Mao Zedong: Hero or Tyrant?

Your opinions on Mao...

He had good intentions but my knowledge of him is very little.

I visited southern China and Hong Kong during summer last year. In one of the houses in my uncle's birthplace on the South Chinese countryside (he doesn't live there anymore) hang a picture of Mao. Well, Mao's dead for about 35 years now, but people still see him as a hero...

See that indentation a bit after 1960? Thats the big leap forward.

ps: this is the global figure.

Comrade Mao was betrayed by his successors and only the gang of four should have taken over, However my knowledge of Mao is very limited only to the great leap forward and the Barefoot doctor's program.

Mao was a tyrant, although the Chinese don't see it that way. They blame all his shortcomings on his wife.

Which is fucking bullshit, the Communist nation of China was hijacked by Hua Guofeng a disgusting pig.

Good intentions, bad result. He didn't really understand as much past his ideology when he should have.

But awesome portrait

Untrue.
I blame the gweilo. LOL.

I think he will be the next person I write a report about, as I know very little about him.

Now all rise for his Chairman ship.

Damn you, Deng Xiaopeng!

Man if only Che were here.

I don't get why someone like Soviet just didn't feed this forum questions to Che and thus have Che argue through Soviet.

Unless you are calling all Chinese to be incompetent, I contest this statement.
That any leader can well... lead is a testimate to SOME ability.
I am pretty confident that the vast majority of people have little to no ability to take up the burden of leadership, no matter how easily fate slides it into their hands.

Ah yes the great leap forward.

Let us all debate that.

Mao was a good rebel leader and fought against the corrupt kuomintang but was a bad national leader after taking power so I like rebel Mao way more then when he actually took power.

I went to visit Mao's Mausoleum in Beijing in 2009. Tons of people queued up and many people placed flowers next to his statue. Many Chinese agree with the CCP's 70% good, 30% bad assessment it seems. Mao was a far, far better revolutionary leader than a national one, as a national leader he was terrible, but as a revolutionary leader he was great (leading the Communist forces from near defeat during the Long March to victory in 1949 has to be an achievement)

I need read more about Mao, although his revolution was highjacked by the wrong side.