Maoism

Communist parties, organizations, groups, and individuals that uphold the idea that the practice and/or theories of Mao Zedong, the erstwhile leader of the Communist Party of China and the Peoples Republic of China represent a qualitatively new and higher development of Marxism and Leninism. Such groups typically denote their ideology as "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism", or more simply, "Maoism". These groups are to be distinguished from those that merely uphold "Mao Zedong Thought", which makes no such claim.