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Did you know that between 1969 and 1978 the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen was influenced by Maoism? Yemen’s socialists successfully built a welfare state with high-quality education, guaranteed employment, and subsidized housing. Read on.
The NLF’s left-wing took control in a bloodless coup in 1969. It renamed the country the “People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen,” embraced Marxism-Leninism as its governing philosophy, and aligned with the Soviet Bloc.
Despite officially identifying with the Soviet Bloc after 1969, the left wing of the NLF remained heavily inspired by China and Maoist political philosophy.
In 1968, the NLF sent an official delegation on a working visit to China. Leading Chinese Communist Party officials, including Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, accompanied them.
The NLF, still nominally Nasserist in 1968, expressed its intentions to adopt Marxism-Leninism as its guiding ideology with the Chinese officials. In turn, the Chinese spoke about their own experiences.
Although the NLF’s Nasserist faction was deposed in 1969, Salim Rubai Ali, the first president of Marxist Yemen, remained devoted to drawing inspiration from Maoist theory.
Salim organized the “Seven Glorious Days” in 1972, inspired by the Chinese Cultural Revolution. During these days, hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants were brought to the capital to protest party bureaucracy.
Salim also organized the People’s Militia, inspired by the Chinese Red Guards of the 1970s. He viewed the creation of the Yemeni Socialist Party as unnecessary bureaucracy and introduced the progressive Family Law in 1974.
Salim introduced a school system inspired by the Chinese model in both rural and metropolitan areas. This system was devoid of class differences and hierarchies and was built on the foundational principle of criticism and self-criticism.
Salim Rubai Ali was shot dead in an internal coup on July 26, 1978 and replaced by moderate NLF leader Ali Nassir Muhammad, bringing Yemen’s brief Maoist period to an end.
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