Mao Zedong

Redpill me about this man and the tibetan genocide please

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There was no genocide, but it was an aggressive cultural assimilation push. It was pretty pragmatic as Mao both tried to gain legitimacy as a successor state to ROC by conquering claimed territory and try to pre-emptive strike a possible enemy/future satellite state to America. The cultural assimilation happened because Mao knew a multicultural approach in conquered territory doesn't work.

He stoped revisionism and told deng xioping to fuck off

The Great Leap Forward was fucktarded and didn't work causing millions to starve. Then once China began to recover he called on young people who were taught in their schools to revere him as a God to attack anyone they deemed to be acting in a counter revolutionary way (which pretty much meant anyone they wanted to). All the while Mao was having dance parties with Western music back at his mansion.

I'm going to guess you have no experience working for a company where the boss is surrounded by yes men who are looking after their own positions that glaring problems in the company are never brought up because the boss has no idea they even exist

Miss me yet?

You're an idiot. Famines have always existed in China. It's only thanks to the progress made during the great leap forward that there are no more famines in China.

I want Jason Unruhe to stay out of this board.

Not really. Chiang wasn't any more noble, and considerably more incompetent, which takes some doing.

Mao was trying to rid China of its old culture to make the Chinese people into superhumans capable of resisting the West without being shackled by backwards cultural shit. China was an extremely superstitious and backwards culture before Mao. Even neighboring countries like Korea and Japan are now more superstitious than China.

This was Mao's greatest gift to China, even if he didn't manage to fully implement it.

>the tibetan genocide
That's a myth.

Mao exported the food he'd been "requisiting" from the farmers, causing them to starve because he needed money to make China industrialise and through those means become a superpower on par with Soviet and the US. In several of his quotes and proclamations it`s made quite clear he didn`t give half a shit about any of his people.

The """Great""" leap """"""""forward"""""" itself was an unprecedented disaster. One of his greater failures under this was to make the peasants make steel in their backyards with makeshift ovens and so naturally the "steel" produced by these means were largely useless of pig iron quality useless for both export and industrial production. The cost of this completely mental project was insumountable and was essentially the equivelant of throwing precious money into the sea, he was a literal madman.

To put the GLF a bit more into perspective, Mao was applying the principles he had used during the years of civil war. These principles had helped him prevail against all odds, hadn't they? Obviously fighting a civil war != industrialising a country, but Mao didn't just wake up one morning with the idea of the Great Leap Forward.

And as for the whole "starving the countryside to fuel industrialisation", that was precisely one of the flaws of the CCP's strategy that Mao was vocal about. The whole point of the GLF was to avoid the countryside/industrial city dichotomy that had been seen, for example, during Stalin's five-year plans

>starts China on its way to superpower status
>industrialises country
>removes the foreign imperialist elements from Chinese society that had humiliated it for centuries
>destroys bourgeois elements of Chinese culture
>removes warlords and landlords

He was pretty based.

>equal rights and income for women
>decide to develope nuke before it is not cool
>fucked up during his late years, The Great Leap Forward and Culture Revolution shit

And now people use China as their statistics poster child for their "caplitalism has lifted X amount of people out of poverty" talking points but still people don't give the big Z any credit.

If mao quit his job after 1956, he would be as great as George Washington. But he fucked up in his late years. Oh, boy, he is complicated.

Tibetan Genocide is just a myth made up by butthurt exiled Tibetan slave owners.

Before CCP got there, those slavers and monks were doing horrible shit to the slaves. Many Tibetan buddaism ritural artifacts are made from dead slaves.
like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapala

>now people use China as their statistics poster child for their "caplitalism has lifted X amount of people out of poverty" talking points
They don't have much choice. South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa alone don't paint a very bright picture. Without China's rise, global poverty curves would look very flat indeed.

Aggressive cultural assimilation falls under the definition of genocide

If the Nazis had only asked the Jews to speak German and salute the Fuhrer, we wouldn't have made such a fuss about them.

That's unrelated but alright

This desu. Mao was a mean sonofabitch who crushed millions under his boot but goddamn it drives me up the wall when I hear this meme that he was incompetent or that China would be where it is now without him

I don't think most people grasp just how much of a traumatized, gang-raped, mugged and left to die in an alley basket case China was in the early 20th century

If they aren't superstitious now, then why are they shilling their old "medicine" so much and telling people to eat tiger penises and rhinoceros testicles to cure impotence?

Another thing people tend to overlook is that he hasn't done much worse than any dynasty founder before him. Virtually all of them started with purges of the previous elites, sweeping land reforms, rewriting of history usually accompanied by cultural destruction, restructuring society along new (or old) ideological lines etc

Yes, I even heard some primitives still pray to their absurd deities.

>China literally stayed Africa tier poor until the syphilitic madman died and Xiopeng started to fix things up
>the part of China that wasn't run by an insane despot managed to actually become quite good
>cucks still defend anyone who seems powerful because MUH STRONG LEADER

pls die

hope ur trolling.

>China would be where it is now without him

It would likely be far better off if literally any of his seconds, Zhou Enlai, Liue Shaoqi or hell even Lin Biao had taken the reins before the 100 blossoming campaign was initiated, anything after that (and arguably everything before that) was just a terrifying diaster with no equal in the history of statesmanshp.

>Famines have always existed in China.
No.

"That one famine that affects one area in China" is the usual Chinese famine. The GLF was the whole fucking country.
Whoever brings China to united rule will make it a superpower status. Not because of some Commies n shiet.

Mao killed old China.

Deng molded a new China.