Can /leftypol/ explain to me why Maoism was so popular among

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>Can /leftypol/ explain to me why Maoism was so popular among communists living in the West?
I doubt they could but you can still go and ask them over at >>>/pol/

This is /his/, friend.

>>1870694
It is? Maoism is more of a 3rd world ideology

>>1870694
It's because simply saying you're communist means you only care about "the international struggle", but Maoism implies that, unlike regular communists, you care about Africa and South America.

Basically, they want to be communist and be cucked by black people instead of one or the other.

>>1870716
Unfortunately, /his/ is pretty much /leftypol/ nowadays.

>When the Communist party emerged victorious from China’s brief civil war in 1949, it, too, found itself obliged to take up the mantle of managing China’s rivers.In an irrigation campaign in the Yellow river between 1957 and 1959, the party increased the rate of extraction from the river by an astonishing 83 times, while succeeding in reducing the crop yield.

>By the time Mao had finished, 80,000 dams had been built, many by peasants equipped with little more than the all-conquering thoughts of the Chairman. More than 500 of them collapsed in 1973 alone and by 1980, 3,000 had given way. It was in 1975, the year before Mao’s death, that China suffered the most catastrophic dam collapse in history, when Typhoon Nina caused the Banqiao dam in Henan to give way, releasing 700m cubic metres of water that travelled at some 40 miles an hour, devastating everything in its path. Nearly a quarter of a million people are estimated to have died in the inundation and its long aftermath of disease and exposure. The catastrophe was kept a closely guarded secret for more than 30 years and the officials in charge were promoted.

>>1870694
The soviet union had acquired a bad name so it was the next obvious choice.

Also Maoism got mainstream in the west in the mid 60s, mostly among edgy people. It was at least subconsciously mixed with, if not anti-white yet, at least an anti-western message. Decolonization had largely just happened. I think that's one of the main reason.

>DUDE
>Let's plant the seeds 6 feet underground
>So they have to struggle to grow strong
>Like the struggle of the proletariat!
>This will surely increase crop yields!
>LMAO

>>1870887
Fuck you comrade, it seemed a revolutionary idea at the time.

>>1870694
Anti colonialism and the Soviets were the "bad guys"

Maoism is also based on part on Third-Worldism which attracts people to its ideal s

Marxism is best

>>1870851
Have you seen the battlefield 1 thread's or are you just new?

>>1870908
>>1871154
This. After communists and leftist intellectuals stopped idolizing Stalin and the Soviet Union sometime when even the Soviets themselves were repudiating him as a brutal thug in the late 50s, they needed a new idol, so they got caught up in the anti-colonial, guerrilla fighter against capitalism rhetoric of Mao and Che Guevara. Guerrilla chic became a thing in the late 60s.