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Unfortunately, you are wrong about everything except for leftist infighting.
Yeah, just noticed this is post on a Lemmygrad forum.
I'll yield to the experts!
Stay and learn about the beauty of Marxism-Leninism.
One Maoist critique of modern China is that they 'betrayed' Mao (perhaps during Deng's era but it may depend who you ask). While Mao is good for theorising revolution, he didn't say too much about socialist construction, hence the need to develop new theory. Maoists reject the notion of moving past/building on Mao; in part because they theorise revolution/socialist construction differently. Marxist-Leninists accept that Mao was an ML, as was Deng and as is Xi. This doesn't mean there aren't disagreements among MLs. But they see themselves as part of a single tradition.
In all fairness, my "knowledge" on the mater mostly hails back to the post-revolutionary period in Portugal (so the decade or so after people overthrew the fascist dictatorship in 1974) and how the communist groups which were inspired by Mao's Revolution didn't quite get along with the ones inspired by the Russian Revolution.
Some acquaintances of mine were part of some communist movement or other back then, both before and after the revolution, and the whole thing is massivelly fragmented nowadays (plenty of Communists detest the present day Communist Party in Portugal, which was inspired by 50s Soviet Union version and which they see as self-serving, autoritarian and not really fighting for the greater good).
That said, it is quite superficial knowledge, quite local and a lot of water has run under the bridge since :/
Have a pleasant day.