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Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of MarxismâLeninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China. A difference between Maoism and traditional MarxismâLeninism is that a united front of progressive forces in class society would lead the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than communist revolutionaries alone. This theory, in which revolutionary praxis is primary and ideological orthodoxy is secondary, represents urban MarxismâLeninism adapted to pre-industrial China. Later theoreticians expanded on the idea that Mao had adapted MarxismâLeninism to Chinese conditions, arguing that he had in fact updated it fundamentally and that Maoism could be applied universally throughout the world. This ideology is often referred to as MarxismâLeninismâMaoism to distinguish it from the original ideas of Mao.
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