Unfortunately Mao was an idiot surrounded by sycophants who killed more of his countrymen through incompetent policies than Stalin did with his purges.
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wombat@hexbear.net 9 hours ago
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
buttfarts@lemy.lol 8 hours ago
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 hours ago
People always say Mao killed so many people, but when pressed for how they just say “famine”. If that’s the standard, how many people does world capitalism kill? Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good🤷♂️
buttfarts@lemy.lol 3 hours ago
A famine caused because of his agricultural reforms such as telling farmers to plant their seeds twice as close together to double yield. Or how about killing all the sparrows who were thought to be pests but actually ate the insects. Then when all the crops fail to roll in after harvest you send goon squads out to bully and arrest farmers for “hoarding food” when in fact the crops failed partly because he enforced these asinine policies.
Now if they could recognize shits going wrong then that would help but nobody wants to tell Mao he was wrong about some of his “great leap foward” reforms so they just continue to scapegoat and abuse the now starving farmers.
He did a lot of good things but if your fail to look at things then you are just a fanboy propagandist for autocracy.
BeamBrain@hexbear.net 6 hours ago
buttfarts@lemy.lol 3 hours ago
Totally not because the whole world industrialized and modern medicine made its way into China. This trend could be in spite of Mao and not because of him.
Correlation does not equal causation.
isa41@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Unfortunately Mao was an idiot surrounded by sycophants who killed more of his countrymen through incompetent policies than Stalin did with his purges.
Unfortunately burgerlanders are idiots surrounded by propaganda made by the empire that killed more people the world over through cruelty and policies of greed and exploitation than even Churchill did with his genocide of Indians.
You are an idiot. Mao was a brilliant and resolute (though imperfect) revolutionary that saved millions of people, pulled even more out of poverty, and set China on the path to becoming the superpower that it is. Surrounded by sycophants? lol, he famously called on the people not to blindly accept party bureaucracy and to fight injustice even when it means fighting his own communist party.
bigboopballs@hexbear.net 7 hours ago
liberal detected
Ithorian@hexbear.net 7 hours ago
Kuori@hexbear.net 6 hours ago
read a book you dipshit
Icecreamface@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Haha
propter_hog@hexbear.net 9 hours ago
based