Nationalism Mao's nationalist impulses also played a crucially important role in adapting Marxism to the Chinese model and in the formation of Maoism. Mao believed that China was to play a crucial preliminary role in the socialist revolution internationally. This belief, or the fervor with which Mao held it, separated Mao from the other Chinese communists and led Mao onto the path of what Leon Trotsky called "Messianic Revolutionary Nationalism", which was central to his philosophy. German post–World War II far-right activist Michael Kühnen, a former Maoist, once praised Maoism as a Chinese form of Nazism.
Nationalism Mao's nationalist impulses also played a crucially important role in adapting Marxism to the Chinese model and in the formation of Maoism Mao believed that China was to play a crucial preliminary role in the socialist revolution internationally This belief or the fervor with which Mao held it separated Mao from the other Chinese communists and led Mao onto the path of what Leon Trotsky called "Messianic Revolutionary Nationalism" which was central to his philosophy German post–World War II far-right activist Michael Kühnen a former Maoist once praised Maoism as a Chinese form of Nazism