Mao Zedong Thesis

“He ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Lenin, Hitler & Churchill as one of the 20th century’s political titans” (Klein 272). Who? Mao Zedong… a dictator born on December 26, 1893 in Shaoshan Hunan Province in China. “Mao was the most influential adapter of Marxism to Asia, changing its focus from the urban proletariat to the peasantry which so often dominates Asian Societies & politics” (Klein 272). Mao Zedong’s rise to power, ruling years and achievements marked China with both prosperous and unsuccessful years.

When Mao was young, his relationship with his father was rough, observers think this relationship had to do with Mao’s life “as a rebel and iconoclast” (Klein 272). In addition, Mao was also seen as a “natural rebel” since young. As he grew older, he became a soldier in the Chinese Revolution in 1911. After Mao graduated from school and went to college, he became a teacher and this stage

“All power grows out of the barrel of a gun” stated Mao Zedong (Lynch). How do you think someone will act if they think the same way as Zedong about how power is seized? Well, there are not that many possibilities since when one has an idea in one’s head no one will be able to change it even though it is not right. Without being conscious of this, Mao killed around 70 million people, maybe not directly however through other ways such as famine, execution, and labour. In addition, “The first time the People’s Liberation Army had been turned on the people, ” was when Mao was the dictator. He created something that came to be known as “A shocking counter-revolutionary rebellion…rated as the biggest lie since the communists came to power in 1949” (Jowett). Moreover during his reign, everyone perceived as a threat to Mao’s power was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. He even taught kids to scare the people who went against his