Since you asked and despite claims of some skeptics here, a Maoist China is, in fact, on the rise:
1. ". . . China . . . is in the midst of Maoist revival fostered in no small part by Chinese president Xi Jinping since he took on the party leadership role in 2012. In the last few months, Xi has consolidated power around himself to an unprecedented level since Mao Zedong. Xi’s moves—from scrapping the presidential term limits to adding his name to both the party’s and the state’s constitutions—have raised concerns about the return of one-man rule and personality cult of the Maoist era, a time of socially traumatic social upheaval. Mao’s Great Leap Forward collective agriculture experiment is believed to have led to tens of millions of deaths, and was followed by the decade-long Cultural Revolution—a mass movement to reinvigorate socialism and also weed out Mao’s opponents. It led to the deaths of as many as two million people, according to some estimates.
“Despite the toll of that time, at the grass-roots level, too, China has seen the rise of a ‘neo-Maoist’ movement, as many grow nostalgic for the idea of a simpler, more equal society than is visible in today’s China. Every year, tens of thousands of Mao devotees make a pilgrimage to Mao’s hometown, Shaoshan village in central China, to celebrate his birth . . . .” (“Maoism is Big in China, but Mao’s Grandson Isn’t, " by Zheping Huang, Quartz, 7 May 2018”)
2. “[While] after the 1940s (except perhaps during the Cultural Revolution) the crucial decisions were not [Chairman Mao’s] alone. . . . [L]ooking at the whole period from the foundation of the CCP in 1921 to Mao’s death in 1976, one can fairly regard Mao Zedong as the principal architect of the new China.”l (“Mao Zedong—Chinese Leader," by Stuart Reynolds Schram, Emeritus Professor of Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. and author of “The Thought of Mao Tse-tung and Others,” Encyclopedia Britannica)
Since you asked and despite claims of some skeptics here, a Maoist China is, in fact, on the rise:
1. ". . . China . . . is in the midst of Maoist revival fostered in no small part by Chinese president Xi Jinping since he took on the party leadership role in 2012. In the last few months, Xi has consolidated power around himself to an unprecedented level since Mao Zedong. Xi’s moves—from scrapping the presidential term limits to adding his name to both the party’s and the state’s constitutions—have raised concerns about the return of one-man rule and personality cult of the Maoist era, a time of socially traumatic social upheaval. Mao’s Great Leap Forward collective agriculture experiment is believed to have led to tens of millions of deaths, and was followed by the decade-long Cultural Revolution—a mass movement to reinvigorate socialism and also weed out Mao’s opponents. It led to the deaths of as many as two million people, according to some estimates.
“Despite the toll of that time, at the grass-roots level, too, China has seen the rise of a ‘neo-Maoist’ movement, as many grow nostalgic for the idea of a simpler, more equal society than is visible in today’s China. Every year, tens of thousands of Mao devotees make a pilgrimage to Mao’s hometown, Shaoshan village in central China, to celebrate his birth . . . .” (“Maoism is Big in China, but Mao’s Grandson Isn’t, " by Zheping Huang, Quartz, 7 May 2018”)
2. “[While] after the 1940s (except perhaps during the Cultural Revolution) the crucial decisions were not [Chairman Mao’s] alone. . . . [L]ooking at the whole period from the foundation of the CCP in 1921 to Mao’s death in 1976, one can fairly regard Mao Zedong as the principal architect of the new China.”l (“Mao Zedong—Chinese Leader," by Stuart Reynolds Schram, Emeritus Professor of Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. and author of “The Thought of Mao Tse-tung and Others,” Encyclopedia Britannica)
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