“What then, is "Western Maoism"--whitch captured a number of the European Left in the 1960s and 1970s--in light of the clarification outlined here? It is a curious amalgam of various bits and pieces of Mao's thought, from Mao Zedong Thought and the Maoism of the Cultural Revolution, and then reframed in terms of utopian tendencies inherent in Western Marxism.” UtopianismAdventurismBook WorshipRevolutionary DefeatismUltra LeftismWestern Marxism Author:Roland Theodore Boer