Maoists appealing to the 'all or nothing' fallacy
Maoists typically despise electoralism, which is valid. However, the maoists also despise communists participating in elections
despite it being reasonably valid and the bolsheviks did run an election in 1917. List of occurrences:
* https://twitter.com/HoChiMeme1/status/1625165495178612737
* https://twitter.com/general_falcone/status/1541197421388218368
Apples to Oranges Comparison
Many maoists compare the atrocities of the Shining Path to either the Tombov rebellion or some atrocities by the North Vietnamese. List of occurrences:
* https://twitter.com/5HAW4RMA/status/1623314120970850304?t=esNtFsOIWHvt1DkK04Bfmw&s=19
Another example is attempting to compare socialist states to capitalist ones, just because both done similar actions do not mean they are the same. List of occurrences:
* https://twitter.com/Republican_Eire/status/1625900906263851013
Misuse of the term Fascism
This is also noted in the [[#CPI (Marxist) Sources|CPI (Marxist)]] heading. List of occurrences:
* https://twitter.com/WhiteMaoTseTung/status/1612946845205929984
* '''X''' <s>https://lemmygrad.ml/post/508770</s> (Is now apparently a 'Maoist-Titoite', may be retracted later)
Cultish behaviour of the Maoists
We can cite multiple examples for this, and the funniest one I found the first one because it screams 'graphic design is my passion'. List of occurrences:
* [https://www.tkpml.com/tkp-ml-central-committee-comrade-gonzalo-has-become-immortal/ Gonzalo has become immortal!]
* https://twitter.com/GonzaloPosting/status/1487092235577569280
* [https://gplpcp.wordpress.com/line-of-construction-of-the-three-instruments-of-the-revolution/ Line of Construction of the Three Instruments of Revolution]
Interestingly enough, a person on twitter compared the Maoist group to the Mormons, since the person in question was a Mormon. This should be taken with a critical viewpoint for now: '''C''' https://twitter.com/ProletariatRis1/status/1604550217218478082
As a slight tangent, revisionist parties such as the Socialist Party of Great Britain also utter the same argument as the Maoists, claiming that because China has billionaires, it is ''clearly'' state capitalist: https://twitter.com/OfficialSPGB/status/1630553749453438976
There can be parallels drawn between Anarchists, Trotskyists and Maoists, however that deserves a whole another chapter on its own.
Maoists uphold exporting revolution
Maoists typically uphold the export of revolution as a means to enhance 'proletarian internationalism', even though Stalin despises this calling the export of revolution 'nonsense'.
Maoists upholding Pol Pot
Maoists typically uphold Pol Pot, because Mao supported it against the Sino-Soviet Split. Maoists can go so far as to suggest that the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, and the establishment of the People's Republic of Kampuchea, is social-imperialist, and that Vietnam was actively controlling the PRK.
Maoists typically use 'one-off' lines as legitimate basis for theory
This is easily seen by looking at [[Social-imperialism|social-imperialism]]. I won't delve into it deeply, so look at the social-imperialism article. There's also this [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1849/05/19c.htm one], which is basically the 1849 equivalent of the guillotine meme. List of occurrences:
* '''X''' <s>https://twitter.com/HighestZero/status/1625508295380242434</s> (Not a maoist)
Notes on Theory Written by Maoist Writers
Collected Works of the Shining Path, Volume 1
'''Page 13''': Mariategui characterises Peru as 'Semi-Feudal'. While at the time this may be correct, and Gonzalo views this as correct (note that the time period can be before 1930, at the time of Mariategui's death), the document about Mariategui was written in 1968, over 3 decades since Mariategui probably made the distinction (the date of statement is not included). The material conditions may not have the same in comparison to back then.
'''Page 24''': 'Data is a bourgeois concept' -Abimael Guzman, 1968
