In most cases education is the most valuable tool you can have in life. Chairman Mao offered education to everyone in China, but the real question is what was the quality of that education? The answer …show more content…
He destroyed lives, in particular, through starvation. At the start of his reign, Chairman Mao declared that he would abolish starvation in China, but his actions resulted in quite the opposite. Chairman Mao took all the essential food from the people who needed it most for himself and left them to starve to death. This was not ok. He was taking their lives away slowly and drastically, leaving them with nothing to save themselves with. They had to go through every day suffering, most of the time a family member was lost, leaving them in utter despair. Corruption was another major killer. Chairman Mao ordered his red guards to corrupt anti-revolutionary citizens. This was no one but Chairman Mao's fault. The red guards needed the title to protect themselves and their families, there was nothing they could do. A big gesture of anti- revolutionary was not the only forbidden thing in China. So much as to mention a word against Chairman Mao was not tolerated. Innocent people were killed for believing in what was right. Chairman Mao was unjust and incorrect in his choices on how to punish the people of China.
In conclusion, it is undeniable that Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution was bad for China and its people because of the false knowledge of the West via an awful education, the false sense of freedom given to the people, and in the whole horrific process, killed over 40 Million