Mao Zedong, A Communist (And Arguably A) Dictator

Chairman Mao Zedong

How did he die?

Mao Zedong died of a heart attack on the 9th of September, 1976, in Beijing, China.

What political party was he part of?

He was the Former Chairman of the Communist Party of China.

What were his beliefs?

He created his own form of beliefs known as Maoism, the followers known as Maoists.

When the Chinese communists took over in 1948, they bought a new form of Marxism, renamed after their leader. His thought was complicated, a Marxist type of analysis combined with the permanent foundations of the Chinese people's thought and culture.

What were his goals?

Created by Mao, the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, it is stated the goal was to preserve ‘true’ Communist ideology in the country.

When did his reign of Maoism end?

Although many of the people of China are capitalists and the country has adopted some capitalist laws, the country officially is still communist.

Where was he from and when was he born?

Mao was from Shaoshan, China and born on the 26th of December, 1893.

What were his original job-related goals?

Mao studied to become a teacher so he could have an income and then became a politician

after being inspired by his idols and writing countless documents and publishing them.

What kind of life did he live before becoming a politician?

He came from a peasant and attended a normal school while working in his families fields.

His mother was a Buddhist who was willing to support him, but he experienced frequent arguments with his very strict father. Mao went to Changsha, the capital of Hunan where he learned a great deal about politics. Attending Peking University with very little money, Mao had to work while he studied. After graduation, he returned to Hunan and served as a primary school principal. Outside of his work, he spent countless hours publishing political documents. In 1908 he married his cousin Luo Yigu due to an arranged marriage by their parents, although Mao never saw her as his wife and never had any children with her, she passed away in 1910. He then married Yang K'ai-hu in 1920 and had three children with her, but she was executed, ten years later, by Chinese Nationalists. He married a second time in 1930 to a woman named Ho Tzu-Chen and had six more children, but he later divorced her in 1937 and then married another woman, Chiang Ch'ing.

Did he have any close family?

Mao’s mother and father were named Mao Yichang and Wen Qimei. His siblings were named

Mao Zemin and Mao Zetan. Mao also had his three sons with his second wife, Mao Anying,

Mao Anlong and Mao Anqing. He had his children with Ho Tzu-Chen, his daughter Mao Jinhua

(or Yang Yueheu), his son Mao Anhong, his daughter Li Min (Mao Jiaojiao) and two more sons and another daughter, and finally his last and forever wife Chiang Ch’ing, who never had children with him.

Why do people argue about him being a dictator?

It was the ‘Great Leap Forward’ that caused people to argue about this. Mao’s Great Leap
Forward was designed to largely improve the countries production. What it truly ended up doing was costing

millions of lives. Famine and poor harvests wound up crippling the country. Zedong lost power for a short time. When he regained the power he leads the ‘Cultural Revolution’. This continued even after Mao’s death and caused many many more lives to be lost.


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