Mao-spontex
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The term Mao-spontex refers to a syncretic
anti-authoritarian approach to revolution.[4]
Mao-spontex was inspired by both the spontaneous action of the
What Is To Be Done? was especially targeted for criticism since they rejected Lenin's critique of spontaneity.[6] The idea of democratic centralism was supported as a way to organize a party, but only if it stays in constant contact with a mass worker's movement to remain revolutionary.[1] The main party vehicles for Mao-spontex were the French political party Gauche prolétarienne and the group Vive la révolution.[2]
The tendency falls under the wider current of Western Maoism[7][8][9] that existed after the emergence of the New Left.
See also
- Armed Nuclei for Popular Autonomy
- Autonomism
- La Cause du peuple
- Libertarian socialism
- May 1968 events in France
- Murder of Pierre Overney
References
- ^ a b c "Investigation into the Maoists in France". Marxists.org. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Cahiers du cinéma's Maoist Turn and the Front Culturel Révolutionnaire". Zapruder World. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
- JSTOR 466540.
- ISBN 978-0-7735-5246-3.
It did not take long for the GP-ists to become known as 'Mao-spontex', or Maoist-spontaneists. The name was originally an insult—Spontex was the brand name of a cleaning sponge—intended to belittle the group's embrace of anti-authoritarianism as an element of revolutionary contestation. The marxisant tradition had long criticized spontaneism as an anarchistic error.
- ^ "La Ligue Communiste S'en Prend Aux 'Mao Spontex'". Le Monde (in French). 1969-05-21. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ "Why has the ISO collapsed? | Workers' Liberty". www.workersliberty.org. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ISBN 978-1-315-15091-8, retrieved 2023-12-07
- ^ "'Imperialism runs deep': Interview with Robert Biel on British Maoism and its afterlives". Ebb. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- S2CID 209562552, retrieved 2023-12-24
Further reading
- Ulrike Heider, Keine Ruhe nach dem Sturm, Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitausendeins, Hamburg, 2001.