“CPI(M) Calls Mao Zedong A “Great Revolutionary” – A Mass Murderer Who Presided Over The Deaths Of Millions”, TheCommuneMag, 10 Sep 2026.

“The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has marked the 50th death anniversary of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong by describing him as a “great revolutionary” and the “main leader and strategist of the Chinese revolution.”

The CPI(M), through its official social media account, posted: “We salute the great revolutionary Mao Zedong, the main leader and strategist of the Chinese revolution, on his 50th death anniversary.” Mao died on 9 September 1976.

Mao’s legacy was anything but benign: his decades in power brought mass political repression, forced collectivisation, a famine that killed millions and the violence of the Cultural Revolution. Yet the CPI(M) calls him a “great revolutionary.”

His rule resulted in widespread persecution, economic disruption and chaos, while the Chinese Communist Party itself later described the Cultural Revolution as a grave mistake, primarily attributed to Mao.

Mao came to power after the Chinese Communist revolution and founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949. His rule lasted until his death in 1976. Among his most consequential campaigns was the Great Leap Forward, launched in 1958 with the objective of rapidly transforming China into an industrialised communist economy………….”

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