Maoism, Cultural Revolution and the 60s

Maoism, Cultural Revolution and the 60s

What did Maoism have to do with the radicalism of the 1960s? The influence of Maoism on the global radical movements of the 1960s and 70s was enormous. But as Maoist ideas travelled beyond China, they were translated, transformed and sometimes turned against themselves, producing a hundred different “Maoisms”, and sometimes something that was no longer Maoism at all. The reality of Maoist China