... Cultural Revolution-era totems are proliferating. In Chongqing, a mega-city of 32 million people in western China, Mao sculptures—which were feverishly demolished soon after the late patriarch Deng Xiaoping catalyzed the reform era in 1978—are being erected throughout government offices, factories and universities. The CCP’s Disturbing Revival of Maoism - The Jamestown Foundation

ARTICLE: Maoist Rebels Widen Deadly Reach Across India, By JIM YARDLEY, New York Times, October 31, 2009 If, as we are told, the whole Pakistani Taliban deal is forcing the nation's military to reorient itself from its historical obsession with India, then maybe the Indian Maoists (Naxalites) will do the same for India. Stunning to consider: if you had come to me in, say, 1980, and ...

... or socio-economic class struggle? While the Indian army chief was happy labelling Maoism as a “socio-economic class struggle”, here is how Ai Ping, the director-general of the ... that advises Beijing on its South and East Asia policies characterised the Maoists. Maoism is nothing but terrorism. The Maoists should never expect any financial, political or military support from China.[Telegraph] ...

... lecture on the very next day. But saturday,we had to go for a guest lecture on Naxalites and Maoism. The subject has always interested me and I did not want to miss it.. We had to do a reading before a lecture. The speaker was Himanshu ... ;The Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act' which can arrest anyone even if a book on Maoism is found in his/her house. The case of Dr. Binayak Sen is one of ...

... 8221; girl of the Narmada anti-dam saga, Himanshu Kumar is fast emerging as the poster boy in the Maoism story. No newspaper, magazine or television article on “the gravest threat to internal security” ... your alphabets? Posted in Issues and Ideas, Media Tagged: Churumuri, Dantewada, Himanshu Kumar, Maoism, Medha Patkar, Sans Serif, Soma Chaudhury, Tarun J. Tejpal, Tehelka, Whyte & ...

... a mad dog brought to the event to provoke a violent incident. What they don't understand is that I'm not speaking out because I idolize Bob Avakian (I don't) or think Maoism is the answer (I don't) or that I think Sunsara Taylor should not be criticized (not at all) — it's because the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago is betraying what ought to be the basic principles ...

... db0 has known for a while that I advocate a role for the state in communism, it's only when he personally has been offended that he slanderously labels my position "Maoism". (He might be drawing an inference from my reporting on and opinions about the controversy between Sunsara Taylor and the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago, but that no more makes me a Maoist than it does PZ ...

... coincidently, I also finished reading Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao by Benjamin I. Schwartz, originally published in 1951. I wish I had read it back in the 1970's when Maoism was more popular in the U.S. (and around the globe). There were a number of interesting points in the book, and strangely they explained many of the scenes depicted in The Sand Pebbles. Certainly China would not ...

... a real competitive market place where the consumers, not the share holders, are truly being served, we need an entity that can overcome corporate greed. The fed can do it. Death Panels, Maoism, Socialized Everything, Hitler, all of that is sound and fury signifying bullshit. The one legitimate argument I’ve heard against the public option is that the quality of health care will suffer. ...

... , much like Gorbachev, had still seen the writing on the wall in regards to the planned economy. In the last thirty years it has been a Communist party which has managed its transition from Maoism to a paragon of modern industrial capitalism. Gorbachev could have taken this road, which had been anticipated by Yuri Andropov, but instead opted to couple economic reform with political freedom. For ...

... at, the person who brought it is looked at. The messenger is worshiped, instead of the message. So there would be Christianity, Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Marxism, Maoism -- everything -- it is always about a person and never about what he says. ONO: All the isms are daddies. It's sad that society is structured in such a way that people cannot really open up to each other, and ...

... Moore to Glenn Beck, add in a healthy dose of Leninism (he was murdered by Stalin's henchmen you might recall from your history lessons) and you have a fair idea of what Ms Taylor is saying. Maoism? Hmm. Not so much. Oh, the words are there, but the sentiment, the conviction? It's on a long vacation. Here's the basic thing of communism: You have, I want. Here's the basic thing of ...

... 1970s and 1980s, it was a People's Republic of China-supported Maoist party, but in 1991 the SP dropped its communist course, and chose a more independent and less radical socialist course, denouncing Maoism and China." Ms. Langkamp is the most vocal critic of the Chinese adoption program. Standing in contrast to her in many instances is Fred Teeven of the "People's Party for ...

... Mehnert reported in Moscow and the New Left a high level of Soviet interest in Herbert Marcuse, where writers accused Marcuse of making youth and the intelligentsia receptive to Trotskyism and Maoism.) In a paper written for Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno in California in 1947, Marcuse "argued the case for a Soviet Republic and welcomed anarchy, disintegration and catastrophe as the ...

... to chuck their lives in the cause of bringing communism to their countries; of a time when Fidel Castro was considered a hero among the leftists; when terms like Maoism were not just words that were bandied about, but actually an ideology that was taken seriously and which promised to change the world. I loved 70s swinging London when AIDS first makes its scary appearance, and his descriptions ...