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by: Bridget Fobert, Cameron Aurelio,
Taylor SChaffer

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Mao Zedong killed the most people out of any dictator

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1) Machiavelli would have thought that Mao Zedong killed too many people. Machiavelli would have claimed that because Mao Zedong killed so many people that people feared him so much that he would end up being hated by the citizens of China.
2) despite being a murderer of many, Mao Zedong managed to be respected by the people of china even long after his life. His ability to be a monster and let still have the favor of the people would be applauded by Machiavelli. In the Beijing 2008 Olympics,  Mao was honored and several buildings were dedicated in his name. His popularity lives on and his name will always be a symbol of the chinese republic and their accomplishments.
3)Machiavelli would have thought that Mao was successful in working his way from the bottom and slowly gaining power until he became ruler. He used the philosophy of that fear is greater than love. Also used his intelligence and political prowess to make sure that no one would get in his way and did not let other people influence his ideas of how things should be run

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Communist propiganda

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Zedong upon entering office seized all media to promote him and the Communist Party.
In one of his first campaigns, Mao executed a land reform in which he regulated how much land each person could own. Zedong slaughtered all of the farmers that protested in his efforts to suppress all revolutionaries. During this radical campaign and others it is estimated that Zedong killed at least 40 million people.

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As the First Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China:
- June 19th, 1945 - September 9th, 1976
As the First Chairman of the Central Politburo of the Communist Party of China:
- March 20th 1943 - April 24th, 1969
As the First Chairman of the People's Republic of China:
- September 27th, 1954 - April 27th, 1959
As Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission:
- August 23rd, 1945 - September 21st, 1949 & September 8th, 1954 - September 9th, 1976
As the First Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC:
- September 21st, 1949 - December 25th, 1954 & Honorary Chairman: December 25th, 1954 - September 9th, 1976
As a member of the National People's Congress:
September 15th, 1954 - April 18th, 1959 & December 21st, 1964 - September 9th, 1976

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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

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Mao Zedong was a Chinese Communist. He was also a revolutionary and a Founding Father of the People's Republic of China. Known as a theorist, military strategist, poet, and visionary, he was regarded as one of the most important individuals in modern world history.

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Born: December 26th, 1893 in Shaoshan, Hunan province, Republic of China.
Died: September 9th, 1976 in Beijing, China

Born son of a peasant farmer and forced to work full time on his family's farm when he was 13 until his parents pushed an arranged marriage on him and he left to go study on his own at a higher primary school in the province capital, Changsha.
He was interested in western ideas of revolution and looked up to leaders such as Napoleon I and George Washington. A Revolution broke out and spread to Changsha  where he enlisted in the army and would spend time as a soldier for 6 months.
After the war he went on to and studied at police school, law school, business school and studied classic western liberal works.  In school he had his first experience in political  activity by helping establish several student organizations, the most important was the New Peoples Study Society, whose members would later join the communist party.
Continuing his education he went to Peking University where he came under the influence of Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu who would later be fundemental in forming the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).