• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    with the left

    Buddy…

    In 1978 the CCP split from Maoists, because the Maoists were too extreme

    Do you have any idea how many people died because of Maoism?

    Jung Chang and Jon Halliday contend that implementation of Maoist thought in China was responsible for as many as 70 million deaths during peacetime,[118] with the Cultural Revolution, the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–1958,[119] and the Great Leap Forward. Active campaigns, including party purges and “reeducation”, resulted in imprisonment or the execution of those deemed contrary to the implementation of Maoist ideals.[120] Some historians have argued that because of Mao’s land reforms during the Great Leap Forward which resulted in famines, thirty million perished between 1958 and 1961. By the end of 1961, the birth rate was nearly cut in half because of malnutrition

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism#Criticism_and_implementation

    Seriously, do you have any idea what Maoism actually is?

    They’re authoritarians. That’s not “the left”.