Maoism

Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China. A difference between Maoism and traditional Marxism–Leninism is that a united front of progressive forces in class society would lead the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than communist revolutionaries alone. This theory, in which revolutionary praxis is primary and ideological orthodoxy is secondary, represents urban Marxism–Leninism adapted to pre-industrial China.

Extends: Maoism, [Maoist terminology](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Maoist terminology), [1950s in China](https://wikipedia.org.ai/1950s in China), [1960s in China](https://wikipedia.org.ai/1960s in China), [1970s in China](https://wikipedia.org.ai/1970s in China)