Chairman Mao Is China's God

There are no gods in this world, but Chairman Mao is China’s god.

He founded New China and allowed most Chinese people to live better-off lives than before. This is the plain truth before our eyes, and it is beyond question.

Although there were setbacks like the Cultural Revolution, those were the result of Chairman Mao’s mistaken decisions in his later years. For an old man in the twilight of his life to make a few mistakes is perfectly normal. As for those who were persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution, such as Ms. Liao Yueqin, the mother of the venerable Mr. Zhong Nanshan, even Mr. Zhong Nanshan has said nothing more about it, and the Communist Party has very sincerely admitted this mistake, which I greatly appreciate.

Nearly all of us native Chinese speakers have received nine years of compulsory education. All of this is history, and it is also the truth.

But then again, if you were given a piece of land and lots of people to help you, then for the hardworking Chinese, even if all you did was herd livestock or farm the fields, you would become prosperous in 27 years. That is a gift of nature, a basic principle anyone can understand.

Maybe some people have never thought of it this way, but this is just basic logical reasoning.

What made Chairman Mao formidable was that he could rule securely for 27 years

This takes strong political skill and strategy, which is very hard for most people. Because China is a democratic socialist country, Chairman Mao had to make sure he was elected Chairman in every internal Party election, so he needed others to admire, worship and even fear him.

To achieve this goal, he had to be wary of everyone around him and all of China’s subjects, so he had to use some techniques for controlling the people. The best known are Shang Yang’s “Five Techniques for Controlling the People”:

• Keep the people ignorant: unify thought, suppress private schooling and cultural diversity, so that the people lack the capacity for independent thinking.
• Keep the people weak: make the state strong and the people weak, strip the populace of independent armed forces and the ability to resist, and keep them in a state of dependence.
• Keep the people exhausted: through heavy corvée labor, harsh laws or endless toil, leave the people no leisure or energy to care about politics or plot rebellion.
• Humiliate the people: destroy the people’s self-respect and self-confidence, and enforce mutual surveillance and informing on one another (such as collective punishment), so that people lose trust in one another and live in fear.
• Keep the people poor: beyond the bare necessities of survival, deprive the people of excess wealth and savings, so that they remain at the mercy of the state.

For liberal arts students, all of this appears in their textbooks.

Think about it carefully, and you’ll find that every one of these techniques for controlling the people corresponds to present-day China. This is the hidden content of Mao Zedong Thought.

Chairman Mao implemented the Five Techniques upon taking office in order to consolidate his power, and I completely understand.

For any country, the government and the people are in opposition.

Back then the regime was truly stable. In a socialist country where the people are the masters, the people were never dissatisfied with the government and never held protests or demonstrations.

For all the Chinese people living in happiness, whether Mao Zedong was a dictator is obviously not that important, and it’s not your place as a foreigner to say.

It’s just like North Korea today: all citizens enjoy 12 years of free education, free healthcare, free housing and state-assigned employment. I think they are very happy, and they love Kim Jong Un dearly.

In all the developed democracies (including the US and the UK, and especially Italy and France, which have been in the news a lot lately), you often see people protesting and demonstrating. This is one way for the people to express their dissatisfaction with the government. As long as there is no malicious burning, killing or looting, the government gives them full support and tolerance.

After Chairman Mao died, similar protests and demonstrations also took place in China.

That was on June 4, 1989, commonly referred to as 8964, the ‘89 Democracy Movement, or the Tiananmen Incident.

This is a fact, but it is not recorded in mainland China’s history textbooks.

In 1989, my uncle was 25 and serving in the Chengde Military Region. On the evening of June 3, he received orders from his superiors to go to Beijing with loaded weapons.

My uncle had joined the army to defend his home and country. Considering that there was no need for war in peacetime, and putting that together with what had been happening over those few days, he guessed that they might be ordered to open fire on the people. As a Christian, the goodness and sense of justice deep in his heart absolutely would not allow him to do that, so he claimed to have diarrhea and missed the operation. What happened afterward fully confirmed his suspicion.

Comrade Deng Xiaoping personally gave the order to open fire on the unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators and to crush them with tanks.

After my uncle left the army, he went back to his hometown. He’s the stubborn, single-minded type, so he couldn’t go into business, nor could he become an official.

To support his family, he took on manual work and accidentally broke a leg. Now he can only scrape by repairing bicycles for people. Fortunately, he now receives a pension of about 400 yuan a month, enough to keep him from starving.

He has never complained about losing his leg in that accident, but every time I see him, he looks like he wants to say something and then holds back, as though his heart is full of regret and guilt.

Actually, those pro-democracy demonstrators could have left. If they had just left and stopped gathering in front of Tiananmen, they would not have died.

But they proved one thing with their lives.

After Mao Zedong died, protesting in China could cost you your life. China is not democratic.

This is a fact, a bloody fact bought with the lives of hundreds upon thousands of people. Yet it is not recorded in the history books. Why?

Before Mao Zedong died, during the 27 years of his rule, was China democratic? Could people protest and demonstrate? No one alive knows, because anyone who protested or resisted would have had their whole family slaughtered, without a single descendant left behind.

All his life, Mao Zedong sought neither fame nor fortune; all he was after was 30 million Chinese people.

What I can say for certain is that Mao Zedong’s greatest contribution was dying, and his son “Egg Fried Rice” died too. Father and son left the Chinese people a single dish: cured meat egg fried rice.