How Maoism Destroyed Communism

Many people still think that Maoism and Marxism constitute more or less the same ideological concept and have a lot in common. Allegedly, they both stand for “Communism” — or the failure of Communism, and are both some sort of totalitarian system with no respect for human rights and basic freedoms. The texts, documents and analyses presented in this book disprove these assumptions. Maoism essentially destroyed Communism. This collection may give some valuable insights into how this could happen.

Maoism converted Marxism into totalitarianism and a system of slavery, supervision, “gleichschaltung”, and has created in China an all-powerful state serving the interests of a corrupt elite and not those of the working people and the poor. In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Marxism was similarly sabotaged, undermined, and corrupted, however not by Maoism but by “reform communism” and Khrushchevism (which is a similar concept) developed to subvert and destroy Marxism) and genuine socialism in the name of “modernizing” or “further developing” it. 

The Communist Party of China was destroyed by a group of nationalists and chauvinists who did not even know Marxism properly, who abused Marxism for their own purposes, later leading to a Chinese state where the bourgeoisie was still in power.

The private-public partnership concept (PPP) was created in the mid-1950s by Mao Zedong and his theoreticians, creating not a socialist state but a corporate state, a coalition of big corporations and billionaires on the one hand and a pseudo-Communist elite on the other — a reactionary model now eagerly copied in the West. And the Chinese leaders still call it “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”.

Today we experience that a new tyranny is emerging: a state that tramples on our basic democratic rights in the interest of big corporations and self-serving billionaire oligarchs. They are the ones who have hijacked the state, and they are now turning it into a mere tool for their permanent enrichment, plundering its coffers and stealing the taxpayers’/consumers' money. And the greatest theoretical and coherent system of liberation, Marxism, is no longer there to stop them.