Do you have evidence showing an actual line of descent from Maoism to “social justice”, or is this just conjecture?
According to Wikipedia (which is always right, except when it’s wrong) the term was first used (with something resembling its modern meaning) by a Jesuit priest and its history continues with the likes of Louis Brandeis and John Rawls. And that history—which is clearly not Maoist in any useful sense—seems to me like a more obvious antecedent to today’s social justice movement than Maoism does. Even if Pol Pot studied in Paris.
(Perhaps I’m taking you too literally and “is the newest incarnation of Mao Zedong Thought” just means “is kinda leftist and boooo, I hate it”?)
There seem to be similarities in behavior to the “Cultural Revolution”, such as rebelling at universities, and requiring teachers and classmates to toe the line or publicly apologize and/or get fired, etc. (I don’t know if the similarities are sufficient, or if this is more or less a standard pattern for every political movement.)
I don’t know about every political movement, but it’s certainly a thing that happens a lot; see e.g. the list at the end of Wikipedia’s article on student protests. You’ll notice that there’s quite a variety of causes there, enough so that from “Maoism and X both had rebellions at universities” I don’t think you can infer any interesting similarities between X and Maoism.
For sure. Which is why, having observed one obvious non-Maoist line of descent, I’m asking “any evidence for the Maoism thing?” rather than saying “you’re obviously wrong about the Maoism thing”.
Do you have evidence showing an actual line of descent from Maoism to “social justice”, or is this just conjecture?
According to Wikipedia (which is always right, except when it’s wrong) the term was first used (with something resembling its modern meaning) by a Jesuit priest and its history continues with the likes of Louis Brandeis and John Rawls. And that history—which is clearly not Maoist in any useful sense—seems to me like a more obvious antecedent to today’s social justice movement than Maoism does. Even if Pol Pot studied in Paris.
(Perhaps I’m taking you too literally and “is the newest incarnation of Mao Zedong Thought” just means “is kinda leftist and boooo, I hate it”?)
There seem to be similarities in behavior to the “Cultural Revolution”, such as rebelling at universities, and requiring teachers and classmates to toe the line or publicly apologize and/or get fired, etc. (I don’t know if the similarities are sufficient, or if this is more or less a standard pattern for every political movement.)
I don’t know about every political movement, but it’s certainly a thing that happens a lot; see e.g. the list at the end of Wikipedia’s article on student protests. You’ll notice that there’s quite a variety of causes there, enough so that from “Maoism and X both had rebellions at universities” I don’t think you can infer any interesting similarities between X and Maoism.
SJ had multiple influences of course, the existence of one line of descent (e.g. Rawls) does not invalidate other ancestors.
For sure. Which is why, having observed one obvious non-Maoist line of descent, I’m asking “any evidence for the Maoism thing?” rather than saying “you’re obviously wrong about the Maoism thing”.