Ganapathy
Banned
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2016
- Messages
- 500
- Reaction score
- 62
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Socialist
My personal vote goes out to the man on my avatar: Mao Zedong. Mao helped lead the Chinese guerilla movement during the Japanese occupation, and through a decade of hard fighting, managed to free China from Japanese fascism.
He then fought a civil war with the corrupt and dictatoral Chiang Kai Shek, and won. Mao took power over the whole country in 1949, at a time where China was a backwards, corrupt, third world country with a literacy rate closer to 50 percent than to 100 percent, especially for women. Warlords controlled large swathes of the country, and the public health care system, education system, and all sorts of public works were nonexistent.
By the time Chairman Mao died in 1976, China was well on the road to becoming the superpower it is today. Literacy in China, thanks to Mao, is now nearly 100 percent for all citizens. Women are no longer expected to marry at the start of adolescence and become concubines, but are free to pursue the same careers and successes as their male counterparts. China's highway system is now larger than that of the USA, and Mao set the foundation for making that happen. In China, all citizens are entitled to completely free healthcare, courtesy of the government. There is next to zero gun violence in China, and the police are unarmed citizens who interact with the public as a whole without shooting a person of color every five minutes.
Although Chairman Mao died a quarter century ago, his legacy lives on through the constant leaps and bounds China makes in technology, industry, and education, inspired by the communist party's dedication to reform and an equal society for all, not just the emperors or warlords.
He then fought a civil war with the corrupt and dictatoral Chiang Kai Shek, and won. Mao took power over the whole country in 1949, at a time where China was a backwards, corrupt, third world country with a literacy rate closer to 50 percent than to 100 percent, especially for women. Warlords controlled large swathes of the country, and the public health care system, education system, and all sorts of public works were nonexistent.
By the time Chairman Mao died in 1976, China was well on the road to becoming the superpower it is today. Literacy in China, thanks to Mao, is now nearly 100 percent for all citizens. Women are no longer expected to marry at the start of adolescence and become concubines, but are free to pursue the same careers and successes as their male counterparts. China's highway system is now larger than that of the USA, and Mao set the foundation for making that happen. In China, all citizens are entitled to completely free healthcare, courtesy of the government. There is next to zero gun violence in China, and the police are unarmed citizens who interact with the public as a whole without shooting a person of color every five minutes.
Although Chairman Mao died a quarter century ago, his legacy lives on through the constant leaps and bounds China makes in technology, industry, and education, inspired by the communist party's dedication to reform and an equal society for all, not just the emperors or warlords.