A few people online think everything bad that has happened in China is fake news by america or smth and that mao zendong was a kind hearted progressive leader that was incredible, when you bring up he let millions starve they just say “atleast he wasnt hitler” am I missing something, am I stupid and retarded snd know nothing abt history and China. I have a friend who lives in China and He views China in a really positive light and fully trusts his government even tho he needs a vpn to talk to me and is genuinely scared of me using his friends qq account to criticise the Chinese government bc hed get arrested. Ofc theres alot good about China and id love to go there someday im just a bit confused why ppl in the west think its some utopia free from capitalism, racism and has lgbt rights or wtv
the common thing said about Mao Zedon is he was 70% good, 30% bad. that’s actually what chinese school teach about him, as well
he, but it’s also important to keep in mind it’s not like he was the only to blame on how it went down like that, was largely responsible for the great famine from the failure of the agricultural advancement from many factors like not considering the lack of forge training and high pressures of performance on the people’s communes; however, china was always very prone to famines as you can see in their history and chances are any other leader of the revolution would’ve ended up in a similar position. anothe major critique is he went overboard with his theory of the “forever revolution” and ended up eliminating party members under the excuse of being “counter revolutionary”
however, it’s also very important to remember what great he brought. he lead a revolution in a country where pseudo-feudalism was still in place, in a country of farmland in a world where every other country was already industrialized. after his rise into power, his famous purge of landlords incredibly helped chinese people into being able to afford an home, he lowered the cost of living and he raised the educational standards. without Mao, it’s VERY likely today china wouldn’t be a massive superpower rivaling the USA; they would be a third world country plagued by extreme poverty and likely split off into different sub countries