Quote Originally Posted by The Man
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.
"He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force."
-Thomas Jefferson

Mao is the logical conclusion of Marxism.