Edit: I’m from the Global South, I should’ve clarified that on the post. The lesson has been learned.
Many leftist movements, legit or not, call themselves either Trotskyist or Maoist and keep dissing Stalin for his “socialism in one state” policy and “ruining” Comintern and Deng Xiaoping for his “liberal” policies.
I want to know what they are trying to do by distancing themselves from the USSR and PRC while fetishizing Cuba and Vietnam—you’ll only hear them talking about the Vietnam War, btw—and following either the guy who lost the power struggle or a literal Marxist-Leninist who supported one of the refused countries and founding the other.
This is a great answer that clarified everything, thank you very much!
Btw, who are the “Gang of Four”?
You can find more context regarding the Gang of Four and the cultural revolution here -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4111581
The so called Gang of Four were four Chinese people deeply influential on Chinese politics during the later stages of the Cultural Revolution. They were eventually demoted from their positions and faced trials. Maoists say that this was a counterrevolution. I don’t know a lot about it, but that’s the short of it.