When Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China from atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace on the morning of Oct. 1, 1949, the world suddenly tilted a few degrees off its axis. To Western eyes, it was the natural culmination of decades of tumult - simply the next chapter in China's long, tragic quest for stability. But Mao saw it as the starting point of something much greater, something that the world had not previously seen. He wasn't just trying to remake a government. He was trying to rewire the very psychology of a civilization. Maoism is frequently mistaken for a crude version of Soviet-style communism with a peasant veneer. It was, instead, something much more radical: a blueprint for turning human thought and behavior upside down. Mao felt that a revolution wasn't only a political event but a permanent state, a steady churning force that had to be unleashed and contained in the way you manage a river that threatens to breach its banks.
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