Because his obsession with "defeating imperialism" lead him to break up with the Soviet Union, China's most important ally, accusing it of having renewed with imperialism itself and renewed class divisions... It's also the year that the most important revolutionary struggles that China was supporting fell apart (Indonesia is a big one) and it ended up being all alone in the whole world. :]
Although I must say, I skipped the Great Leap Forward... Hmmm.
I don't know. I'm reading a bit of his ideology through secondary sources and I understand why "everyone was a Maoist" back then, as my prof said.
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Date: 2006-02-01 02:41 pm (UTC)Although I must say, I skipped the Great Leap Forward... Hmmm.
I don't know. I'm reading a bit of his ideology through secondary sources and I understand why "everyone was a Maoist" back then, as my prof said.