Thanks for all suggestions so far. The context for this is a projected paper/article (just in the planning/abstract stage at the moment) looking at various composers explicitly engaging with Maoist ideas in their work, primarily Cornelius Cardew. But I'm interested in anything on the reception and interpretation of Maoism in the West in general. The impression I get is that those calling themselves Maoist in the 1960s and 1970s tended to fall into two categories: (a) those who took Mao's side in the Sino-Soviet split, and saw Maoism as an anti-revisionist antidote to Krushchev's critique of Stalin, and (b) those who associated Maoism with a more generalised romantic third-worldism, reasonably untrammeled by classical Marxist distinctions of the revolutionary or other role of the peasantry and the proletariat. I'm very interested in general in posters' thoughts on these matters.
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