Arcana on Nostr: here: I am not a leftist, Mao caused a huge amount of suffering to many people. His ...

here: https://crawford.anu.edu.au/pdf/staff/andrew_kennedy/2011/Kennedy_CQ_2008.pdf

I am not a leftist, Mao caused a huge amount of suffering to many people. His revolution was not “necessary” at all and he was merely another vicious warlord exploiting and harming the Chinese people in a time of strife and war.

His successors ended up doing much better as they meaningfully moved away from a lot of his most egregious traits and policies