カーゴ・カルトへ?

Peter Walker and Josh Halliday “'Slave keepers' were members of cultlike political group” http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/25/london-slaves-cultlike-political-group
“London slavery case: Suspects 'former Maoist activists'” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25084830


倫敦で30年間に亙って3人の女性を「奴隷」状態に置いてきたされる夫婦は毛沢東主義グループのメンバーだった。何時の間にか一切の活動から撤退し、人民解放軍が倫敦を「解放」するのをひたすら待ち続けるというカーゴ・カルト*1への途を歩んだようだ。
このAravindan Balakrishnanグループの存在は世の中から完全に隠されていたのではなく、知る人ぞ知るという感じだったようだ。『ガーディアン』の記事によれば、牛津大学の人類学者Steve Rayner*2は1979年にBalakrishnanグループを研究した博士論文を提出している。 さらにTVドラマ化もされているようなのだ;


The Balakrishnan group's beliefs were mocked in the diary column of the Times, prompting speculation that it may have been a partial model for the Tooting Popular Front, the ludicrous political movement in Citizen Smith, the BBC sitcom, which began in 1977.
BBCの記事から、Maoism解説の部分;

The name comes from the Chinese communist leader, Mao Zedong, who put industry under state ownership, collectivised farming and ruthlessly suppressed opposition.

Maoism within China represented "traditional conventional communism" but with an authoritarian class, according to Dr Xiaobing Wang of Manchester University.

Outside China, it is often used to characterise rebel groups, he says.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Maoism outside China often meant communal living and egalitarianism with an authoritarian structure, Prof James Grayson, of the University of Sheffield says.