English

Maoism

From Mao (surname of Mao Zedong) + -ism.

Formed from Mao + -ism

Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *makomako

Samoan ma'oma'o ‘a bird of the genus Gymnomyza’

Samoan ma'o

English Mao

Today it means

noun The philosophy espoused by Chinese leader Mao Zedong, a form of Marxism-Leninism that focuses on the peasantry as the revolutionary vanguard.

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