ChinaMao Zedong led the Chinese Communist Party to victory in 1949 and governed the People's Republic of China until 1976. He pursued collectivization and mass political campaigns, including the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
In the 12 Axes register, Mao Zedong leans hardest on Democratic – Autocratic: Autocratic 95%; the register median is Democratic 68%.
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Where Mao Zedong sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Extremely Centralized
Total central party control
Autocracy
Personal rule over party and state
Totalitarian
Mass campaigns and political persecution
Nationalist
Self-reliance and Chinese revolutionary nationalism
Militarist
Korean War, Tibet, border conflicts
Assimilationist
Nominal autonomy, assimilation in practice
Communist
Collectivized agriculture and industry
Planned Economy
Command economy, Great Leap Forward
Isolationist
Near-total trade isolation
Antitheist
Suppressed religion in Cultural Revolution
Revolutionary
Sought to destroy the "Four Olds"
Technological
Crash industrialization and nuclear program
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Mao Zedong is at Autocratic 95%. The register median is Democratic 68%.
Assimilationist – Multiculturalist
On Assimilationist – Multiculturalist, Mao Zedong is at Assimilationist 68%, almost the register median of balanced 50%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.britannica.com
Portrait: Chen Zhengqing (1917–1966), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
