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2) Instead of following Lenin's idea of a Communist party demon-
strating in city centers to prepare the way for revolution, Mao estab-
lished a "guerilla war" and organized a Communist party based in the
countryside and in the mountains.
3) In place of the movement toward internationalism, the founda-
tion of Marxism that Lenin adopted, Mao favored nationalism and de-
veloped the idea of "National Socialism."
The reason behind these three different approaches was the condi-
tions in which Mao found himself. In China, where almost the whole
population was composed of peasants with a conservative, nationalist
frame of mind, Mao had no other choice than to establish "nationalist
peasant socialism." Unavoidably, Mao gave priority to the peasants, ap-
plied the model of the "country guerilla," and organized among the
peasantry.
This explains not only why Maoism was different from Leninism in
terms of methods, but also why it became an even more savage, bar-
barous and rigid ideology. The advent of Maoism added to
Communism—which was already pitiless and bloodthirsty—a greater
degree of ignorance, fanatic nationalism and hostility to culture and civ-
ilization. Total calamity was the result. Maoism was the worst kind of
Communism; in fact we can say it was the worst of the worst.
That being said, however, in conclusion, the ultimate goal of both
Leninism and Maoism is to ensure the dominance of communism. There
are merely methodical differences between the two in accordance with
the socio-cultural and geographical conditions of the countries and the
regions where this goal is aimed.

Chinese Communism developed
and came to power with Stalin's
support. But Red China's brutality
was worse than Stalin's.