Maoism

Stick to Karl Marx’s true path, Xi Jinping tells China’s communists in speech to mark 200th birthday of ‘greatest thinker of modern times’

Chinese Marxist Philosophy

Chinese Marxist Philosophy Chinese Marxist Philosophy is the philosophy of dialectical materialism that was introduced into China in the early 1900s and continues in the Chinese academia to the current day. Marxist philosophy was initially imported into China between 1900 and 1930, in translations from German, Russian and Japanese. The Chinese translator of...

Maoism

Maoism

What Is Maoism? Maoism, or Mao Zedong Thought (毛泽东思想; Máo Zédōng sīxiǎng), is the Chinese communist variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed for realising a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the People’s Republic of China. From the 1950s until the Chinese economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the late...

Marx and Lenin

Communism

What Is Communism? In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, “common, universal”) is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the...