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For many years, the West has dismissed Maoism as an obsolete historical and politics phenomenon. Because the 1980s, China seems to have empty the utopian turmoil of Mao’s about Maoism: A WORLDWIDE History revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his concepts remain central to the People’s Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist federal government. With disagreements and conflicts between China and the West increasing, the necessity to understand the politics legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.

The power and selling point of Maoism have extended far beyond China. Maoism was an essential motor from the Cold War: it shaped the course of the Vietnam Battle (and the worldwide youngsters rebellions that conflict induced) and brought to power the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided, and sometimes handed triumph to, anti-colonial resistance actions in Africa; it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, some of which remain with us today – a lot more than forty years following the death of Mao.

Within this new history, Julia Lovell re-evaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and a global force, linking its evolution in China with its global legacy. It is a tale that takes us from the tea plantations of north India to the sierras from the Andes, from Paris’s fifth arrondissement towards the areas of Tanzania, from the grain paddies of Cambodia to the terraces of Brixton.

You start with the delivery of Mao’s revolution in northwest China in the 1930s and concluding using its violent afterlives in South Asia and resurgence in the People’s Republic today, this is a landmark history of global Maoism.