Talk:Mao Zedong

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This is a beginning. I'll add more when i have time.Researcher 01:05, 10 October 2007 (EDT)

Removed author's commment from article re intentions as above. Susantalk to me 03:34, 10 October 2007 (EDT)

Sorry about that. The article is now finished, at least as much as I feel like writing. If people want to add more snark, it would make me happy. (I suck at writing snark, but I lov reading it.)Researcher 21:44, 11 October 2007 (EDT)
Removed the "under construction" tag, per Researcher's comments.

[edit] Mao and Chiang

I'm all for criticism of Chiang, but this should find its place in a seperate article about that guy. If you put it into the Mao article, it can easily be misunderstood as an attempt to whitewash the latter by presenting Chiang as a foil. Edit: I'm talking specifically about this rant, which'll just prolong the edit war, not criticism in general. Röstigraben (talk) 11:57, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

I second this motion. Researcher (talk) 04:37, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Death Count

"His rule from 1949 to 1976 is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people, making Mao the most prolific mass murderer in human history, ahead of Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin"

This isn't true at all and is only professed by right wing revisionist hacks like Dikotter, Bannister, Halliday and Chang who use massive data manipulation and fabrication to come up with such numbers. The "missing" rate in China, is actually between 3-11 million, though this ignores reasons why birth rate may drop or why people are missing, like mobilization, natural disaster, emigration etc etc. During the GLF China suffered the worst floods it had experienced in decades, this is never brought into account though. There is has been widespread research that shows that such death figures are largely fabricated and have zero basis in reality. The truth is, most people in them, didn't even exist. http://www.Chinastudygroup.net/blogs/eastwindwestwind/files/2009/08/patnaik-famine-measuring.pdf http://www.hkstrongwind.com/pdfs/EBook/The_Battle_for_Chinas_Past.pdf http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward

Such a number should be removed, it is right wing propaganda through and through - MN (talk) 02:27, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

[edit] Mao Zedong a philosopher?

Shouldn't he be considered a political philosopher? I mean, he did develop a communistic philosophy, called Maoism. Whether or not it works in practice is another story, but still, he should at least be considered a philosopher.--75.118.113.248 (talk) 10:25, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

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