ABSTRACT
Mao Zedong accepted the doctrines of Marx, V. I. Lenin, and Stalin for the PRC in their entirety. Mao’s own contributions to the development of Marxist-Leninist ideology were mainly concerned with revolutionary strategy and tactics, the methods of exercising proletarian dictatorship, and the promotion of the course of history. The major content of these mass movements, in turn, was ever sharpening “class struggle,” which Mao in a statement made in late 1975 called the “key link” of all political, social, and economic development. The politics of compromise among the reformist, centrist, and orthodox groups within the leadership continued. An orthodox-oriented coalition in the area of policies regarding intellectuals and political dissent and in questions of Party discipline. The leadership by the party in fact means the guarantee for the Chine communist party ruling elite to hold the reins of power.
