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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Maoism ultimately boils down to a few key principles.
Chapter 3: Red Star Over China became a global bestseller and profoundly shaped worldwide perceptions of Mao and Maoism across diverse audiences for decades and beyond.
Chapter 4: Rivalry between China and the USSR justified Mao’s ever more radical domestic policies and expansive overseas investment programs.
Chapter 5: Mao’s rhetoric spurred Indonesia’s Communists to confront the army, giving the military a ready pretext for brutal retaliation afterward.
Chapter 6: China’s push across Africa didn’t export Maoist-style politics, but it delivered one victory for Beijing in the end.
Chapter 7: China’s backing across Southeast Asia was pivotal in the region’s horrific conflicts during the 1960s and the ’70s.
Chapter 8: Across the West, Maoism has shaped a broad array of groups and individuals.
Chapter 9: Shining Path began as a peasant uprising. Yet peasants ultimately suffered the very worst of its horrific violence.
Chapter 10: In India, Maoism shows that rural communities nearly always suffer the most from Maoist insurgency.
Chapter 11: With Xi Jinping, China has its most Maoist leader yet since the chairman.
Description
Maoism (2019) is a deep dive into Maoist ideology, tracing the origins of the movement in the caves of northwest China to the jungles of India, the high Andean sierra, and the California city parks where The Black Panthers did their military drills. Maoism is a movement that’s hardly limited to China or even Asia.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone looking to bone up on Chinese history
- Followers of leftist politics
- Those interested in transnational historical arcs