Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin
Oh yes, Mao was a philosopher, just like Marx. In fact, Mao's communist policy was about as close to Marx as there's ever been. I consider that more than sufficient reason to call him a raving lunatic.
There was nothing in Marx's theories that involved killing anyone, so comparing Mao to Marx is like comparing him to Gandhi. Sure, they may have all been significantly to the left of today's mainstream American politics, but one was a murderer and the other two weren't.