Maoism: A Global History Audiobook (Free)

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For many years, the West has dismissed Maoism as an out-of-date historical and politics phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China appears to have empty the utopian turmoil of Mao’s about Maoism: A Global History revolution towards authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his suggestions remain central towards the People’s Republic as well as the legitimacy of its Communist government. With disagreements and conflicts between China as well as the West on the rise, the necessity to understand the political legacy of Mao is normally urgent and growing.

The energy and selling point of Maoism have extended far beyond China. Maoism was an essential motor from the Cool Battle: it shaped the course of the Vietnam Battle (as well as the worldwide youth rebellions that conflict brought about) and brought to power the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided, and sometimes handed triumph to, anti-colonial level of resistance movements in Africa; it motivated terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, a few of which are still with us today – more than forty years following the loss of life of Mao.

Within this new history, Julia Lovell re-evaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and a global force, linking its evolution in China using its global legacy. It really is a story that takes us through the tea plantations of north India towards the sierras from the Andes, from Paris’s fifth arrondissement towards the fields of Tanzania, through the rice 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, that is a landmark history of global Maoism.