“The people must be inspired to cooperate voluntarily. We must not force them, for it we do it will be ineffectual.”
Mao Tse-Tung (1893 to 1976)
Mao was the principal Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led his country’s communist revolution. He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1935 until his death, and he was chairman (chief of state) of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1959 and chairman of the party also until his death.