The term Mao-spontex refers to a political movement in the Marxist and libertarian movements in Western Europe from 1960 to 1970. The neologism is composed of "Maoist" and "spontaneist".[1] The complete and accurate writing of this term would be Mao-spontaneity.

Mao-spontex came to represent an ideology promoting the ideas of Maoism, along with some ideas from Marxism, and Leninism, but rejecting the total idea of Marxism-Leninism.[2] Lenin's work What Is To Be Done? especially is criticized as dated and Lenin's critique of spontaneity is rejected.[3] Lenin's idea of democratic centralism is supported as a way to organize a party, but a party must also have constant conflict inside of it to remain revolutionary. The revolutionary party discussed must also always be from a mass worker's movement.[4]

Mao-spontex comes under the general current of Western Maoism[5][6][7] that existed after the emergence of the New Left.

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References

  1. ↑ Fields, Belden (1984). "French Maoism". Social Text (9/10): 148–177. doi:10.2307/466540. ISSN 0164-2472. JSTOR 466540.
  2. ↑ "LA LIGUE COMMUNISTE S'EN PREND AUX "MAO SPONTEX"". Le Monde.fr (in French). 1969-05-21. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  3. ↑ "Why has the ISO collapsed? | Workers' Liberty". www.workersliberty.org. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  4. ↑ "Investigation into the Maoists in France". Marxists.org. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  5. ↑ Slobodian, Quinn (2018), "The meanings of Western Maoism in the global 1960s", The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties, Routledge, pp. 67–78, doi:10.4324/9781315150918-7, ISBN 978-1-315-15091-8, retrieved 2023-12-07
  6. ↑ "'Imperialism runs deep': Interview with Robert Biel on British Maoism and its afterlives". Ebb. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  7. ↑ Graber, Lauren; Spaulding, Daniel (2019-11-18), Galimberti, Jacopo; de Haro García, Noemi; Scott, Victoria H. F. (eds.), "The Red Flag: The art and politics of West German Maoism", Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Manchester University Press, doi:10.7765/9781526117472.00011, ISBN 978-1-5261-1747-2, S2CID 209562552, retrieved 2023-12-24

Further reading

  • Ulrike Heider, Keine Ruhe nach dem Sturm, Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitausendeins, Hamburg, 2001.
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