Mao moved China closer to real communism

Mao moved China closer to real communism.
Stalin wasn't bad but he was never the intellectual Mao was.

Mao's experiment in decentralized popular mass communism is excellent evidence that communism works.

People claim that the cultural revolution was a disaster. They claim China destroyed history.
False, numerous archaeological sites such as Mawangdui were discovered and preserved and peasants were educated on how to identify historical relics if they were to come across them in the field.

They claim science and learning was destroyed.
False, China sent its first space satellite and created high yield hybrid rice. While building schools in rural areas.

They claim the economy was a disaster.
Yet, growth rates were higher then than in the reform era. Rural areas actually had growth rather than decline as they do now.

Sources:
Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution : science and technology in modern China / edited by Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock.

The battle for China's past : Mao and the Cultural Revolution / Mobo Gao.

The Unknown Cultural Revolution
Life and Change in a Chinese Village / Dongping Han

If you go to rural China you will find it is these people who (according to wealthy Chinese urban elite expatriates and Western scholars who have never been to rural China) are supposedly his victims, who are most supportive of Mao and the cultural revolution and hate the reforms.

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Rewriting marxist theory to justify revisionism does not make you an intellectual.

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Telling peasants to produce pig iron in their back garden is perhaps one of the most retarded ideas ever. Mao was fine as a general but should never have been put in charge of the economy.

Do you deny that one of the goals of Communism shouldn't be to completely abolish the divide between town and country? It was an attempt, even if ill fate to bring industry to the country side.

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NazBols don't claim to be Marxists.

I think Mao and Stalin were largely on the same page but their respective practices and ideas represented the differences between Russian and Chinese society.

Both were truly great communist leaders who should be praised. Unfortunately there are far too many liberals on this board who are unwilling to abandon their idealism for real tangible communism.

China is still moving decidedly towards full communism, remember, progress is, in the last analysis, not lineal but DIALECTICAL. The master dialecticians at party headquarters know what they are doing.

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To his credit ecology was in its infancy. Also the capitalists were committing similarly horrendous acts of environmental destruction in their own countries at that time as well.

tbqh capitalism has fucked the environment in ways orders of magnitude greater than anything Mao ever did. The 600 gorillion killed by the Great Leap Forward will by drops in an ocean compared to the mass extinction brought about by capitalist-driven global warming.

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How to evaluate a left-wing ideology: The less is has in common with Maoism, the better.

Go home reddit.

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Mao is the greatest leader of the 20th century.

This.

Maoism is Social Democracy without a welfare check and with more pollution.

he was a good friend

This^^^
Don't fall for sparrow propaganda comrades.

Mao is love, Mao is life.

Top fucking Kek.

is this supposed to say US Democrats?

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