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Ideologies / Stalinist-Marxist / Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1893–1976 · China · Chairman

Mao Zedong

Continuous revolution

Peasant communism and permanent upheaval.

Reformist Stalinist-Marxist →
Economic−96
SocialistMarket
Governance+96
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Social+40
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The founder of the People's Republic, whose peasant-based communism, Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution remade China at staggering human cost.

social

Radically anti-traditional — the Cultural Revolution's war on the 'four olds.'

economic

Collectivised agriculture and industry; the Great Leap's command economy.

governance

Totalitarian one-party rule and recurring mass mobilisation campaigns.

Notable for
  • Founded the People's Republic of China, 1949
  • The Great Leap Forward
  • The Cultural Revolution
maoismcontinuous-revolutionpeasant-communism
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