He was not considered an Absolute Leader. He held tremendous respect until he lost it from mistakes he made during the Cultural Revolution, and gradually lost political power and influence until his death. As someone in the US Empire, much of his writing on Dialectical Materialism and Party Work are immensely valuable, among other works. Nobody is denying the mistakes of Mao, we are denying the Great Man Theory aspect of your analysis that pins Mao as some absolute leader despite clearly being ousted once his policies were no longer popular.
As for Deepseek, it refrains from political discussion in general.
I don’t think Mao was a great man in the Thomas Carlyle sense, I think he was very powerful man who was at some point an absolute leader. I guess we just disagree on that point which is fine. Also when was Mao ousted exactly and where can I read about this because everything I have read Mao remained the chairman until his death. Deep seek has no problems talking talking about politics it doesn’t however want to talk about any Chinese politicians. I just tested it out.
What is an “absolute leader” if his policies were not accepted absolutely and his power was systematically weakened later in life? Mao held many positions throughout his life in the CPC, and was Chairman of the CPC until death, but more major positions like Premier were held by other figures, and his influence over the party waned as time went on within the positions he did retain. For instance, he stepped down as President in 1959.
He retained massive influence, but his influence was greater earlier on, and the influence of others rose as time went on. The CPC’s current evaluation of Mao is along the lines of “70% good, 30% bad.” They also, however, refuse to take the road of Kruschev with Stalin, which ended up contributing to the destruction of the Soviet Union.
I think there was a point when if Mao said jump you asked how high. I’m sure this wasn’t the case at all times and if you can give me some cool reading suggestions I’ll gladly check it out. I just think that sadly power dynamics like this can develop in political organisations no matter what ideology the members hold. If you really want to know my crazy beliefs it’s that hyper intelligence may not be an evolutionary beneficial trait, but who knows maybe I’m wrong maybe humanity will survive the complete destruction of earths ecosystems and global heating of 3-4 degrees which I think we will easily hit by 2100.
People respected Mao greatly due to his effectiveness and competence as a leader. That’s why he retained the positions he did until the very end, and why the Cultural Revolution was carried out. People listened to him because they trusted him and through experience knew he was competent. He wasn’t unopposed, nor was he the only leader, there were many other positions that held more direct influence.
As for climate change, it’s certainly happening, but the degree to which we can mitigate the most disastrous effects is rising due to countries like the PRC making it a top priority to combat.
Let’s see the whole carbon balance of the earth is changing instead of earth being a carbon sink it’s slowly becoming a carbon pump. We are loosing huge swathes of Forrest methane ice crystals in the artic and Antarctic are starting to thaw. It also turns out there is a whole lot more methane trapped under artic glaciers than we thought and those are all melting. I think the next 8 years are going to show that we hit the 1.5 degree target already, that’s like 70 years ahead of schedule. At some point we are going to try geoengineering whether we like it or not. I do agree that the PRC definitely takes climate change seriously but there are still more radical policy solutions that they should consider like not engaging in commercial fishing for 10-20 years if we still want to have any fish in the ocean.
Oh yeah Mao was definitely opposed people plotted against him all the time. Shit like that happens in every single political party. I’m an extremely pessimistic and cynical person, communism doesn’t get a pass from me. I’d still rather live in a country that took climate change and economic development with an eye on trying to help the poorest in society as seriously as China does, but I definitely appreciate the information freedom I get in the west even though that shit is slowly being eroded as well. What’s that old joke again?
Under communism you can make fun of your boss but not the politicians, under capitalism you can make fun of the politicians but not your boss.
I don’t think China is the dystopian hell that a bunch of libs and conservatives think it is, but like any place it could be a whole lot better.
I’m saving up money and I’m going to sign up for Chinese lessons at the Confucius institute here and hopefully I can learn a little bit and one day visit China and then I can talk to some people and see what it’s like for myself and not just rely on images and information other people produced. I also want to try learn more Spanish so I can check out Cuba but I find it very difficult to concentrate and learn now a days.
The PRC is already implementing technology to combat desertification, and is making great progress on Nuclear Fusion and Solar energy. Climate Change is already here, there aren’t hard targets, but degrees of mitigation, the more we do the sooner the less bad the impact will be.
I think it’s good to visit China and Cuba, that’s a good goal.
Yeah as I said let’s see I think most people are underestimating the scope of the situation and idk if we can industrially develop our way out of this, so far the only proven method of lowering our co2 emissions was lockdown. I certainly hope that that China does make these technical break throughs and then shares them with the rest of the world. When I was in 8th grade some people from China came to my school and they had this offer to go to this thing they called a „leadership camp“ or something in China I had to submit an essay and I was accepted but it was pretty expensive so I ended up no going, looking back I what it was exactly I just remembered this today.
Dunno about that movie, the people lopping praises on it aren’t what I would consider politically friendly to China, though, which is a red flag. Lots of US State Department smells coming from it.
