Maoism on the 12 Axes

Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist Party to victory in 1949 after two decades of rural guerrilla war. He argued that in agrarian, colonized countries the peasants, not only factory workers, are the main revolutionary force, and that power is won by surrounding the cities from the countryside. In government he stressed the mass line (gathering ideas from the people and returning them as policy), self-reliance, and the idea that class struggle continues under socialism, which led to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Maoist movements later appeared in Peru, Nepal, India and the Philippines. Compared with Stalinism, Maoism puts more weight on rural life and on campaigns against old customs. Compared with Leninism, it is more focused on armed struggle and national self-reliance.

• Leninism 78%Leninism is the theory and practice of Vladimir Lenin: a disciplined vanguard party leads a revolution, takes state power and builds socialism through a dictatorship of the proletariat.
• Stalinism 77%Stalinism is the system of rule associated with Joseph Stalin: socialism in one country, rapid state-led industrialization, collectivized agriculture and total political control by one leader and party.
• State Socialism 71%State socialism holds that the government should own the main industries and plan the economy, using a strong central state as the main tool for reaching social equality.
• State Capitalism 64%State capitalism is an economic system in which the state owns or controls major companies and directs markets toward national goals, often under a single-party or strongly centralized government.