1986年10月,澳大利亚布里斯班的格里菲斯大学为纪念毛泽东逝世10周年举办专题研讨会,西方从事毛泽东研究的一批知名学者出席了会议,并递交了论文。美国北伊利诺埃大学政治科学系副教·布兰特利·沃马克的论文是《从毛泽东“左”倾政治中的认识论和思想体系看毛的错误所在》;澳大 In October 1986, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, organized a symposium to mark the 10th anniversary of Mao Zedong's death. A group of well-known scholars engaged in Mao Zedong's studies in the West attended the conference and submitted papers. The paper by Brantley Vermack, a associate professor of political science at Northern Illinois University in the United States, reads “Mao's mistake lies in Mao's” leftist “epistemology and ideological system.”