Why Is Mao An Outlier

Mao was the founding father of the People’s Republic of China. His Maoism thoughts made him an outlier within the Chinese Communist Party and within the international communist movement. The circumstances of the peasantry under Mao were chaotic with the Agrarian Land Reform to the Great Leap Forward. The conditions for the peasants did not improve, as well as China as a whole. Mao became a larger outlier within the Chinese Communist Party and international communists, from the beginning of the civil war with the Kuomintang. His different ideals of communism were outlined in his Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society in March of 1926. A quote from this primary source identifies Mao’s focus on the peasantry. “Peasantry was the staunchest
“Chen Tu-hsiu, were concerned only with co-operation with the Kuomintang and forgot about the peasants…. Chang Kuo-tao, were concerned only with the labour movement, and likewise forgot about the peasants.” By calling his own communist party in China out, Mao made himself an outlier.
Mao also had a different opinion on military styles. When it came to the escape from Jiangxi, The Long March, the military leadership of the communist side in the Chinese Civil War realized their modern military tactics had fail. The military leadership decided to go under the leadership of Mao and his guerilla style fighting in the Zunyi Conference in January of 1935. Before the failure of the modern style of fighting in the Chinese Civil War, Mao’s guerilla style was seen as an outlier and was pushed aside.
Mao was also an outlier within the international communists because of his relations with Stalin and the Soviets before the Sino-Soviet military alliance. Mao and Stalin “..disliked and distrusted each other. Stalin had favored Mao’s rivals within the CPC and had been willing to except Chiang, leader of the Kuomintang, as China’s legitimate ruler. Stalin also distrusted Mao because he viewed Mao as being another Tito, who was the Yugoslav communist leader who broke with Moscow in 1948 to pursue “national communism”.” The distrust between Stalin and Mao made
His first large action for the peasants was the Agrarian Land Reform of 1950. The circumstances for the peasants were chaotic. With the goal being redistribution in the Country-side, land, tools and animals of landlords and gentry were divided up. During this time the Laogai system, work camps that were new schools, to teach those who did not agree with Mao, that with horrible circumstances, was created. 1.5 million former landlords died and a total of 27 million die under Mao. This static shows that under Mao’s official policy the peasant class went into chaos with the