Maoism argues that rural peasants should play a key role in communist revolutions
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Maoism is a development of Marxism-Leninism that emphasizes the role of peasants in revolution, the concept of protracted people's war, and continuous revolution under socialism. It also emphasizes mass mobilization and ideological purity. These elements distinguish Maoism from classical Marxism and Leninism.
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Forms of communism include Marxism, Marxist-Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and Trotskyism. Stalinism is still practiced in North Korea, Vietnam practices a form of Marxist-Leninism, and the Shining Path guerrillas of Peru still practice Maoism.
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Political ideology (Maoism vs. National Socialism), mainly.
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Maoism differed from Leninism with his lack of interest in the urban proletariat and in his conception of the vanguard party. Lenin believed this party would be the avatar of the proletarian consciousness but, for Mao, the party would both teach and learn directly from the masses in leading the revolution.
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Lets see... Buddhism, Janism, Seikism, Confuciousism, Taoism, Maoism, Shinto... Lots of religions.
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Maoism argues that rural peasants should play a key role in communist revolutions
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The US owes China $14 Trillion, it's rising at $22,000 a second. China wouldn't be a powerhouse today if it werent for Maoism.
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Mao Zedong was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China. His Marxist-Leninist theories, military strategies and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought.
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He killed (inadvertently) around 50 million people. I think that's a good start. There is also Maoism, an offshoot of Marxism but in his case politics came before economy. He used the power of millions of poor.
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Prachanda Path (Prachanda-ism) is what the Nepalese Maoist leader Prachanda aka Pushpa Kamal Dahal put forward as his political party's ideology which he claims to be the suitable version of the Marxism-Leninisn-Maoism for the present day Nepal.
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Yes. It is happening here in America as the government tries to take on more and more of the power that belongs to the states and the people!
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Nope. While some socialist ends that Mao would no doubt have liked can be reached without revolution, Maoism itself IS revolution.
It was not just the overthrowing of the old powers that be, but a complete eradiction of them to clear the way for a rebuilding of everything. It was Communism - an essential part of which mandates revolution - but changed for the needs of the peasant in general, and the Chinese in particular.
There is no American comparison available. Advocating a reform is not advocating revolution. Mao - like Hitler - has no realistic American equivalent.
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Communism. Although Mao Zedong's brand of Communism differed from traditional Marxism-Leninism in that the peasantry took the place of the proletariat as the revolutionary vanguard. Zedong's take on Communism is often referred to as "Maoism".
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Mao Zedong's movement, "Mao Zedong Thought", was the guiding principle of the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War and until his death in 1976. The principles of Maoism are organized around Agrarian communism and the establishment of the People's Democratic Dictatorship. Maoism, distinct from Stalinism or Marxist-Leninism, is not a form of industrial communism but a postcolonial liberation movement focused on ending imperial domination over countries in the "developing" world. Maoist parties and guerrilla movements can still be found world-wide, in such places as Nepal, India, Thailand and Columbia. Che Guevara famously split with Fidel Castro over the former's support of Maoism over Marxist-Leninism.
China today lists Mao Zedong Thought as part of it's leading ideology, but Mao's role in modern China is as little more than a ceremonial icon and nationalist figure. His thought has been displaced by Deng Xiaoping Theory, The Three Represents, and Scientific Development Theory.
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Chairman Mao succeeded in making China into a nuclear power. His deranged policies also caused the death by starvation of many millions of Chinese, and generally disrupted Chinese society and delayed its modernization by decades; China is only now beginning to recover from the effects of Maoism.
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Mao opposed Communism and established a dictatorial form of state capitalism.
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Maoism was really a form of Stalinism, with the same pervasive institutionalized paranoia and cult of personality; bear in mind that Mao came to power only with the help of his close ally Stalin. The type of society that Mao was determined to build was one that was obsessed with himself. It was a narcissistic vision.
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Josef Stalin was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union from +/- 1924 until his death in 1953. Stalinism refers to his ideology and policies, which included the murder of millions of (percieved) political opponents. North-Korea today is considered a Stalinist regime. Other forms of communism include the Chinese Maoism, and the more moderate and theoretical Marxism.
