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Book SynopsisThe Emergence of Global Maoism examines the spread of Mao Zedong''s writings, ideology, and institutions when they traveled outside of China. Matthew Galway links Chinese Communist Party efforts to globalize Maoism to the dialectical engagement of exported Maoism by Cambodian Maoist intellectuals.
How do ideas manifest outside of their place of origin? Galway analyzes how universal ideological systems became localized, both in Mao''s indigenization of Marxism-Leninism and in the Communist Party of Kampuchea''s indigenization of Maoism into its own revolutionary ideology. By examining the intellectual journeys of CPK leaders who, during their studies in Paris in the 1950s, became progressive activist-intellectuals and full-fledged Communists, he shows that they responded to political and socioeconomic crises by speaking back to Maoismadapting it through practice, without abandoning its universality. Among Mao''s greatest achievements, the Sinification of Ma
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[The Emergence of Global Maoism] overcomes some of those challenges to shed new empirical and theoretical light on how revolutionary thought "travelled."
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Discovering Truth through Practice: Mao Zedong Thought Conceived and Implemented, 1927–1965
2. Transmitting Maoism: Mao's Global Revolution, 1965–1975
3. The Origins of Cambodia's Maoist Vision: Revolutionary Intellectuals and Maoism, 1949–1955
4. Integrating Truth with Concrete Practice: Intellectual Adaptations of Maoism, 1955–1965
5. Like Desiccated Straw in the Ricefields: Practical and Normative Adaptations of Maoism, 1966–1975
6. "We Must Combine Theory and Practice": The Implementation of Cambodia's Maoist Vision, 1975–1979
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