English word senses marked with topical category "Maoism"

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Total 16 word senses

• Cultural Revolution (Proper name) The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the Communist China.
• Great Leap Forward (Proper name) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).
• Maoism (Noun) The philosophy espoused by Chinese leader Mao Zedong, a form of Marxism-Leninism that focuses on the peasantry as the revolutionary vanguard.
• Maoist (Noun) one who advocates Maoism
• Maoistic (Adjective) Maoist
• Maoize (Verb) To cause to conform to the ideology of Mao Zedong and his Cultural Revolution.
• Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (Proper name) A communist ideological stream which seeks to synthesize Marxism-Leninism and Maoism and which proponents believe is the highest stage of Marxism. It was systematized by the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) and developed by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and its adherent parties.
• SLA (Noun) Initialism of Symbionese Liberation Army.
• capitalist roader (Noun) One (especially a Chinese Communist Party official) who bows to pressure from bourgeois forces and attempts to pull the Cultural Revolution in a capitalist direction.
• capitalist roadism (Noun) The ideology of a capitalist roader: one (especially a Chinese Communist Party official) who bows to pressure from bourgeois forces and attempts to pull the Cultural Revolution in a capitalist direction.
• hongweibing (Noun) red guards, a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution.
• neo-Maoist (Noun) A person who believes in a (post-reform and opening-up) version of Maoist ideology.
• people's war (Noun) A Maoist military strategy where the basic concept is to maintain the support of the population and draw the enemy deep into the countryside where the population will bleed them dry through a mix of mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare.
• red guard (Noun) A member of any of several organizations known as Red Guards or Red Guard.
• struggle session (Noun) A form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.
• three togethers (Noun) A policy stating that peasants should eat together, live together, and labour together.

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