How can so many on the left admire Mao?
Because the CCP still venerates him. That is the whole answer to your question.
Not that the current CCP follows Mao on economic policy,
but they venerate him for reasons of historical prestige.
And they absolutely follow Mao in the policy of total control of the population.
Ignorance personified.
Many on the left admire both Mao and Stalin. The biggest mass murders in the history of the world. They made Hitler look like a piker.
“How can so many on the left admire Mao?”
The same way they put Che Guevara on T-shirts
Simple. He hated Western Civilization and the free enterprise system.
> How can so many on the left admire Mao?
Because he won. He did what they only have impotent wet dreams of doing.
Yes. And I remind people of this often: Communist China is one of the most racist and xenophobic nations on the planet. They view non-Chinese as insects, or worse.
And at the direction of Mao Tse-tung, they starved and murdered tens or even hundreds of millions of THEIR OWN PEOPLE for political reasons.
Think of that. Now, imagine what the CCP would do to the rest of the world if they thought they could get away with it?
And they have Mao’s face on their currency.
Shows how inferior they are.
I remember the 1960s “educated” college students proudly showing off their Little Red Books of Mao’s alleged sayings written by his inner circle staff writers. All the Jane Fonda types contributing to weakening America.
The left are stupid. Any more questions?
In the 60s, Mao’s Little Red Book was a Western leftist fashion accessory. I doubt many of the kids actually read it.