Mao’s Anti-Imperialism: Lessons for Today | World School of Communism 2026

This recording is from the World School of Communism 2026, an international event translated into many languages in real time. To make it easier to watch, we have edited out translation pauses and preserved the content of the presentation. Subtitle translations are available in Arabic, Bengali, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Mandarin (Simplified), Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Urdu. Please note that these are automated translations and there may be slight errors. We are often criticised by Maoists, or those at least sympathetic to Mao, as being nitpickers subjecting real revolutions to unrealistic purity tests. They say that in doing so, we effectively side with western imperialism, and fail to recognise the heroic anti-imperialist work of Mao and the Chinese Communist Party. If Mao was such an exemplar of anti-imperialism, how do we explain the Sino-Soviet Split, in which the world’s two largest planned economies fought against one another instead of uniting against imperialism? How do we explain Mao’s resulting embrace of Nixon and the precursor to the EU as part of his struggle with the USSR? Why did these strange events take place, and what do they tell us about ‘Socialism in One Country? Why does Mao have such a strong reputation as an anti-imperialist if he collaborated with imperialist countries? Is China’s rise as an imperialist power a contradiction of Maoism, or a logical consequence? What are the relevant lessons for today’s epoch of imperialist proxy wars and the rise of China as imperialist? This talk by Daniel Morley will answer all these questions and more. 🫵 Join the Revolutionary Communist International: https://marxist.com/join-us.htm 📚 Marxist literature: https://wellred-books.com/ 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/68nGNHz... 📱 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 📸 Instagram:   / revcomintern   💬 Twitter: https://x.com/revcomintern/