mao-spontex came to represent an ideology promoting the ideas of maoism, along with some ideas from marxism and leninism, but rejecting the total idea of marxism–leninism. lenin's work "what is to be done?" especially is criticized as dated and lenin's critique of spontaneity is rejected. lenin's idea of democratic centralism is supported as a way to organize a party, but a party must also have constant conflict inside of it to remain revolutionary. the revolutionary party discussed must also always be from a mass worker's movement.