It’s tough to explain MZT as well as others here already have, just wanted to add that Maoists online are some of the dumbest, weirdest, rudest bunch that the modern left has to offer. Imagine someone who doesn’t support Che Guevara and call him Adventurist because he traveled to another country to help their Revolution. That same person will label others as “Armchair Revolutionaries” for not risking life and limb every second of the day to support Revolution. And what do they do? They work for a non-union company, don’t agitate or try to unionize or even bring up conversations to coworkers because they would rather Mald in their own realm of disappointment in the American working class and think themselves superior and smarter rather than godforbid talk to someone IRL. I mean at LEAST Trotskyists will try to get you to read their newspaper, asking a Maoist a question will earn you a 4 minute tirade on how you know nothing and how they don’t even wanna answer such a simple question. I have had LOTS of experience with Maoists online, there are also many kind ones who sorta take a dogmatic approach. Overall Maoism is just dumb enough for me to not add the second M to ML, but good enough for me to engage with in a decent manner at times.
It’s tough to explain MZT as well as others here already have, just wanted to add that Maoists online are some of the dumbest, weirdest, rudest bunch that the modern left has to offer. Imagine someone who doesn’t support Che Guevara and call him Adventurist because he traveled to another country to help their Revolution. That same person will label others as “Armchair Revolutionaries” for not risking life and limb every second of the day to support Revolution. And what do they do? They work for a non-union company, don’t agitate or try to unionize or even bring up conversations to coworkers because they would rather Mald in their own realm of disappointment in the American working class and think themselves superior and smarter rather than godforbid talk to someone IRL. I mean at LEAST Trotskyists will try to get you to read their newspaper, asking a Maoist a question will earn you a 4 minute tirade on how you know nothing and how they don’t even wanna answer such a simple question. I have had LOTS of experience with Maoists online, there are also many kind ones who sorta take a dogmatic approach. Overall Maoism is just dumb enough for me to not add the second M to ML, but good enough for me to engage with in a decent manner at times.