the impression I have of mao is that he was just a marxist, but applied stuff according to the individual issues within china

and added more tyranny

is this even remotely correct?

Generally speaking Marxism Leninism is viewed as a very serious deviation from Marxism for several reasons

Today I learned there's a deep divide between pro-catgirl commies and anti-catgirl commies.

Maoism essentially continued these

It's why "that's not socialism" is something you will hear from us commonly

Because that person is arguing from a praxis/theory standpoint

For a comparison

are you suggesting maoism is derivated from a marxist base but is by definition not marxism

or is not by definition socialism

either way

It's like a liberal society that has severely abridged private property rights and no freedom of speech level of praxis violation

what's a praxis violation?

Praxis is the "how do we do it or accomplish it" of an ideology

It's often central to an ideology

as a matter of fact that does sound quite fine

ideologically

the issues I had with the very word mao are pretty much related to the actual policies that were enforced an enacted in china during that era

including certain limits on freedom of speech

Liberal praxis would be constitutional rights

Back

Or common liberal praxis

I.e to uphold natural, positive and negative human rights

Which are key to liberal philosophy

:thonking:

I'm an ex libertarian by the way

I used to religiously back constitutional praxis

Still do like it

Actually

It stands the test of time

*gets jelly over American gun Rights*

I'd describe myself as a center-left egalitarian individualist

there are two sections in this statement

center-left:
I think the cetrain values that socialism et al promote at least on an ideological level are _good_ (as in "ethical"), but I do also value freedom greatly. thus social democracy / a heavily regulated free market is the ideal compromise between these two values (in addition to what can reasonably implemented in practice, and what can not)

egalitarian individualist:
certain theological and philosophical though processes have simply led me to the conclusion that this is the natural state of all existence, and the way we should perceive the uninverse

to me this is more than a mere belief (even though I am technically an agnostic theist)

(and I don't support any one chosen religion or even the existence of organized religion in general)

>social democracy

You 2 look like people about to make sex

Well you have proven to be more politically literate then most