One name should make this clear--Mo Tse Tung. His "thought" still enshrined in their "constitution" .
The regime that killed more than 60-to-100 million of their own citizens.
Yes. They have a different take on the value of life. They have, because of that, successfully inculcated across the breadth of their populace from the Party faithful down to their lowest citizens a war-fever to conduct duplicitous econo-warfare, invade and subjugate their enemies that would make Stalin and Hitler proud. As Harry Wu, the famous dissident has said, "Nuclear war with them is inevitable, they are crazy, they will do it."
Yeah, I remember Mao well and I remember how much damage he did to his own people. But he was freely spending the lives of other people. Mao himself died of old age. He plainly stated that China could afford to get rid of a bunch of population. China now has a serious "middle class " so I expect they would take a dim view, and have the means do do something about, any new purges. I keep watching for evidence the Chicom military is being pumped up do do other than defend Mother China. What do you suppose the Chinese word for "kamikazi "is?