Adventurism in the German Left
In my last entry, I criticized the stubbornly persistent petty-bourgeois mindset of First World communists. Today I turn to a special, (relatively) fast-growing movement in the imperialist heartland, the so-called "Principally Maoism", mainly represented by the Norwegian "Tjen Folket" and its German and Canadian offshoots. Now, when they say "Principally Maoism", they are really only saying that they want to emphasize Maoism as the third stage of development of Marxism. They call their actual "Maoism" "Maoism Gonzalo-Thought" or "Maoism Principally Gonzalo-Thought" respectively, although there is still a big argument about this point (yes, very proletarian to argue about naming, surely the Bolsheviks also spent an eternity on this; for the sake of simpleness I will just refer to them as M-GT which is the abbreviation for "Maoism Gonzalo-Thought). In "Maoism Gonzalo-Thought there are two main aspects, broadly speaking...