it was the Red Guards and rebels who did the killing. However, thousands of officially published Chinese county annals indicate that the peak of unnatural deaths during the Cultural Revolution was not in 1966, when the Red Guards controlled most of the government organizations, nor in 1967, when the rebels fought among different armed groups. It was in 1968, when Mao regained control over the entire country. The murderers in those infamous cases were often army officers and soldiers, armed militiamen, and CCP members at all levels of the government.

In August 1966, the Red Guards expelled Beijing residents who had been classified in past movements as the Five Black Categories and forced them to the countryside. Incomplete official statistics showed that 33,695 homes were searched and 85,196 Beijing residents were expelled from the city and sent back to where their parents had originally come from. Red Guards all over the country followed suit, expelling more than 400,000 urban residents to the countryside. Even high-ranking officials whose parents were landlords faced exile to the country. The same month, Mao met Red Guard leaders at Tiananmen Square. Soon after, violent attacks broke out across China. Raised under communist atheism, the youth had no fear nor moral restraint. Backed by the CCP and Mao's instructions, the fanatical Red Guards, acting above the law, began beating people and looting homes nationwide.

In just a month, mobs of Red Guards have slaughtered over 1,700 people in the capital. Teachers were humiliated, tortured and beaten to death by their students. Entire families, babies included, were massacred simply for belonging to a certain broadly-defined social class.

In many regions, people labeled as members of the Five Black Categories and their families were wiped out in what was effectively a campaign of genocide, encouraged by officials like Xie Fuzhi. One of the most brutal examples happened in Daxing County near Beijing, where between 27 August and 1 September 1966, 325 people were killed across 48 villages. Victims ranged from an 80-year-old to a baby just 38 days old. In 22 households, not a single person was left alive.

In May 1984, after 31 months of intensive investigation, verification, and recalculation by the Central Committee of the CCP, the figures related to the Cultural Revolution were: Over 4.2 million people were detained and investigated; over 1.73 million people died of unnatural causes; over 135,000 people were labeled as counter-revolutionaries and executed; over 237,000 people were killed; over 7.03 million were disabled in armed attacks; and 71,200 families were destroyed. Statistics compiled from county annals show that 7.73 million people died of unnatural causes during the Cultural Revolution.

After Mao's Death

Mao Zedong died in 1976, only then did his reign of terror end. Mao's closest allies (including his wife Jiang Qing) were arrested by reformists. Maoists simply could not be in control of the government in order for the Chinese Communist Party to survive. The new government under Hua Guofeng arrested the Gang of Four and imprisoned them for life. Hua represented a form of Moderate Maoism, with ambitious but often unobtainable economic targets. Hua's failure and led to criticisms within the party and the weakening of his position, allowing Deng Xiaoping and his allies to attack Hua for " dogmatism", which eventually toppled his leadership.

Since then, Maoists have been seen as dissidents against the new Dengist regime. On the surface, the new regime still praises Mao. But, the many new Maoist movements were crushed with an iron fist.

Maoism in Other Countries

Despite all the violence caused by this destructive ideology, Maoism found his way to be exported to Africa, Southeast Asia, and Japan.

Maoism remains an active but ambiguous force in Asia, most notably in Nepal. After a decade of armed struggle, Maoist insurgents there agreed in 2006 to lay down their arms and participate in national elections to choose an assembly to rewrite the Nepalese constitution. Claiming a commitment to multiparty democracy and a mixed economy, the Maoists emerged from the elections in 2008 as the largest party in the assembly, before being overthrown by Gen Z in 2025.

Beliefs & Practices

Maoism is a violent ideology. He believes that only through violent struggle can a nation achieve communism, which is in line with Marxism-Leninism, in which Maoism can be seen as both a continuation and/or split. Mao, throughout his Marxist revolution in China, formulated 5 new primary additions to Marxism-Leninism, being the Mass Line, Protracted People's War, New Democracy, the theory of Cultural Revolution and the theory of the Three Delineated Worlds.

