in a truly puzzling turn of events, our government has chosen to embrace a maoist course of action to achieve decidedly non-maoist objectives. 

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/829441.html

the idea that conflict, and specifically armed struggle, is necessary to bring about social change was present around the edges of marxist-leninist thought but really came to the front under mao.  in fact, the major schisms in political philosophy between china and soviet union were predominantly based on the ideas among the chinese vanguard that the soviet union was willing to diplomatically engage with the west and as a result become tacitly corrupted in the process

you know, i'm probably going to lose all my revolutionary street cred here, and the social-labor-workers-democratic-cooperative-nihilist-alliance party will probably pull my membership, but lately i've bene more of a mind to take to the philosophy of lennon rather than that of lenin.  but let's keep that on the down low...

-sg