Maoise

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A form of Maoize — To bring under the political control of Mao Zedong.

Scrabble 8

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verbMaoise (third-person singular simple present Maoises, present participle Maoising, simple past and past participle Maoised)

present singular third person Maoises · participle present Maoising · participle past Maoised · past Maoised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Maoize.

    It is said that Mao had 'sinicised' Marxism-Leninism, rather more correctly he 'Maoised' the technique of terror.

    1991, Mahindar Singh, Un-diplomatic memoirs, page 37
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    In other words, Asia and Africa, bound to China by "common history and common tasks" have no alternative but to be Maoised.

    1967, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (U.S.). Oregon Chapter, Mainstream - Volume 5, page 38

    The aftermath of 1945 ultimately entailed, in Pacific Asia, a stand off between two ideological versions of the new Asian identity constructed either around revolutionary nationalism or a Maoised version of Marxist Leninism.

    1995, D. Bell, D. Brown, K. Jayasuriya, Towards Illiberal Democracy, page 58

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