Five Black Categories

The "Five Black Categories" (黑五类) were classifications of political identity and social status in Maoist China. People who were labelled as members of these five groups were discriminated against in almost every aspect of society and were considered enemies of the communist revolution, therefore subject to constant persecution and even massacres.

These five groups are as follows:

• Landlords (地主)
• Rich Farmers (富农)
• Counter-Revolutionaries (反革命)
• Bad Elements (坏分子)
• Rightists (右派)

Usually, the people accused of being in those categories in reality have no affiliation to them, and sometimes even believes in the Maoist ideology and works for the CCP. But the communists didn't care, all they wanted was fear, chaos and killing.

Mass Line

The Mass Line is a theory that states that the masses of peasants and workers must all be in unison ideologically aligned with the Communist Party. Therefore, Communist Party members must go unto the masses and consult their needs and gather information, which will be further relayed to the party. The party then interprets this information within a Socialist framework and applies this in a cultural or economic change.

Struggle Sessions

Struggle sessions (批斗大会), or denunciation rallies or struggle meetings, were violent public spectacles in Maoist China where people accused of being "class enemies" were publicly humiliated, accused, beaten and tortured, sometimes to death, often by people with whom they were close. No one was spared from the possibility of being struggled against, not even Party members and famous revolutionaries. These public rallies were most popular in the mass bloody campaigns immediately before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, and peaked during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

Struggle sessions were usually conducted at the workplace, classrooms and auditoriums, where students were pitted against their teachers, friends and spouses, who were pressured to betray one another, and children were manipulated into exposing their parents, causing a breakdown in interpersonal relationships and social trust. Staging, scripts and agitators were prearranged by the Maoists to incite crowd support.

The Maoists would hang a rope around the victim's neck tied to a giant board, with all the accused "crimes" written on it in big letters. The person's neck would be bent low to the weight of the thing and the persecutors would shout and wave red flags and Mao's little red book around his face. Then the person would be kneeled down, and large crowds of people would raise their fists and shout accusations of misdeeds, such as being a " counter-recolutionary" or a " bad element", even if the victim is a disciple of Mao. Sometimes dunce caps were put on the victim, sometimes they shaved their hair, and then the Maoists would beat the person up brutally, usually resulting in death.

Quotes

“”From great chaos we have returned the country to order, but in seven or eight years, we will need another round.

— Mao Zedong

“”There are still many places where people are intimidated and dare not kill the counter-revolutionaries openly on a large scale.

— Mao Zedong

“”All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.

— Mao Zedong

“”As to how long this war will last, we are not the ones who can decide. It used to depend on Truman, and it will depend on Eisenhower or whoever to become the next US president. It's up to them. What I mean is no matter how long this war is going to last, we'll never yield.

— Mao Zedong

Relationships

同志们 (Comrades)

• Left-Wing Populism - WE WILL WAGE THE PEOPLE'S WAR! If we don't starve them all to death.
• Maoism-Third Worldism - We must liberate those who face the most exploitation! But that would mean liberating the people from me…
• Left-Wing Tridemism - Left-KMT is very based, and is good pawn ally of me. We both respect Sun Yat-Sen. Mao is better though. And Chen Duxiu sucks.
• Marxist Feminism - Women hold up half of the sky!
• Stalinism - You are 70% good and 30% bad. On the one hand, you were a successful revolutionary and a great influence to me and assisted me in the civil war. However the way you collectivized agriculture was idiotic even though my way killed more people.
• Revolutionary Progressivism - BURN DOWN THE OLD WORLD, THOSE WHO GET IN THE WAY, AND CREATE A NEW ONE!! REVOLT MAKES TRUTH AND REVOLUTION MAKES RIGHTEOUS!!! (破旧立新，放眼世界；革命无罪，造反有理！)
• Industrialism - The Great Leap Forward made China a major world power!!!
  • No, the f*ck it didn't.
• Jacobinism - My insipation! But instead of killing monarchs, I convert them to communism.
• State Atheism - Religion is a superstition that is also a remnant of the dirty old ways.
• Shōwa Statism - I pretended to fight you during WWII to tire him out. Thank you for invading China and allowing me to grow my army to win the civil war. Mao even thanked you in public.
• PolPotism - One of my best students. When I said "destroy all the classes", I didn't mean "destroy all the glasses", but hey that works too because those dirty intellectuals deserve to die.
• Kissingerism - We are not so different…

