Overall he was good. The Chinese were dirt poor and were colonized by Europe. Mao and the implementation of his ideology freed China from foreign control, and improved lives for a billion people. Unfortunately, the communists killed millions of people under Mao during the cultural revolution.
After the neo-liberal reformations of Deng Xiaoping (which dissolved the state-communist system), poverty rose and living standards stagnated.
Americans who were aware of the civil war in China, had a bad reaction to the Mao Zedong victory in China. They saw a growing communist movement they deemed to be dangerous. This view was enhanced when North Korea was aided by China in the Korean War.
He got power before he made all the bad decisions
Students had to worship Mao and read Communist texts. They had to report on the bad things they have done during the day and even report on other students.
Most Americans were stunned
It was proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung a criminal man a very bad and evil man which was a brutal dictator and killed 70 million people during his despotic rule. And completely destroyed the Chinese culture.
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This is a highly subjective question. Many Chinese harbor a mix of both admiration and disdain for Mao Zedong, believing that he did the country a great deal of good by ending the corrupt rule of the Kuomintang, reforming the feudal system of land ownership, and ending the last vestiges of imperialist control over Mainland China. In this, he has become more of a figure of Chinese nationalism than one of international Socialist revolution. However, the catastrophes of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution can be laid at his feet. As one ambivalent man once told me, "Mao was clearly a great man, as only a great man can make the sort of mistakes that he did!" My personal judgment is that China today is, in some respects, slightly better off because of Mao and the CCP than it would be today if the KMT had won the civil war, and slightly worse off in others.
At the moment people in China are not starving, China is a developed country.
Good Reason: the cultural revolution, where mao got rid of chinas old confucian past, gave women an equal status in chinese society, opened china to the West and expanded chinas econmy. and because of chinas expanding econmy, chinas econmy grew at an annual rate of 11%-15% per year. bad reason: mao had a plan called the great leap forward, which he thought would help china, but it ended up killing 40 million chinese people due to famine. (more than Stalin and Hitler Combined)
it is good and bad
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