How did Mao Zedong adapt Marxism?

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My adaptation of Marxism-Leninism to China stemmed from a practical investigation of its concrete conditions. I observed that in China, unlike industrialized Europe, the peasantry constituted the vast majority and held immense revolutionary potential. Therefore, I shifted the focus of revolution from the urban proletariat to the rural peasantry, advocating for a people's war strategy rooted in peasant mobilization and protracted struggle.

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