Maolatry

English Alternative forms en Maoolatry Etymology en :af Mao -olatry 1 1 Pronunciation en /maʊˈɒlətɹi/ en ɒlətɹi 4 Noun - The worship of Mao Zedong. en 1970 Man and His Deeds 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=0Rmh2oXFpIYC After that, they were ripe for a combination of sinolatry and Maolatry. en 1977 Alain Peyrefitte The Chinese: Portrait of a People 42 https://books.google.fr/books?id=LKNxAAAAMAAJ The criticisms barely went beyond the small circle of political officials and intellectuals. Today they have either been swept away or drowned by the powerful wave of Maolatry generated by the Cultural Revolution. en 1999 Anselm Jappe Guy Debord 105 https://books.google.com/books?id=55R2XN3ZfKwC&pg=PA105 Simon Leys’s Les Habits neufs du président Mao (Paris: Champ Libre, bibliothèque Asiatique, 1971) was a genuine bombshell, for it was the first denunciation of the “Maolatry” then prevailing among French intellectuals. en 2018 Roland Depierre Maoism in French Thought and Practice Ruth Hayhoe, Marianne Bastid China’s Education and the Industrialized World 206 https://books.google.com/books?id=x3M3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA206 All that opposed Mao was by definition false through and through, since Truth and Falsity were absolutely at odds. “There are not any number of ways of conceiving of the world, but only two ways. Whoever refuses one, by definition adopts the other. That is all.” / This Maolatry emerged from a double mythology: the historical myth of a prince who is a founder, legislator and liberator of the collectivity, inspirer and guide of the enlightened few, who inaugurates a new historical period; and the philosophical myth of a king who is not only a philosopher but a true sage. Translations French: fr maolâtrie f Italian: it maolatria f Spanish: es maolatría f en Chinese politics Communism Maoism