Life expectancy doubled under Mao. Foot binding was ended. He was instrumental in the victory of China against Japanese imperialism. China rapidly industrialized under Mao. Without Mao, there certainly would have been someone else playing his historic role, but the important factor is that it was indeed Mao that led China to liberation and helped set in stone the modern prosperous China.
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copingwithelmons@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Why do they even like Mao so much? Dude was only good for helping them get the country. Literally nothing else.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Life expectancy doubled
After a few hiccups.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Same reason Americans love George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Adam Smith.
He’s a Founding Father of the modern nation, a spiritual progenitor of their economic philosophy, and a guy with tons of media to play up as nostalgia bait for the Chinese equivalent MAGA nationalists.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
I’ve never understood the stereotype that Americans idolize a bunch of old white guys from the 1700s.
Most people I know don’t give a single shit about them, and the ones that do are very vocal about their dislike of them.
It’s pretty widely accepted that they were all garbage human beings by today’s standards.
If you mean Republicans idolizing them but only in specific circumstances that support bigoted worldviews, then sure.
guycls@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah, doesn’t look like you guys are beating the stereotype of supporting garbage people
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kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
What, because we haven’t torn down a massive stone monument from 1941? The vast majority of us weren’t even born when it was completed. Are you going to condemn Chinese people for not blowing up the Terracotta Army?
pleiades@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Have you ever talked to a Texan, or anyone over 50?
zeejoo@thelemmy.club 16 hours ago
There’s kinda a large gap between Jefferson being a sexual predator and Mao allowing 25+ million people to starve in the great leap forward. Definitely feels like one requires ignoring a lot more in order to defend.
psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
It wasn’t as if he intentionally caused the famine.
There’s abusing someone and owning slaves vs. accidentally shooting yourself in the leg, and by “yourself” I mean the whole country that you started.
zeejoo@thelemmy.club 3 hours ago
No, but he did intentionally Sanction the murders of millions of people. Still wanna compare the two?
copingwithelmons@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Okay, makes sense.
He’s meant to be a legendary figure.
yucandu@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The average Americans have never heard of Adam Smith.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Going to have to see your homework on that one