A great line

From Bhabani Sen Gupta’s 1972 article in China Quarterly about China and the Indian Communists:

“Maoism, for the CPI [note: this is post-split and in contrast to the CPM, which was on uneasier ground], was not Marxism-Leninism but a narodnik deviance fortified by petit-bourgeois chauvinism” (p. 285)