>>24621143 (OP)
>america is full of impoverished rednecks who hate the government and own tons of guns (and were also the only group to wage something close to an American socialist revolution)
>maoists deride them and instead focus on the urban minority groups that are plagued by inter-ethnic conflicts and don't have the weaponry to actually wage a people's war
I'm no Marxist, but at least Mao understood that the poor rural population had the best chance of overthrowing capitalism, and revolutionaries in the Philippines and Nepal followed this model to great success (at least in comparison to other post-Cold-War Marxists). The Western Maoists are too blinded by race to actually organize the groups with any capability to revolt.