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The term Mao-spontex or Maoist spontaneism refers to a syncretic Maoist and libertarian Marxist political tendency in France that arose after the 1968 Mass Protests and lasted until around 1972. The name Mao-spontex is a portmanteau of Maoist and spontaneist, while the reference to Spontex [fr], a French cleaning sponge brand, is a re-appropriation of name-calling which disparaged the movement's anti-authoritarian approach to revolution.

Mao-spontex was inspired by both the spontaneous action of the Movement of March 22 in France and subsequent protest movement and the Cultural Revolution in China, and came to represent an ideology promoting some aspects of Maoism, Marxism, and Leninism, but rejecting the total idea of Marxism–Leninism. Lenin's work What Is To Be Done? was especially targeted for criticism since they rejected Lenin's critique of spontaneity. The idea of democratic centralism was supported as a way to organize a party, but only if it stays in constant contact with a mass worker's movement to remain revolutionary. The main party vehicles for Mao-spontex were the French political party Gauche prolétarienne and the group Vive la révolution.

The tendency falls under the wider current of Western Maoism that existed after the emergence of the New Left.

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References

  1. ^ "Investigation into the Maoists in France". Marxists.org. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Cahiers du cinéma's Maoist Turn and the Front Culturel Révolutionnaire". Zapruder World. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
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  4. Bourg, Julian (2017-11-28). From Revolution to Ethics, Second Edition. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 86. doi:10.1515/9780773552463. ISBN 978-0-7735-5246-3. It did not take long for the GP-ists to become known as 'Mao-spontex', or Maoist-spontaneists. The name was originally an insult—Spontex was the brand name of a cleaning sponge—intended to belittle the group's embrace of anti-authoritarianism as an element of revolutionary contestation. The marxisant tradition had long criticized spontaneism as an anarchistic error.
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  9. Graber, Lauren; Spaulding, Daniel (2019-11-18), Galimberti, Jacopo; de Haro García, Noemi; Scott, Victoria H. F. (eds.), "The Red Flag: The art and politics of West German Maoism", Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Manchester University Press, doi:10.7765/9781526117472.00011, ISBN 978-1-5261-1747-2, S2CID 209562552, retrieved 2023-12-24

Further reading

  • Ulrike Heider, Keine Ruhe nach dem Sturm, Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitausendeins, Hamburg, 2001.

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