Maoistn.adj.
/ˈmaʊɪst/, U.S. /ˈmaʊəst/ A. n.
A follower of Mao Zedong or his theories.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > politics in India and Far East > [noun] > Chinese politics > principles or policies > supporters or adherents of
Tai-ping1853
Tai-pingdom1884
reorganizationist1901
Maoist1949
1949 Christian Science Monitor 11 Oct. 1 Perhaps the newly converted Maoists soon will realize the impropriety of remaining in an embassy situated on Avenue George V.
1964 New Statesman 17 Apr. 592/3 The Maoists are blind not to see this and to identify their cause with a nostalgia for the Stalin epoch.
1970 New Scientist 19 Mar. 539/2 Neither Tories nor Labourites can be blamed for sounding like Maoists, desperately looking for a Little Red Book.
1976 Survey Winter 21 Richard Nixon's first visit to Peking certainly led to the alienation of many Maoists abroad.
1994 Toronto Star 25 June (Metro ed.) c1/1 The poll found that 11 per cent of respondents planned to vote for ‘other parties’—Maoists, anti-abortionists, yogic flyers and the like.
B. adj.
Of or relating to Maoism or its adherents.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > politics in India and Far East > [adjective] > principles, policies, or parties in China
white1937
Yenan1949
Maoist1951
lean to one side1956
Sanfan1956
Wufan1956
three-anti1966
Tachai1969
1951 B. I. Schwartz Chinese Communism & Rise of Mao xiii. 190 Another peculiar feature of the Maoist strategy..is the preference for ‘border area’ bases.
1961 Listener 23 Nov. 886/2 Maoist Marxism.
1967 Guardian 15 May 6/1 The demonstrators have been conducting their affairs in Maoist style—little red books of quotations and all.
1973 Listener 2 Aug. 147/2 This year Mao will be 80, so we may assume that the Maoist era is coming to its end.
1981 Washington Post 21 Sept. a17/4 The only political group to have been singled out in the assaults is an apparently tiny Maoist organization called Sendero Luminoso.
1994 Sci. Amer. May 18/1 Because mainstream modern cosmology regards the universe as having an origin, Maoist ideologues believed it therefore demanded the existence of a deity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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