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There is little relation between the two, first off, true communism involves the working class having political power, not a party as in China. Secondly, there is little allowance of foreign trade (if at all) in true communism, because there can be no privatization, which would be completely the opposite of Marxist theory. Maybe you should rephrase your question: How does Maoism relate to Marxism.
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By the formal definitions of communism, China was never a communist state because control of social resources had not fallen into the proletariat nor had class divisions been removed. In effect, China was a state-led bureaucratic state which, economically, was centrally-planned. This central-planning partly discontinued during the late 1970s and has continually slowed to the modern day.
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Tang Tsou has written:
'America's failure in China, 1941-50' -- subject(s): Foreign relations, Politics and government
'Maoism at home and abroad' -- subject(s): Communism, Foreign relations
'Zhongguo ge ming zai chan shi' -- subject(s): Politics and government
'America's failure in China, 1941-50' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Relaciones exteriores, Foreign relations, Au enpolitik
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When the revolution happened people had to flee China and others were taken to reeducation camps. All were required to wear the same clothing, and the government controlled all aspects of life from what people did to where they worked. A communist society allows no free expression, thought, or protest. Prison camps were opened or people were shot. Today, it is a bit better, but still is communist.
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Si Mao Zedong ay isang lider ng Tsina na nagtatag ng People's Republic of China at nagsulong ng mga programa tulad ng Great Leap Forward at Cultural Revolution. Kilala siya sa kanyang konsepto ng Maoism at ang pagtatatag ng Communist Party of China. Ipinanganak siya noong 1893 at pumanaw noong 1976.
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Notice: these aren't EXACT synonyms, but their close enough to be considered socialism.
Communism, welfare statism, collectivism, Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, proletariat dictatorship, public ownership, statism, economic planning, wealth redistribution, non-classism, social democracy, classless society, fiat economics, etc.
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He grew up in a one room shack in the ma f**cking ghetto nah mean? He was a gang member,drug dealer, and straight P-I-M-P representin XiangTan, Hunan Province you better recognize! Then he discovered his rhymin skills and got out da ghetto and was living the life money,cash,hoes nah mean? Then he became stalins homeboy and they represented marxism,leninism,stalinism,maoism fo sho. Does that answer you question , HUH PUNK!
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The flag of China consists of a red field with five yellow stars in the top left corner. The larger star represents the Communist Party of China, while the four smaller stars represent the four social classes of China as defined in Maoism.
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Vladimir Lenin - Soviet union
Joseph Stalin - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong - China
Fidel and Raul Castro - Cuba
Boleslaw Bierut - Poland
However what Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto did not match what communism actually turned into. Many Leaders such as Stalin etc turned it into something different as to what was intended and therefore many such as Stalin, Mao and the Castros wouldn't be considered by Marx or Engels to be communist in the way that they were e.g. Mao had his own branch of communism - Maoism as did Stalin - Stalinism etc. The leader who was most in line with the original theory of communism was Lenin and therefore is probably the best example of a communist leader.
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China has stuck to the morality of Maoism, an inherently broken ideology based on the various broken ideologies of Marx and his various fanboys.
The Chinese Communist Party (i.e., the government) is not interested in abolishing the income gap, and will refuse to acknowledge the disparity between the super-rich part leaders and the poorer-than-dirt farmers in Sezchuan Province or the homeless in Beijing.
Socialism is and only can be a perverse, secretive form of capitalism - where the most powerful have most of everything; they also have the power to ignore or dismiss the poor and disenfranchised as nonexistent.
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It was considered genocide. Look at the Wikipedia encyclopedia:
In Cambodia, genocide was carried out by the Communist Khmer Rouge (KR) regime led by Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979 in which one and a half to three million people were killed. The KR had planned to create a form of agrarian socialism which was founded on the ideals of Stalinism and Maoism. The KR policies of forced relocation of the population from urban centres, torture, mass executions, use of forced labor, and malnutrition led to the deaths of an estimated 25 percent of the total population. The genocide was ended following the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. Up to 20,000 mass graves, known as the Killing Fields have been uncovered.
