Abstract

URREGO, MIGUEL ÁNGEL. History of Maoism in Latin America: Between the Armed Struggle and Serving the People. Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2017, vol.44, n.2, pp.111-135. ISSN 0120-2456.  https://doi.org/10.15446/achsc.v44n2.64017.

The objective of this article is to present a synthesis of the history of Maoism in Latin America. To that effect, it discusses the political particularities of Maoism, the impact of the Cold War, the schism in international communism, and the type of relations established between China and Latin America. Likewise, it considers the paths followed for the creation of the organizations, the hegemony of the extreme leftist version of Maoism in the 1980s, and the existence of a Maoist ethics expressed in the principle of serving the people. Finally, the article presents a reflection on Maoism in the period of neoliberal globalization. Only those parties with mass organizations, national presence, or a long existence were considered for the article

Keywords : (Author) Cold War; Maoism; revisionism; (Thesaurus) China; guerrilla; USSR.

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