Social:Mao-spontex

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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.

See also

  • Armed Nuclei for Popular Autonomy
  • Autonomism
  • Gauche prolétarienne
  • La Cause du peuple
  • Libertarian socialism
  • May 1968 events in France
  • Murder of Pierre Overney

References

  1. Fields, Belden (1984). "French Maoism". Social Text (9/10): 148–177. doi:10.2307/466540. ISSN 0164-2472. https://www.jstor.org/stable/466540. 
  2. "LA LIGUE COMMUNISTE S'EN PREND AUX "MAO SPONTEX"" (in fr). Le Monde.fr. 1969-05-21. https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1969/05/21/la-ligue-communiste-s-en-prend-aux-mao-spontex_2424848_1819218.html. 
  3. "Why has the ISO collapsed? | Workers' Liberty" (in en). https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-04-16/why-has-iso-collapsed. 
  4. "Investigation into the Maoists in France". Marxists.org. https://www.marxists.org/archive/levy-benny/1971/investigation.htm. 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, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315150918-7/meanings-western-maoism-global-1960s-quinn-slobodian, retrieved 2023-12-07 
  6. "'Imperialism runs deep': Interview with Robert Biel on British Maoism and its afterlives" (in en-GB). https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/imperialism-runs-deep-interview-with-robert-biel-on-british-maoism-and-its-afterlives. 
  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, https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526117472/9781526117472.00011.xml, retrieved 2023-12-24 

Further reading

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

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