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| | Mao, The unknown story : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Mao's work with the peasantry, that makes him so unique as a revolutionary leader and until today an inspiring example for third world liberation movements, is simply ignored in the book. |
 | | She does not advance any real argument for her thesis, but that is not really a problem: this narrow vision on the Cultural Revolution has long since been pushed trough by the mainstream media and so does not have to be proved anymore. |
 | | Mao left his successors a stable rural economy, a fairly comprehensive heavy and light industry, a network of roads, railways, ports, airports, dikes, dams, irrigation canals, reservoirs, schools, hospitals...Without all this, Deng Xiaoping would not have been able even to consider his own great leap forward. |
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