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During Mao Zedong's leadership of Communist China, the country could be described as a country of "actually-existing socialism".
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Mao was a revisionist.
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During Josef Stalin's leadership of the Soviet Union, the country could be described as a country of "actually-existing socialism".
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Stalin was a tyrannical monster, who twisted Marxist principles, and murdered millions of innocent people.
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The Soviet Union was state-capitalist during Stalin's leadership.
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Democracy in the Soviet Union degenerated following Vladimir Lenin's death, so the country could be best described following his death as a "degenerated worker state".
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The Soviet Union was always state-capitalist.
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The theory of Protracted People's War is revolutionary. The foco theory of guerrilla warfare does not apply globally, only in cases of extreme despotism.
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The theory of the mass line is revolutionary.
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Communists in the First World should be placing a higher importance on Second World and Third World revolution.
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National liberation is the only way to smash national oppression. A communist party of the whole nation cannot smash national oppression on its own. The Second World and Third World must have their own vanguard parties to combat the imperialist system.
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Leninism is a perversion of Marxism.
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Revolution can and should occur spontaneously from below, without the aid or authority of a vanguard party.
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Capitalism is now a global system, so it is necessary for proletarian internationalism, or international socialism to take precedence over "socialism in one country". Workers must become a global class to demolish capitalism. A national revolution or "revolution in one country" will only lead to ruin. A revolutionary proletarian international cannot be constructed until a majority of countries have overthrown the capitalist system.
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Workers' councils and student councils are more democratically "healthy" than centralized boards of democratically-elected, trained experts.
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Technocracy, a form of meritocracy, is a socialist idea.
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Western Marxism has made very important theoretical contributions to the world communist movement.
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The Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States, under Bob Avakian, is the true vanguard party of the American working class.
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True socialism has not existed yet.
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Josef Stalin's line is the only revolutionary line. Maoism, although it had its day in Communist China, is a flame long extinguished. Marxism–Leninism remains the only revolutionary science. If you disagree with Maoism or Hoxhaism entirely, select "no preference".
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Maoism is a perversion of Marxism. Hoxha defended true Marxism. If you disagree with Maoism or Hoxhaism entirely, select "no preference".
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Maoism is an advanced stage of Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. Today, the vanguard ideology of the proletariat is a synthesis of Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism: Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. If you disagree with Leninism entirely, select "no preference".
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Hoxha was a dogmatist, and his ideas were nationalist and cold. If you disagree with Maoism and Hoxhaism entirely, select "no preference".
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Hardt's and Negri's ideas of autonomism and globalization (the theory of "Empire", etc.) are valuable contributions to Marxist thought.
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