Like, let’s say that hypothetically China is not socialist. Why do they feel the need to equate it to the USA or to constantly diss it? Literally, no other country has 800 military bases abroad, and no other country will vulture the resources away from a fallen China like the USA would. So, being a Maoist to me just is helping the USA Intelligence departments. Literally, NATO and Western Imperialism are the main enemies, I don’t get why some groups wouldn’t want to take China as an ally. Even if they were ultra capitalist like the Maoist say, if the West falls is not like China would even be able to become the USA 2.0. They make up a dystopian future based on lies and fears and then equate that fake future to our current world, and end up equating an evil empire to a country that just wants to give the rest of the world another option.
Maoists feel like an “us vs the world” exclusive club to me
This might be a good start: https://archive.org/details/critiqueszymanski/mode/1up
Unfortunately it’s fairly outdated. When it was written the Soviet Union was still around and China had not yet opened up, and there are a lot of lessons that Marxists over the past four decades have had to draw from what happened to the CPSU, the dissolution of the USSR, and China’s successful rise. But this nonetheless explains basically the origins and problems of ultra-left Marxism in the post Chinese revolution era.
It’s not focused on Maoism specifically though. For that you’ll have to ask someone else for recommendations, i don’t have anything right at this moment. I will look into it.