The charismatic and controversial figure of Mao Zedong has left a deep mark on the history of twentiethcentury. His ghostly presence still looms large over Chinas new capitalist developments and his legacy has also remarkably spread beyond national borders and into completely different political and social contexts. Since the Cultural Revolution in 1966 several groups inspired by Chinese MarxismLeninism have appeared worldwide. Political ideals revolutionary propositions fantasies and images o