No question Mao is the strong of the strongest leader in recent Chinese, if not the world history. Whether China would be better off or worse off without Mao is a debate that will last till the end of the world. We cannot go back and re-live history.
The tragedy of Mao was that he was betrayed by his comrades. Look at the first line of active leadership up to before the Cultural Revolution, Liu, Zhou, Deng, Chen Yun, Peng Chun. Except for Zhou who was sitting on the fence, Liu, Deng & Peng were all for capitalist system. Mao’s collective socialist system was never given a chance to work in his time. It was interfered by the ultra leftist influence which resulted in 70 million unnatural deaths. If those so-called capitalist roaders were sincerely assisting Mao in correcting the left leaning mistakes of the collective system, mass starvation could be averted or at least minimized. Mao was in minority in his insistence on the socialist system.
Mao has no one to trust and was reluctantly to turn to Jiang Ching, Chang Chun-jiao, Yao Wen-yuan and alike to initiate Cultural Revolution.
The tragedy of Mao was that he was betrayed by his comrades. Look at the first line of active leadership up to before the Cultural Revolution, Liu, Zhou, Deng, Chen Yun, Peng Chun. Except for Zhou who was sitting on the fence, Liu, Deng & Peng were all for capitalist system. Mao’s collective socialist system was never given a chance to work in his time. It was interfered by the ultra leftist influence which resulted in 70 million unnatural deaths. If those so-called capitalist roaders were sincerely assisting Mao in correcting the left leaning mistakes of the collective system, mass starvation could be averted or at least minimized. Mao was in minority in his insistence on the socialist system.
Mao has no one to trust and was reluctantly to turn to Jiang Ching, Chang Chun-jiao, Yao Wen-yuan and alike to initiate Cultural Revolution.