Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial
time to understand Maosim.
Although to Western eyes it seems that China has long abandoned the
utopian turmoil of Maoism in favour of authoritarian capitalism, Mao and his
ideas remain central to the People’ Republic and the legitimacy of its
communist government. As disagreements and conflicts between China and the West
are likely to mount, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao will
only become more urgent.
Yet during Mao’s lifetime and beyond, the power and appeal of
Maoism has always extended beyond China. Across the globe, Maoism was a crucial
motor of the Cold War: it shaped the course of the Vietnam War (and the
international youth rebellion it triggered) and brought to power the murderous
Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided, and sometimes handed victory to, anti-colonial
resistance movements in Africa; it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and
wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, some of which are still with us
today – more than forty years after the death of Mao.
In this new history, acclaimed historian Julia Lovell re-evaluates
Maoism, analysing both China’s engagement with the movement and its legacy on a
global canvas. It’s a story that takes us from the tea plantations of north
India to the sierras of the Andes, from Paris’s 5th Arrondissement to the
fields of Tanzania, from the rice paddies of Cambodia to the terraces of
Brixton.
Starting from the movement’s birth in northwest China in the 1930s
and unfolding right up to its present-day violent rebirth, this is the
definitive history of global Maoism. (less)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40554093-maoism
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