what do you think were Mau zedong's sucesses and failures?

Answer 1

Mao ze dong actually did great things for China, in his early years. Like many dictators, he stayed in power far too long, particularly as his syphilis took hold. In his later years, he was disastrous for China.

Answer 2

Mao Zedong's greatest success was his organization of the Chinese people into an effective military and revolutionary force that fought a 20-year long Civil War, and War Against Japanese Aggression and prevailed. His failures, as well as that of the CCP, were the post-war campaigns like the 'Hundred Flowers Campaign', the 'Great Leap Forward' and his last and most damaging campaign, the 'Cultural Revolution', which failed as revolution from the bottom up, and plunged China into chaos from which it has only just recovered.

Answer 3

It is 30 years since Mao died: but there is still great confusion about his life; and controversy about his achievements. That is because a Communist regime still rules China, and still fiercely defends Mao's myth. The people of China still cannot learn the truth about Mao. The people of the Free World still accept some of the lies perpetuated about him.

MAO's SUCCESSES: -
(They were entirely selfish - personal successes that had nothing to do with the wellbeing of the Chinese people.)
[1] Just like his role-model Stalin, Mao used ruthless cunning to eliminate his more prominent rivals within the CCP, and emerge as its leader in 1931.
[2] During WW2, Mao succeeded in convincing America that his Communist forces were patriotically fighting against the Japanese, when in fact the opposite was true. Mainly, Mao's Communists cooperated with the Japanese, because he wanted to weaken Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces.
[3] After WW2, Mao's Communists won the Civil War against the Nationalists. They achieved this through: (a) massive military aid from Soviet Russia; and (b) treachery by key Communist sleeper-agents within the Nationalist armies and administration.
[4] Once he was in power in China, Mao achieved absolutely nothing --- apart from continuing the elimination of potential rivals within the CCP --- and apart from causing the deaths of about 40 million Chinese through his insane policies.
[5] But Mao's biggest success was holding onto power, right up until his death. It is just a pity that he took so long dying.

MAO's FAILURES
[1] Mao wanted to turn China into a military superpower. To do this, he needed arms and the technology to build armaments factories from Russia. These had to be paid for, and the only product that China could offer in international trade was food. So Mao deliberately starved to death millions of Chinese peasants, seizing their crops to ship to Russia. But his programs of industrialization were still complete failures.
[2] After Stalin's death, Mao wanted himself to be recognized as the new world-leader of Communism. To achieve this, he lavished foreign aid (thanks to more starved Chinese peasants) on Communist satellite governments in Eastern Europe, and on left-leaning groups in Africa and Asia. Everyone happily took free aid from China. But then they forgot about Mao. The only people who regarded him as some sort of world hero were thousands of gullible "radical" students in the 1960's and early 1970's.
[3] By the time of Mao's death, the people of China were poorer and worse fed than they had been in the 1930's. It was left to Mao's successors to begin repairing the terrible damage that he had inflicted on his country and its people.

Answer 4

His greatest success was in convincing people that he really needed to take milk baths with four virgin girls every morning. His greatest failure was that it did not give him eternal youth.