Mao Zedong was the greatest revolutionary leader in China, but he may not be a great example for governing a country successfully. He did not make China a better country after all, in fact, he ruined it. Mao Zedong had a negative impact on China because he ruined the economy by trying to improve China’s agriculture and to spur industrialization, took away civil rights by limiting freedom of speech, movements, or thoughts, and destroyed Chinese culture by attempting to purge China of its past.
Mao Zedong was the chairman of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1959. He was an ambitious and consistent man which made him available to lead the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his died in 1976. Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward" and “Cultural Revolution” were ineffective and had disastrous consequences. But most of his goals, however, were pretty successful. These goals make China seemed to be a strong
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He wanted everyone to be equal, which means that everyone should be dressing alike, having education like everybody did, and that everyone worked for improving the state and not for themselves. Mao ZeDong believed that people would be more successful this way and that it would make more progress.
The attempt to re-assert his authority was known as “The Cultural Revolution”. Mao ZeDong’s first target was to burn down the Buddhist temple, churches, and mosques. All of these were razed to the ground or converted to other uses. He believed that religions will interrupt people’s minds and that his authority might be threatened. Furthermore, sacred texts, as well as Confucian writings, were burned along with religious statues and other artwork. All in all, any object associated with China’s pre-revolutionary past was forced to be