Chairman Mao was a man, not a god, and it was impossible to be a prophet or a master. Therefore, he also has shortcomings and historical limitations.
For example, he has not studied abroad, and has only visited the Soviet Union after the founding of the People's Republic of China, so he does not know much about modern civilization and industrial development in the West, and lacks intuitive understanding. He devoted most of his life to revolutions and wars, and had no time for economic research. After the founding of New China, his main energies were devoted to politics, military and diplomacy, which were used to safeguard national sovereignty and strive for international status. Although he also studied and researched economically, due to time and energy, it was difficult to achieve his great achievements in politics and military.
In addition, he adopted a militarized and campaign-based approach to the management of the State, especially corruption, and did not pay enough attention to the role of the rule of law. In the construction of the "four modernizations", national governance has not kept pace with modernization.
Chairman Mao was also very ambivalent on the issue of creating material wealth; on the one hand, he believed that wealth was very important and that it was necessary to vigorously develop the productive forces, and on the other hand, he was worried that people would deteriorate because of their pursuit of wealth, which would affect the development and consolidation of socialism.
Of course, flaws are not hidden. Chairman Mao made great feats that shocked the world in his limited life, started with a contingent of several thousand people, overthrew the reactionaries at home and abroad, established a great new China, established an unprecedented socialist system, and enabled Chinese, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's population, to stand up again and become the masters of the country.
After the founding of New China, he led the volunteer army to defeat the United Nations army led by the United States, and it was a century of humiliation. Then he led the Chinese people to embark on the journey of building socialism, and in just over 20 years, he completed the road traveled by capitalism for hundreds of years, and built a complete industrialization system and independent scientific research system. And there is neither domestic nor external debt. In the face of blockades and sanctions by Western countries, it relied on independence and self-reliance to complete the primitive accumulation, which laid a solid institutional and material foundation for the subsequent opening up. What hardship and difficulty, and how great and brilliant!
No one is perfect, and gold is inadequate. Chairman Mao's inadequacies did not affect his greatness, nor could they obscure his brilliance. Chairman Mao, with his superb wisdom and profound knowledge, changed China and changed the world, and is already a rare great figure in the history of human civilization! His name is destined to remain famous in history, eternal and fantastic! The Mao Zedong Thought founded by him is a brilliant pearl in the long river of human history, shining through the ages!
A generation has a mission of a generation, and the baton of development is passed to the current generation, and they should strive for relay and create new brilliance!