Some foreigners say that our ideological reform is brainwashing. As I see it, they are correct in what they say. It is washing brains, that’s what it is! This brain of mine was washed to become what it is. After joining the revolution, it was slowly washed, washed for several decades.
What I received before was all bourgeois education, and even some feudal education.
- Mao Zedong
Here is a list of mass killings under communist regimes. This is a list of governments murdering millions of their own people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes
This is a list of mass killings during Mao’s regime
https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/chronology-mass-killings-during-chinese-cultural-revolution-1966-1976.html
Did it work? No. China left the communist system decades ago and now represents state capitalism
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-kind-of-economy-does-china-have.html
From the article: “In 2005, two Chinese economists, Chenggang Xu and Julan Du, conducted a study designed to determine the type of economy that operates in China. Interestingly, they concluded that the system encourages capitalism and that it does not represent a socialist market economy.”
Communism does not work. There are no examples of successful communist countries in over 130 years of communist thought and over 110 of communist revolutions
Only the most minuscule fraction, a few thousands of people, out of a population of hundreds of millions will do well in a communist country. All the rest will get oppressed and are likely to face starvation, aw history shows