Mao Zedong was a Chinese revolutionary and Marxist theorist who led the Chinese Communist Party through more than two decades of armed struggle and founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Born to a peasant family in Hunan, he was among the founding members of the Communist Party in 1921. He broke with orthodox models that placed the revolution’s hopes in the urban working class alone, arguing instead that China’s peasant masses could become the main force of liberation.

Through the Long March, the war of resistance against Japanese imperialism, and the civil war against the US-backed Kuomintang, he developed the theory of protracted people’s war, which went on to shape liberation movements from Vietnam to southern Africa and Latin America. His writings, including “On Practice,” “On Contradiction,” and the Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art, insisted that theory must be tested in struggle and that art and culture belong to the people and must serve them. Under his leadership the revolution broke the power of landlords and foreign capital and carried out sweeping land reform. 

It outlawed arranged marriage and the sale of women, spread literacy, and sharply raised life expectancy in one of the poorest countries on earth. He championed the unity of the Third World against imperialism and stood with national liberation struggles across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Mao’s legacy endures for people across the Third World who saw in the Chinese Revolution proof that a colonized, impoverished people could stand up, take power, and chart their own course.

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