Enver Hoxha, the leader of the Communist Party of Albania, was a staunch critic of Mao Zedong and Maoism. He accused Mao of being a revisionist who had abandoned the true principles of Marxism-Leninism.
Hoxha's specific criticisms of Mao included:
- Mao's emphasis on the peasantry as the leading force in the revolution, which Hoxha saw as a betrayal of the proletariat.
- Mao's support for guerrilla warfare and protracted people's war, which Hoxha saw as outdated and ineffective.
- Mao's cult of personality and his tendency to concentrate power in his own hands.
- Mao's foreign policy, which Hoxha saw as too conciliatory towards the Soviet Union and other revisionist states.
Hoxha also criticized Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which he saw as a chaotic and destructive event that had damaged the Chinese Communist Party and the socialist cause.
Hoxha's criticisms of Mao were widely shared by other Marxist-Leninist parties around the world, and they led to a split between the Albanian and Chinese Communist parties in the early 1970s.
Here are some specific examples of Hoxha's criticisms of Mao:
- In his book Imperialism and the Revolution, Hoxha wrote: "Mao Tsetung thought is not Marxist-Leninist, but a dangerous variant of modern revisionism, against which an all-round struggle on the theoretical and political plane must be waged."
- Hoxha also criticized Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, writing: "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was not a proletarian revolution, but a counter-revolutionary coup d'état carried out by Mao Zedong and his clique."
- Hoxha accused Mao of being a power-hungry dictator who had abandoned the principles of Marxism-Leninism. He wrote: "Mao Zedong is a revisionist who has betrayed the interests of the Chinese people and the international communist movement."
Hoxha's criticisms of Mao were controversial, but they were also influential. His writings helped to shape the thinking of many Marxist-Leninist parties around the world.
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