Cities Quote by Harry Magdoff

“after seeing decades of Maoist campaigns, that idealism mostly resulted in misery. China would be helped only as ordinary citizens went about bettering their…

— Gordon G. Chang

“The consequence of all this absolutist control of the economy was predictable: the Chinese economy was stagnant throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…

— Daron Acemoğlu

So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he…

— Deng Xiaoping

“Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see…

— Simon Leys

“Since the very beginning of the Communist regime, I had carefully studied books on Marxism and pronouncements by Chinese Communist Party leaders. It seemed…

— Nien Cheng

“In 1969 my parents, my sister, my brother Jin-ming, and I were expelled from Chengdu one after another, and sent to distant parts of…

— Jung Chang

“The important point, and the crux of the Mao heresy, is that the rural peasant is the base of power. This is a rural,…

— J.C. Wylie

I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an…

— Edgar Snow

Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system…

— Michael Yates

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very…

— Jung Chang

The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?

— V. P. Singh

“As I gazed at Mao’s face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered…

— Nien Cheng