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Leader of the Chinese Revolution and founder of the People's Republic, Mao adapted Marxism to the peasantry through people's war, collectivization, and the permanent mobilization of the masses in campaigns of radical transformation.
Political topics
Mao Zedong leans further toward irreligious than 97% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Mao Zedong stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Mao Zedong sits close to the catalog median.
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System in which the state controls the means of production and directs the economy through central planning, promoting industrialization and welfare under strong political authority and limited popular democratic participation.
Mao's Chinese adaptation of Marxism, centered on the peasantry as the revolutionary force, protracted people's war, permanent mass mobilization, and cultural revolution against the party bureaucracy.
Auguste Blanqui's doctrine that a conspiratorial revolutionary minority should seize power and rule through a provisional dictatorship that expropriates the bourgeoisie, with militant atheism and distrust of elections and of spontaneous mass action.
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PaleolibertarianismLibertarian33%
Guerrilla leader and first president of Mozambique after independence from Portugal, Machel led FRELIMO toward a single-party Marxist-Leninist state, with agrarian collectivization, Soviet support, and opposition to colonialism and regional apartheid.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Under Mao, revolutionary China was a single-party communist state, with a collectivized economy and permanent mass mobilization, marked by campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
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