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Some Notes Before Reading
This is a collection of sources or observations I made during my interaction with Maoists. This will be split in two parts.
The first will be Observation, where I look at Maoists and see how they act. This may be the weakest one, as not all maoists do not represent the observations I made. It may also be biased considering most of my interactions are from twitter mostly. I will be considering the so-called 'internet maoists' or MLMpM maoists. I'm not considering the 'maoists' who support modern socialist nations (I don't think they are maoists anyways). The distinction between other maoists can be blurry, and that will be introduced in the future in my upcoming essay.
The second will be Sources, of which it will be divided into two parts. Trustworthy and Mixed. Trustworthy sources are sources which are valid and can be used without backlash, typically socialist and marxist-leninist sources, or sources of indisputable fact. Mixed sources are sources which will need more time of consideration, especially if it comes from a bourgeois or revisionist source. All bourgeois state media sources (regardless of origin) will be put in there as well.
All of this is in preparation of my second edition to the Problems with Maoism essay, which if you want to read, click the name of the essay.
Observation
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:
Misuse of the term Fascism
This is also noted in the CPI (Marxist) heading. List of occurrences:
- https://lemmygrad.ml/post/483712 (Will find the original source later)
- https://lemmygrad.ml/post/508770 (Probably not maoist considering he also thinks Yugoslavia is ML, stated in the link)
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:
- Gonzalo has become immortal!
- https://twitter.com/GonzaloPosting/status/1487092235577569280
- Line of Construction of the Three Instruments of Revolution
Sources
Trustworthy
CPI (Marxist) Sources
Miscellaneous
Mixed
Miscellaneous
- BadEmpanada's video on the Shining Path (Uses state media sources but still invaluable)