He was not considered an Absolute Leader. He held tremendous respect until he lost it from mistakes he made during the Cultural Revolution, and gradually lost political power and influence until his death. As someone in the US Empire, much of his writing on Dialectical Materialism and Party Work are immensely valuable, among other works. Nobody is denying the mistakes of Mao, we are denying the Great Man Theory aspect of your analysis that pins Mao as some absolute leader despite clearly being ousted once his policies were no longer popular.
As for Deepseek, it refrains from political discussion in general.
I don’t think Mao was a great man in the Thomas Carlyle sense, I think he was very powerful man who was at some point an absolute leader. I guess we just disagree on that point which is fine. Also when was Mao ousted exactly and where can I read about this because everything I have read Mao remained the chairman until his death. Deep seek has no problems talking talking about politics it doesn’t however want to talk about any Chinese politicians. I just tested it out.
What is an “absolute leader” if his policies were not accepted absolutely and his power was systematically weakened later in life? Mao held many positions throughout his life in the CPC, and was Chairman of the CPC until death, but more major positions like Premier were held by other figures, and his influence over the party waned as time went on within the positions he did retain. For instance, he stepped down as President in 1959.
He retained massive influence, but his influence was greater earlier on, and the influence of others rose as time went on. The CPC’s current evaluation of Mao is along the lines of “70% good, 30% bad.” They also, however, refuse to take the road of Kruschev with Stalin, which ended up contributing to the destruction of the Soviet Union.
I think there was a point when if Mao said jump you asked how high. I’m sure this wasn’t the case at all times and if you can give me some cool reading suggestions I’ll gladly check it out. I just think that sadly power dynamics like this can develop in political organisations no matter what ideology the members hold. If you really want to know my crazy beliefs it’s that hyper intelligence may not be an evolutionary beneficial trait, but who knows maybe I’m wrong maybe humanity will survive the complete destruction of earths ecosystems and global heating of 3-4 degrees which I think we will easily hit by 2100.
People respected Mao greatly due to his effectiveness and competence as a leader. That’s why he retained the positions he did until the very end, and why the Cultural Revolution was carried out. People listened to him because they trusted him and through experience knew he was competent. He wasn’t unopposed, nor was he the only leader, there were many other positions that held more direct influence.
As for climate change, it’s certainly happening, but the degree to which we can mitigate the most disastrous effects is rising due to countries like the PRC making it a top priority to combat.
Let’s see the whole carbon balance of the earth is changing instead of earth being a carbon sink it’s slowly becoming a carbon pump. We are loosing huge swathes of Forrest methane ice crystals in the artic and Antarctic are starting to thaw. It also turns out there is a whole lot more methane trapped under artic glaciers than we thought and those are all melting. I think the next 8 years are going to show that we hit the 1.5 degree target already, that’s like 70 years ahead of schedule. At some point we are going to try geoengineering whether we like it or not. I do agree that the PRC definitely takes climate change seriously but there are still more radical policy solutions that they should consider like not engaging in commercial fishing for 10-20 years if we still want to have any fish in the ocean.
Oh yeah Mao was definitely opposed people plotted against him all the time. Shit like that happens in every single political party. I’m an extremely pessimistic and cynical person, communism doesn’t get a pass from me. I’d still rather live in a country that took climate change and economic development with an eye on trying to help the poorest in society as seriously as China does, but I definitely appreciate the information freedom I get in the west even though that shit is slowly being eroded as well. What’s that old joke again? Under communism you can make fun of your boss but not the politicians, under capitalism you can make fun of the politicians but not your boss. I don’t think China is the dystopian hell that a bunch of libs and conservatives think it is, but like any place it could be a whole lot better. I’m saving up money and I’m going to sign up for Chinese lessons at the Confucius institute here and hopefully I can learn a little bit and one day visit China and then I can talk to some people and see what it’s like for myself and not just rely on images and information other people produced. I also want to try learn more Spanish so I can check out Cuba but I find it very difficult to concentrate and learn now a days.
The PRC is already implementing technology to combat desertification, and is making great progress on Nuclear Fusion and Solar energy. Climate Change is already here, there aren’t hard targets, but degrees of mitigation, the more we do the sooner the less bad the impact will be.
I think it’s good to visit China and Cuba, that’s a good goal.
Yeah as I said let’s see I think most people are underestimating the scope of the situation and idk if we can industrially develop our way out of this, so far the only proven method of lowering our co2 emissions was lockdown. I certainly hope that that China does make these technical break throughs and then shares them with the rest of the world. When I was in 8th grade some people from China came to my school and they had this offer to go to this thing they called a „leadership camp“ or something in China I had to submit an essay and I was accepted but it was pretty expensive so I ended up no going, looking back I what it was exactly I just remembered this today.
https://revolutionarymovie.com/
Have you ever seen it? I was thinking of watching it sounded kinda interesting
Dunno about that movie, the people lopping praises on it aren’t what I would consider politically friendly to China, though, which is a red flag. Lots of US State Department smells coming from it.