This is Blanquism, not Marxism-Leninism. MLs aren't Blanquists.
Should I have used the term "vanguard" then? Because that is absolutely the defining feature of Leninism, that differs it from other forms of Marxism.
This is also an incorrect assumption about Marxism-Leninism.
The Russian bourgeois state and the French bourgeois state were two very different places. Lenin, Stalin, and Mao attempted to circumvent the part of dialectical materialism that required capitalism to build the means of production, by having the state do it. France had already built the means of industrial production by 1868.
This isn't a thing.
We don't call Stalinism a strain of Leninism normally, but it absolutely is a derivative of it. Whatever failures that came about, and however flawed it was, it is nonetheless a type of Marxism that came from Stalin's proximity to Lenin. I'm an anarchist, and I'm even willing to admit that Stalinism is a bad form of communism.
Trotskyism is not a development of Marxism-Leninism, and international revolution is not a defining quality of it. What you describe here is more or less true for all communists.
How do you figure that Lenin's "heir-apparent" wouldn't have an ideology that is similar to Lenin's? Sure, international revolution is a part of communism in general, hence the USSR exporting communism for 80 years, but Trotskyists believed that it was far more important than developing communism in one nation.
This is not what MLM is about at all? Where did you even get this from?
From Mao himself?
"The present-day capitalist economy in China is a capitalist economy which for the most part is under the control of the People's Government and which is linked with the state-owned socialist economy in various forms and supervised by the workers. It is not an ordinary but a particular kind of capitalist economy, namely, a state-capitalist economy of a new type. It exists not chiefly to make profits for the capitalists but to meet the needs of the people and the state. True, a share of the profits produced by the workers goes to the capitalists, but that is only a small part, about one quarter, of the total. The remaining three quarters are produced for the workers (in the form of the welfare fund), for the state (in the form of income tax) and for expanding productive capacity (a small part of which produces profits for the capitalists). Therefore, this state-capitalist economy of a new type takes on a socialist character to a very great extent and benefits the workers and the state."
Selected Works of Mao Tsetung published by the Chinese Communist Party. Parentheses are his.
The entire book is a series of his dispatches to the Communist Party leadership, and at least a quarter of them deal with his Five-Year plans that were intended to collectivize the peasant laborers and build manufacturing.