Based autist
Happy Birthday Comrade Mao
Nathan Flores
Brandon Peterson
Happy birbday.
Evan Reed
==Fish cannot leave the water,
Nor melons leave the vines.
The revolutionary masses cannot do without the Communist Party.
Mao Zedong Thought is the sun that forever shines==
Noah Harris
some wish walk and fly but ok mao
Wyatt Thompson
Mao's Main accomplishment is obviously his part in the ending of Japanese Aggression and the overthrow the KMT goverment and the establishment of the PRC
While his main failings include the Disastorous great Leap forward and "4 pests campaign" along with his "Cultural Revolution" which saw economic Paralysation and breakdown of Socialist democracy and a Cult of Personality developing around Mao himself
Hunter Perez
Are you daft?
John Foster
He turned a poor agrarian country into a even more poor agrarian country + 100 million deaths from famines. The only good thing he achieved was that he is the best warning example of how not to do communism.(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
Dylan Taylor
Guess we were all wrong guys, communism hasn't killed 100 million people. Mao himself has.
Michael Williams
Honestly I'm not very well read on the subject but I want to throw a spicy idea. Once I read that Bordiga (I'm not a leftcom but this idea was interesting to me) regarded him as not a communist, but more as a romantic-era national revolutionary. From my big ignorance I still think this has some reason. I don't think Mao was totally not communist/socialist, he did collectivize stuff, but in some sense he was more a "regenerator of china" than an internationalist proletariat revolutionary. China never even tried to build a comintern, right? It seems more like a mix of the qing dream of the chinese way to development mixed with some "social" stuff. In the end Mao's china just by a quick look at serious history is a whole lot better than imperial or republic china, but I do think he was more of a national regeneration figure than a "real" communist.
Also I'd like to know more about the great leap forward. I've heard two stories about it. The first is your typical, bourgoise version that mao killed a trillion gorillion. The other is that there were some fuckuppery in death recording or something and so the great leap forward is wrongly exaggerated, also in bad faith. Is there some kind or good, in depth research about it?
Bentley Reyes
That's an interesting outlook on Mao. Tbh that "analysis" can be used on many socialist revolutionaries if you think about it.