• far left radical communists
  • derive their ideology from Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong
  • believe that
    • all existing social relations
    • existing structures
      • legislature
      • judiciary
      • executive
    • are elitist capitalist society
      • exploitative in nature
  • revolutionary change violent means ➑️ end this exploitation
  • Naxals Doctrine
  • against the state of India
    • do not want secessionist movement
    • want to capture power
      • not through ballot but through bullet
      • capturing power through armed struggle
        • to install people’s govt.
        • Protracted People's War