Message from @Apollo'sJest
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@Apollo'sJest yes, there are people like that however they might not be so keen on sharing your interpretation of their ideology
If no - they not Maoist fam
@Cotton In that case they are just idiots that larp as some ideal of a romanticised revolutionary rather than a real thing.
the real thing*
The fact that someone proudly proclaims themselves to be Napoleon Bonaparte does not mean that they ARE the (in)famous Emperor of the French
Is that so, are you gonna call the Maoist revolution a hoax? That people like that didn't exist?
They DID exist
Yep
and, thank God, they don't really any more
And ideas don't die within a generation, this is literally what it means to be an ideology
Oh sure
but they are irrelevant in terms of influence
As u mentionned the people that might identify as Maoist
See, the most retarded ideology in the history so called national socialism still have supporters up to this day
Don't even think you should kill people that know traditional archery techniques on sight
They are not Maoists
They just leared a "cool" word and want to be it
learned*
That doesn't make them any less maoists or any less "x"ist
They might be weak in practice
If I am a practicing Catholic
it does not matter how much I believe that I am actually a Shia Muslim
And how much I proclaim it to the world
I'm not one
Not in any true sense
Otherwise proper nouns loose all meaning
Alright so I can't identify myself freely, if I'm not going to fight for it or shoot people in regards to my ideology?
You are free to call yourself a giraffe. It simply won't make you one - you will be wrong. Modern colleage campus "Maoists" are free to call themselves that but they are wrong. Maoism REQUIRES you to shoot people that stand in the way of the revolution. There is no such thing as moderate Maoism. Not to mention Chinese Communism was always distinctly Nationalistic as it was seen as a tool to overthrow the Western de facto colonisers first and foremost. Modern US "Maoists" have no coloniser to fight against - even if they wanted to be Maoist AND started killing they still wouldn't be true Maoists. They'd be simmilar but not quite there still...
Not to mention modern Western Communists believe in a ridiculously romanticised version of Communism that simply does not compare to the real thing in action
They are useful indoctrinated idiots
(for the most part)
They are tools of the ideology
Not actual ideologues
Somewhat somilarily to your average Russian peasant in the 1920s
They are not communists
they are simply being used by Communists for their Communist goals
You're confusing the means and actions taken by any community to proclaim their goals and their actual belief
If I say that I am an "x"ist, it's not because I want a massacre in the name of x, it's because I think x is the ideal form of a society
How we reach there is irrelevant
See, most of the commies you will see online, except from the edgy teens who make "1 mil years of gulag ehehe" jokes constantly believe education will bring communism, this means they don't want to repeat the bloodbath that happened with soviets