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=== Chinese communist revolution ===
[[File:1967-12 1967年 毛泽东与安娜·斯特朗.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Chairman Mao with US journalist [[Anna Louise Strong]], whose work presented and explained the Chinese Communist revolution to the Western world. (1967)]]
As a revolutionary theoretician of [[communism]] seeking to realize a [[socialist state]] in China, Mao developed and adapted the urban ideology of [[Orthodox Marxism]] for practical application to the agrarian conditions of pre-industrial China and the [[Chinese people]].<ref>Lüthi, Lorenz M. Historical Background, 1921–1955, ''The Sino-Soviet split: Cold War in the Communist World'' (2008) p. 26.</ref> Mao's Sinification of Marxism–Leninism, [[Mao Zedong Thought]], established political pragmatism as the first priority for realizing the accelerated [[modernization]] of a country and a people, and ideological orthodoxy as the secondary priority because Orthodox Marxism originated for practical application to the socio-economic conditions of industrialized [[Western Europe]] in the 19th century.<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'', Third Edition (1999) Allan Bullock and Stephen Trombley, Eds., p.&nbsp;501.</ref>

During the Chinese Civil War in 1947, Mao dispatched American journalist [[Anna Louise Strong]] to the West, bearing political documents explaining China's socialist future, and asked that she "show them to Party leaders in the United States and Europe", for their better understanding of the [[Chinese Communist Revolution]], but that it was not "necessary to take them to Moscow."

Mao trusted Strong because of her positive reportage about him, as a theoretician of communism, in the article "The Thought of Mao Tse-Tung", and about the CCP's communist revolution, in the 1948 book ''Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder Out of China: An Intimate Account of the Liberated Areas in China'', which reports that Mao's [[Intellectualism|intellectual]] achievement was "to change Marxism from a European [form] to an Asiatic form . . . in ways of which neither Marx nor Lenin could dream."{{citation needed|reason=could not find the book online|date=September 2022}}