Maoism facts for kids

Tiananmen Square with a portrait of Mao Zedong

Maoism is a set of ideas about how a country should be run. It was developed by a Chinese leader named Mao Zedong. It's a type of communism, which is a way of organizing society where everyone is supposed to be equal and the government controls most things.

Mao Zedong believed that farmers, called peasants, should lead a big change in government. This was different from other communist ideas that focused on factory workers. China started following Maoism when Mao became its leader in 1949.

This way of thinking made China different from other communist countries like the USSR and Cuba. After Mao died in 1976, China's ideas changed. Today, China's economy uses many ideas from capitalism, which is about free markets and businesses. But some people still call China a communist country.

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• Chinese Civil War

Images for kids

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  Strategic Issues of Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War (1938)

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  Strategic Issues in the Chinese Revolutionary War (1947)

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  Beijing, 1978. The billboard reads, "Long Live Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought!"

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  Mao Zedong

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  Deng Xiaoping

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  Maoist leader Prachanda speaking at a rally in Pokhara, Nepal

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  The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) in February 2013

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  Mao Zedong meets Richard Nixon on February 21, 1972, leading to a radical turn of events in which Nixon took steps to placate tensions between the People's Republic of China and the United States, beginning the slow process of reestablishing diplomatic relations between the two global powers

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In Spanish: Maoísmo para niños