Does anyone here really believe that Mao was a great philosopher? He once said something to the effect that "my bowels never moved more freely than during the Long March (Great Revolution). This may be true, but hardly worth repeating unless mass murderer Mao said it.
It is more likely, IMHO, that he was a personality cult philosopher, and not a true philosopher, right? Maybe he knew a lot about revolutionary warfare and politics, but philosophy?