He was so cool desuhttps://youtu.be/4Zv25RCLios
>almost destroys ChinaI agree. Based.
>One of the greatest guerilla fighters of the 20th Century>Also one of the most singularly retarded leaders of the 20th CenturyHe'd be a lot better remembered if he let someone else take the reigns and he just stayed a war hero. What I find interesting about him is that for a totalitarian dictator he really doesn't seem to have been that actively malicious, he just had the most butt-fuckingly stupid policies imaginable and never foresaw their potentially negative consequences. Even in the case of the Red Guards he felt like they ended up going out of control.
He killed a lot of chinks, sure but that's negated by the fact that he looks like a tranny.
>>17435254He was an idealistic guerrilla leader and I think some of the big disasters like the Great Leap Forward might have been him trying to apply some of the things that worked well for inspiring cadres to fight in a war to steel production. It's about using your willpower and believing in the cause. It's very military. But the system as they had built it didn't allow for negative information to filter up the chain, so the local party officials were pushing these programs, which destabilized the food supply (because they pulled workers off the farm to make steel, and the agricultural cooperatives were also reporting bumper harvests which was either not happening, or where it did, they'd eat all the food because the party papers were reporting that food production is maxxing up all over). Then before you know it, tens of millions of people are starving to death, and starving peasants are roaming the countryside looking for food, and then the communist control system that was set up to put down counter-revolutionary uprisings after they came to power were like "oh shit" and then started machine gunning them.
