Mao was "Anti-Imperialist" in words only. A complete fraud who signed on with US/NATO Imperialism - and is largely responsible for the demise of the Socialist Camp.
Thank you for your interesting comment. I think it is more accurate to say that Nikita Khrushchev was responsible for the demise of the socialist camp across much of the world. Khrushchev was the Mikhail Gorbachev of his generation, a CIA asset. That was the end of the USSR when Khrushchev came to power.
Mao had a lot of respect for Stalin, and even though Stalin was condescending to him because Mao believed in the possibility of achieving communism and socialism with peasants and not with only blue-collar and white-collar proletariat. But they got along, and Stalin built socialism in the USSR to a very high level in only one generation, which Mao did the same thing in China 1949-1976. He knew that Khrushchev was bad news. When Khrushchev gave his famous speech denouncing Stalin, he knew that was the end of the USSR. He really wanted nothing to do with the USSR at that point.
Mao was the catalyst that got the Soviets to leave during the Sino-Soviet split in 1960. Although the CIA was working very hard at making that happen on the Soviet side. But, Mao simply could not stomach working with Khrushchev knowing that he was destroying the Russian Revolution. Mao was principled, Khrushchev wasn't and the results were the USSR collapsed a generation later. And then of course, the Chinese Revolution, communism and socialism has just gone from strength to strength.
Mao did not sign on to US-NATO imperialism. In North Korea, China sacrificed 900,000 citizens to defeat the United States in Korea. It was Mao Zedong who made sure that Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong won in Southeast Asia, and the list goes on and on. It was Mao who pushed for the Bandung Accord in Indonesia. And like the Cubans and North Koreans, the PRC helped many revolutionary, movements in Africa and Asia.
Below is a collection of works about Mao Zedong that I, am including, that, you can, take a look at.
Thank you, Jeff
The Mao Encyclopedia for Dummies. Updated and it's all here: books, articles, movies, visuals. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240103
I've read Mao - been a communist for 55 years. I've just finished an excellent study of Mao by a Soviet author - Burlatsky - probably hard to find. He goes through the artificality (phoniness) of the various mass campaigns - including the so-called Cultural Revolution. When I toured China with an academic group in 1974 or 5 - they were in the midst of a campaign against Lin Piao and Confucious. Since we were meeting with academics and mid-level party people - I sought an explanation - you know, what does Lin Piao and Confucious have in common - I got zero help on that - just some BS about Lin being a "capitalist roader" - I don't think Confucious was a Capitalist Roader - haha - it was all a big joke - but, just as with the Cultural Revolution, it was nothing but a factional fight - ie, to get rid of the Internationalists in the party - and prepare the road for abject apostasy.
You mention the fraternal, internationalist support for Kerea - that was earlier.
Yes, they did sign on with US/NATO - that's why they supported Pinochet, invaded Viet Nam, and did everything possible to bring down the USSR - the "Main Enemy of the People of the World". As Stalin said rightly - Chinese leaders are "Radish Communists" - red on the outside, nationalists inside. I think that estimate was far too categorical though - there WERE loyal communists in the party, and the leadership. Those were made to wear the dunce cap - and driven out of power - sometimes executed.
Mao was "Anti-Imperialist" in words only. A complete fraud who signed on with US/NATO Imperialism - and is largely responsible for the demise of the Socialist Camp.
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Hi, David,
Thank you for your interesting comment. I think it is more accurate to say that Nikita Khrushchev was responsible for the demise of the socialist camp across much of the world. Khrushchev was the Mikhail Gorbachev of his generation, a CIA asset. That was the end of the USSR when Khrushchev came to power.
Mao had a lot of respect for Stalin, and even though Stalin was condescending to him because Mao believed in the possibility of achieving communism and socialism with peasants and not with only blue-collar and white-collar proletariat. But they got along, and Stalin built socialism in the USSR to a very high level in only one generation, which Mao did the same thing in China 1949-1976. He knew that Khrushchev was bad news. When Khrushchev gave his famous speech denouncing Stalin, he knew that was the end of the USSR. He really wanted nothing to do with the USSR at that point.
Mao was the catalyst that got the Soviets to leave during the Sino-Soviet split in 1960. Although the CIA was working very hard at making that happen on the Soviet side. But, Mao simply could not stomach working with Khrushchev knowing that he was destroying the Russian Revolution. Mao was principled, Khrushchev wasn't and the results were the USSR collapsed a generation later. And then of course, the Chinese Revolution, communism and socialism has just gone from strength to strength.
Mao did not sign on to US-NATO imperialism. In North Korea, China sacrificed 900,000 citizens to defeat the United States in Korea. It was Mao Zedong who made sure that Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong won in Southeast Asia, and the list goes on and on. It was Mao who pushed for the Bandung Accord in Indonesia. And like the Cubans and North Koreans, the PRC helped many revolutionary, movements in Africa and Asia.
Below is a collection of works about Mao Zedong that I, am including, that, you can, take a look at.
Thank you, Jeff
The Mao Encyclopedia for Dummies. Updated and it's all here: books, articles, movies, visuals. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240103
https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2024/01/03/the-mao-encyclopedia-for-dummies-updated-and-its-all-here-books-articles-movies-visuals-china-rising-radio-sinoland-240103/
I've read Mao - been a communist for 55 years. I've just finished an excellent study of Mao by a Soviet author - Burlatsky - probably hard to find. He goes through the artificality (phoniness) of the various mass campaigns - including the so-called Cultural Revolution. When I toured China with an academic group in 1974 or 5 - they were in the midst of a campaign against Lin Piao and Confucious. Since we were meeting with academics and mid-level party people - I sought an explanation - you know, what does Lin Piao and Confucious have in common - I got zero help on that - just some BS about Lin being a "capitalist roader" - I don't think Confucious was a Capitalist Roader - haha - it was all a big joke - but, just as with the Cultural Revolution, it was nothing but a factional fight - ie, to get rid of the Internationalists in the party - and prepare the road for abject apostasy.
You mention the fraternal, internationalist support for Kerea - that was earlier.
Yes, they did sign on with US/NATO - that's why they supported Pinochet, invaded Viet Nam, and did everything possible to bring down the USSR - the "Main Enemy of the People of the World". As Stalin said rightly - Chinese leaders are "Radish Communists" - red on the outside, nationalists inside. I think that estimate was far too categorical though - there WERE loyal communists in the party, and the leadership. Those were made to wear the dunce cap - and driven out of power - sometimes executed.