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After World War II, Stalin was trying to spread communism throughout the world. Pretty much what happened was that he reached China. There was a combination of Leninism and Marxism called Maoism, after the leader of the Chinese Communist Group, Mao. People favored communism over capitalism because their government was not doing very well at the time.
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The Soviet style of communism focused on urban workers, while the Chinese style focused on rural peasants.
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There are manyphilosophical schools and theories in ancient China, especially during the Spring Autumn and Waring States period. To choose three most influential philosophies from them, they should be Confucianism (儒家学派), Mohism (墨家学派) and Taoism (道家学派).
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Not quite, With North Korea straddled between China and the Soviet Union, Kim-Il-Sung often took a middle road between aligning himself with Marxist-Leninism or Maoism and over time North Korea has actually departed from both forms of mainstream Communism. Before 1953, North Korea was heavily influenced by Stalinism and his Soviet benefactors. However, after Stalin was denounced as a counter-revolutionary, Kim Il Sung sided with China against the Soviet Union. Maoism did not work out for long for Kim, as the cultural revolution in China in 1967 was contradictory to Kim's wishes for stable Dictatorship. North Korea reestablished good relations with the Soviet Union under Brezhnev, who was a Neo-Stalinist, but Kim decided to keep both countries at an arms length by creating the Juche philosophy. Juche became Kim Il Sung's personal combination of extreme nationalism, militarism, totalitarian absolutism and godlike worship of Kim-Il-Sung himself. Kim eventually went against all communist tradition by promoting a divine monarchist philosophy which allowed Kim-Il-Sung to be succeeded by his son Kim-Jong-Il. Kim-Jong-Il has moved away from Communism even further, through his "Songun" or "Military First" policy, which states that the Korean Army is the driving force of the revolution. The Songun policy blatantly contradicts all previous ideas of Marxism which state the the working class are the driving force of the revolution. As Kim-Jong-Il prepares to be succeeded by the third "Immortal Sun of Juche" of the Kim Dynasty, he has made altercations to the countries' constitution that remove all references to Communism as the state ideology.
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Not quite, With North Korea straddled between China and the Soviet Union, Kim-Il-Sung often took a middle road between aligning himself with Marxist-Leninism or Maoism and over time North Korea has actually departed from both forms of mainstream Communism.
Before 1953, North Korea was heavily influenced by Stalinism and his Soviet benefactors. However, after Stalin was denounced as a counter-revolutionary, Kim Il Sung sided with China against the Soviet Union. Maoism did not work out for long for Kim, as the cultural revolution in China in 1967 was contradictory to Kim's wishes for stable dictatorship.
North Korea reestablished good relations with the Soviet Union under Brezhnev, who was a Neo-Stalinist, but Kim decided to keep both countries at an arms length by creating the Juche philosophy. Juche became Kim Il Sung's personal combination of extreme nationalism, militarism, totalitarian absolutism and godlike worship of Kim-Il-Sung himself. Kim eventually went against all communist tradition by promoting a divine monarchist philosophy which allowed Kim-Il-Sung to be succeeded by his son Kim-Jong-Il. Kim-Jong-Il has moved away from Communism even further, through his "Songun" or "Military First" policy, which states that the Korean Army is the driving force of the revolution.
The Songun policy blatantly contradicts all previous ideas of Marxism which state the the working class are the driving force of the revolution. As Kim-Jong-Il prepares to be succeeded by the third "Immortal Sun of Juche" of the Kim Dynasty, he has made altercations to the countries' constitution that remove all references to Communism as the state ideology.
