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One Maoist I used to talk with supported the Khmer Rouge and refused to explain why. Also, is there a habit with Maoists calling people or countries fascist at a much higher rate than Marxist-Leninists? I think I remember the program for the Peruvian Maoists or whatever calling the Soviet Union fascist (...what?).
I would be veering into armchair psychology trying to decipher maoists lol. but I remember one thing the Shining Path did was hang dead dogs from lam posts in Lima when Deng was elected... in China. Gives you an idea of who they are.
Doesn't help that there's also maoism, marxism-leninism-maoism, and marxism-leninism-maoism principally maoism (that last one is what gonzalo claimed iirc). maoism also existed in china as what we call mao zedong thought, note that the CPC is not claiming maoism anymore (i.e. MZT) but is officially following socialism with chinese characteristics.
I'm lucky enough that I don't know any maoists irl (conversely I know of at least one hoxhaist in my old party), for my safety I would never want to be around anyone calling themselves MLM. Not even as a sectarian thing just literally would not trust these people whatsoever.
Me neither. I am not sure what would happen if I met a Maoist in real life (I might explode from the awkwardness lol).
I haven't met a Trotskyist, Maoist or Hoxhaist ever, not that they would necessary identify themselves as that. But I have met plenty of "anarchists", mostly punks with no clear ideology, they were nice and kind, probably because they didn't have a clear ideology of anarchism lol.
Maoists are probably the least outwardly weird... until you get to know them, and then their weirdness comes out (like being weirdly fond of Gonzalo).