Was the Great Leap Forward a genocide, or just bad policy?
>>76687759
>caring about what happened to chinks
kek
>>76687759
iirc it's was an extremely bad policy. Mao didn't have any intention of killing people.
Same sort of thing is happening in Venezuela now.
>socialists
>millennials want this
>>76687759
kek.
>orders sparrows killed.
>results in nation wide starvation.
more like a great leap backwards into the stone age. Mao is fucking retarded and the proof communism doesn't work.
Not a full fledge genocide, but Mao certainly didn't care about the cost in human lives.
>>76687759
A compensating demagogue with fanatical followers removing everyone he doesn't like.
...this is sounding familiar?
>>76687759
Incredibly idiotic polices, like encouraging farmers to smelt their tools in backyard furnaces to make steel, resulting in a lot of crappy steal and farmers having no tools to farm.
>>76688005
That's more the Cultural Revolution though.
Both
>>76687759
It was necessary and the right policy for the time. Mao had far seeing vision.
>>76688108
Yeah nah you're right.
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism worked well at gaining power, was pretty terrible in power.
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