统一战线 (United Front)

• Dengism - I appreciate you continuing my violent tendencies, but your reforms are bourgeoisie. We are incompatible, but we still have to pretend we are to the public. Also most of my modern followers hate you
• Three Represents - Even though you are greedy cronyist, you continued my legacy of destroying morals and religion. Good job on violently persecuting that reactionary cult.
• Xi Jinping Thought - Far from ideal, but is the closest anyone will probably ever get to me.
• LGBT Movement - I used to dislike the gays, but my modern adherents are kinda split on the issue of LGBT rights.
• Pinkieism - Read no books of mine nor knows anything about true Maoism, but still is zealous in worshipping me.
• Western New Left - Dehumanizing people to justify political killings? This might be the only good liberal!

走资派 (Capitalist Roaders)

• Reactionaryism - One of my favorite labels I use on anyone I want dead. And I will destroy all traditional Chinese culture so you have no way of success.
• Conservatism - CULTURAL REVOLUTION! NOW! PUBLICLY BEAT HIM TO DEATH!
• Traditionalism - I WILL WIPE YOU CLEAN OUT OF CHINA!! WITH THE FOUNDATION GONE, I CAN ESTABLISH MYSELF A NEW CHINA!
• Moralism - To rid of the old customs and culture, you must be dropped. Violence without mercy is the way to a new and prosperous China.
• Liberalism - We must combat him! Cast away illusions and prepare for struggle!
• Agrarian Capitalism - Kiss your hard-earned farm goodbye, rich peasant. I'm giving it to all the landless peasants and sending them to kill your bourgeois ass and your family.
• Imperialism - You are the root of all evils! I do the same things you do but on my own people.
• Buddhist Theocracy - My conquest against filthy Tibetan reactionaries and theocrats was absolutely justified and I have no regrets.
• Chinese Theocracy - Bu… but… foot binding!!! Backward women hater!!!! All the killings and destructions against you are justified!!!
  • I got rid of all those things but without all the destruction. It's not that hard.
  • Shut up Chang Kai Shen. You're just jealous that you lost the mainland.
• Christian Theocracy - I'll deport all you damn missionaries and kill your followers!
• Cultural Nationalism - I'm a culture destroyer, and?
• Chiangism - Reactionary, I totally did all the fighting against Japan! And what can I say, I guess people just love me more then you so they joined me against you and totally not because I implemented spies to make dumb decisions for you and bring down your reputation!
• Zhao Ziyang Thought - Even the revisionist Deng was too soft on you!
• Confucianism - Down with these so-called intellectuals! Down with all the intellectuals, as matter of fact!
• Jihadism - FREAKING TERRORIST REACTIONARY! WHY DO YOU EXIST YOU MISOGYNISTIC THEOCRAT?!? We both like public executions, indiscriminately killing and destroying cultural artifacts. In a way, I'm like an atheist version of you…
• Counter-Enlightenment - Hahahahaha! The old world is dead, and is NEVER coming back! My Red Guards will deal with you…
• Avaritionism - Literally a proud capitalist and murderer. I am also the latter. You just earned yourself a trip to the Láogǎi Camp!

How to draw

Flag of Maoism, based on Mao Zedong's flag proposal for the PRC

Maoism has a drawing rating of easy.

1. Draw a ball.
2. Fill it with red.
3. Draw a yellow star at the top left corner.
4. Add Asian eyes and you’re done.

Color Name		HEX
	Red	#DF2507
	Yellow	#FFDF00

Gallery

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  Fight with Chiangism
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  Communism's infobox art

See Also

• Chinese Communist Party
• Mao Zedong Thought
• People's Republic of China