Not quite, With North Korea straddled between China and the Soviet Union, Kim-Il-Sung often took a middle road between aligning himself with Marxist-Leninism or Maoism and over time North Korea has actually departed from both forms of mainstream Communism. Before 1953, North Korea was heavily influenced by Stalinism and his Soviet benefactors. However, after Stalin was denounced as a counter-revolutionary, Kim Il Sung sided with China against the Soviet Union. Maoism did not work out for long for Kim, as the cultural revolution in China in 1967 was contradictory to Kim's wishes for stable dictatorship. North Korea reestablished good relations with the Soviet Union under Brezhnev, who was a Neo-Stalinist, but Kim decided to keep both countries at an arms length by creating the Juche philosophy. Juche became Kim Il Sung's personal combination of extreme nationalism, militarism, totalitarian absolutism and godlike worship of Kim-Il-Sung himself. Kim eventually went against all communist tradition by promoting a divine monarchist philosophy which allowed Kim-Il-Sung to be succeeded by his son Kim-Jong-Il. Kim-Jong-Il has moved away from Communism even further, through his "Songun" or "Military First" policy, which states that the Korean Army is the driving force of the revolution. The Songun policy blatantly contradicts all previous ideas of Marxism which state the the working class are the driving force of the revolution. As Kim-Jong-Il prepares to be succeeded by the third "Immortal Sun of Juche" of the Kim Dynasty, he has made altercations to the countries' constitution that remove all references to Communism as the state ideology.
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Life could only get better. It gave some relief from the grinding poverty they suffered. It is obvious to any student of history and observer of human nature that if the ruling group treads on people hard enough they will finally revolt because they were given no choice. all revolutions begin that way. Communist uprisings like the Chinese example are no different. Whatever you think of communism or revolutions they would not have occured in the first place if the populace had been well treated. Your question is a good example of how politically naive and downtrodden peasants will align themselves to a group that promises better.
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FICA, the abbreviation for Federal Insurance Contribution Act, also known as Social Security.
Social Security is also known as Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI), although retirement and survivors' benefits are only a portion of the SSA's obligations.
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That's the problem it don't!
== Well, to start, Communism has never literally existed. They were in a state of Socialism. The Official term for "Chinese communism" is Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Soviet Russia, however, chose to follow Marxism-Leninism. Mao claimed to have supplemented Marx and Lenin's theories with his own, just as Lenin supplemented Marx'. If you're curious about the subjects, just contact the modern followers of the ideologies. The most prominent Maoist party in the U.S. would be the Revolutionary Communist Party, and the most prominent Marxist-Leninist Parties are the Communist Party USA, and the Workers party. If you'd like to learn more about them, you may want to look both up in the "groups" section of myspace. This group is extremely educational: http://groups.myspace.com/CommunistPartyMarxismLeninism. *It is also argueed that the site-seeing is better in Chinese Communsm
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Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production. It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement. Early forms of human social organization have been described as 'primitive communism' by Marxists. However, communism as a political goal generally is a conjectured form of future social organization. There is a considerable variety of views among self-identified communists, including Maoism, Trotskyism, council communism, Luxemburgism, anarchist communism, Christian communism, and various currents of left communism, which are generally the more widespread varieties. However, various offshoots of the Soviet (what critics call the 'Stalinist') and Maoist interpretations of Marxism-Leninism comprise a particular branch of communism that has the distinction of having been the primary driving force for communism in world politics during most of the 20th century. The competing branch of Trotskyism has not had such a distinction
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China has a Coat of Arms, and it has a National emblem that serves much the same function.
The National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国国徽) contains a representation of Tiananmen Gate, the entrance gate of the Forbidden City from the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in a red circle. Above this representation are the five stars found on the national flag. The largest star represents the Communist Party of China, while the four smaller stars represent the four social classes as defined in Maoism. The emblem is described as being "Composed of patterns of the national flag."
The circle has a border that contains sheaves of wheat reflecting the Maoist philosophy of an agricultural revolution. At the center of the bottom portion of the border is a cog-wheel that represents the industrial workers. also to see a picture go to Google images and type in China's coat of arms.
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If one is referring to Classical Communism. (The original branch of Communism founded by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels) Then some of the main points worth knowing about Communism are:
I hope this helped you become less ignorant (def: lack of knowledge) about the political ideology that is Karl Marx's Communism. Remember though, this is Classical Communism. These do not apply to Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, Maoism, or the Little Brother Communist States (ie, Cuba and Vietnam).
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Oh, it's okay if you're feeling curious about Jennifer Whitney. Sometimes people move on to new adventures in life, just like how birds fly to different trees. Let's imagine her spreading her wings and painting new stories on the canvas of her life. Remember, change can lead to beautiful new landscapes.
