Editing Maoism (section)

=== Mao-Spontex ===
[[Mao-Spontex]] refers to a Maoist interpretation in western Europe that stresses the importance of the cultural revolution and overthrowing hierarchy.<ref name="Levy1971">{{Cite web |last=Lévy |first=Benny |author-link=Benny Lévy |date=1971 |title=Investigation into the Maoists in France |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/levy-benny/1971/investigation.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124035106/https://www.marxists.org/archive/levy-benny/1971/investigation.htm |archive-date=24 January 2021 |access-date=30 April 2019 |via=[[Marxists Internet Archive]]}}</ref> A political movement in the Marxist and [[anarchist|libertarian]] movements in Western Europe from 1968 to 1971,<ref name="Bourg2017">{{Cite book |last=Bourg |first=Julian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6Y6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT86 |title=From Revolution to Ethics, Second Edition: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought |publisher=MQUP |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-7735-5247-0 |page=86 |quote=It did not take long for the GP-ists to become known as "Mao-spontex," or Maoist-spontaneists. The name was originally an insult—Spontex was the brand name of a cleaning sponge—intended to belittle the group's embrace of antiauthoritarianism as an element of revolutionary contestation. The marxisant tradition had long criticized spontaneism as an anarchistic error. |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref name="Levy1971" /> Mao-Spontex came to represent an ideology promoting the ideas of Maoism with some influence from [[Marxism]] and [[Leninism]], but rejecting the total idea of [[Marxism–Leninism]].<ref name="Levy1971" />