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In the 20th century, a wave of communism swept through Asia, causing revolutionary uprisings in many Asian countries. In Korea, a revolutionary war was fought between 1950 and 1953. Korean communists received aid from the already communist China to the north, while the southern government received aid from the US, which used Japan to the south as a base.
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There are 2 Koreas.
Almost all North Koreans believe in the idea of Juche, also known "Kimilsungism" after Kim Ilsung, is the religious, political, social and economic ideology of North Korea.
The Juche Idea was first introduce by Kim Ilsung in 1955 to distance North Korea from the Soviet Union, which at the time was undoing many of the Stalinist policies that Kim Ilsung liked.
Over time, Juche evolved, borrowing from Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism and Confucianism whatever Kim Ilsung and Kim Jongil wanted, as well as their own ideas, and in 1972 replaced Marxism-Leninism in the North Korean constitution as the country's official ideology.
According to Juche, there is no god but Kim Ilsung, the country's "Eternal President", which makes North Korea the world's only country governed by an embalmed dead body. Juche has also attributed divine powers also to Kim Jongil.
South Korea has more traditional religions. 23% are Buddhist,
20% are Protestant Christian
11% are Catholic Christians
Around 1% believe in Jeung Sando or Jeungism
25% are secular or atheists with no religious belief
Many Villagers have no specific religious affiliation, but take on some of the principles and customs of Buddhism.
There are no other common religions in South Korea.
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After the death of Vladimir Lenin, Marxism-Leninism was the official ideology of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, and became the basis for other Communist state ideologies, including Maoism.
Marxism-Leninism involves a synthesis of orthodox Marxist ideas, such as historical materialism, class struggle, and Marxian economics; with Leninism, the political practice of the single-party state, Vanguard party, democratic centralism, and the economic theory of Imperialism. Marxism-Leninism also rejects keys elements of classical Marxism, such as spontaneous revolution and the emergence of socialism from the natural decay of capitalism.
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Both Koreas share a Buddhist and Confucianheritage and a recent history of Christian and Cheondoism ("religion of the Heavenly Way") movements.
Although North Korea is officially atheist and according to the Western standards of religion - the majority of Korean population could be characterized as irreligious - the cultural influence of such traditional religions as Buddhism and Confucianism still have an effect on North Korean spiritual life.
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Almost all North Koreans believe in the idea of Juche, also known "Kimilsungism" after Kim Ilsung.
Juche should be incorporated in the answer about what are North Korea`s most common religions. Juche is the religious, political, social and economic ideology of North Korea. The Juche Idea was first introduce by Kim Ilsung in 1955 to distance North Korea from the Soviet Union, which at the time was undoing many of the Stalinist policies that Kim Ilsung liked.
Over time, Juche evolved, borrowing from Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism and Confucianism whatever Kim Ilsung and Kim Jongil wanted, as well as their own ideas, and in 1972 replaced Marxism-Leninism in the North Korean constitution as the country's official ideology.
According to Juche, there is no god but Kim Ilsung, the country's "Eternal President", which makes North Korea the world's only country governed by an embalmed dead body. Juche has also attributed divine powers also to Kim Jongil.
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The below is also correct: China is Communist, and Communism is based on Marxism. Marx called religion "the opium of the people", and his philosophy was atheist. It was, however, dogmatic in its own way, and one could very well say that Maoism and Stalinism are as dogmatic as religion is. A modern philosopher could well remark that: "Communism is the opium of the people".
Thus: China is atheist because the state doesn't want competition other dogmas. Especially (if you consider Christianity) ones which are, essentially, communist.
AnswerAlthough below is correct in that many Chinese "religions" aren't theistic the real reason is because China is officially an atheist state because it is officially communist.
AnswerNone of the religions originally present in China (Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism) are especially theistic as such matters are viewed in the west. Falun Gong has roots only as far back as 1992 and it too is has a non-western view of deities. The imported religions (Islam and Christian) are theistic in the western sence but constitute a small minority position.
The question then is whether the motivation to forbid religions is to enforce atheism or that religions, in general, offer an alternate view or appraoch to the states edicts. This is especially true of Islam and Christianity which propose an over riding instruction to their followers to put religious viewpoints and rules (God-made law) ahead of state-made law.
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