Mao Zedong proves communism is politically superior to capitalism

What Con fails to mention is the rapid industrialization that occurred due to communism. In the First Five Year Plan from 1953-1957, the CCP was extremely successful in bolstering industrial output; - Steel from 1.31 million metric tons in 1952 to 4.48 million metric tons in 1957 - Cement from 2.86 million metric tons in 1952 to 6.86 million metric tons in 1957 - Raw iron from 1.9 million metric tons in 1952 to 5.9 million metric tons in 1957 - Coal from 66 million metric tons in 1952 to 130 million metric tons in 1957 - Electricity from 7.26 billions of kilowatt hours in 1952 to 19.34 billions of kilowatt hours in 1957 [1] Clearly communism rapidly bolstered China's growth out of the Korean, Chinese Civil and Second World Wars, and no Con, Mao did not murder 20 million workers to ascertain this progress. Furthermore, workers were allowed an 'iron rice bowl', GUARANTEEING employment, food and sufficient wages, as opposed to capitalism, which dispatches workers once they are an obstruction to higher profits. In the 1st Five Year Plan, agricultural output also increased 4% each year, showing the ability of Soviet farming techniques in collusion with Mao's. I will not deny that 1 million landlords were killed by Chinese peasants in consolidating the power of the CCP, but this was done in collusion with Fanshen and the Agrarian Reform Law of June 28th 1950, that gave peasants all over China land reform they had greatly desired. The means by which the landlords were killed were also not as inhumane as Con puts it; peasants formed 'People's Tribunals' to try the landlords individually for their past treatment of peasants, and this was a vigorous and democratic process; if a landlord had been fair in their previous treatment of peasants, he became one and thusly received his own allotment of land, whereby tyrannical landlords only were killed. I will further not deny the horrors of the Great Leap Forward, actually of 1958-1961, but Con manipulates true historical processes to further his points. First off, there was actually great revolutionary fervour to massively increase agricultural production, with loud processions outside yelling for higher (admittedly unreachable, but still higher) grain targets. It is estimated that actually only 30 million peasants died during the Three Bitter Years' Famine, and whilst Mao accepted responsibility for his fault in employing the policy, natural disasters such as locus infestations, excess flooding that ruined crop fields and low rainfall were all out of Mao's reach. He was indeed an incredible man, but he could not predict natural disasters. Also, even the figure of 30 million is debated to this day, as official CCP sources state that only 16.5 million peasants died, whilst the figures >30 million have been made by subjective economists of the West, out to slather Communism as immoral and crude. [2] Finally, Mao did not 'have plenty of food to eat' during the Three Bitter Years' Famine, in fact he himself said, "I cannot eat meat" and in fact he DID NOT eat meat during the famine. Zhou Enlai similarly gave up eating meat and eggs himself, thus showing that the CCP DID NOT have contempt for victims of the famine. This is in opposition to Winston Churchill, who said of the victims of the Bengal Famine that it was their fault for, "breeding like rabbits." So imperialist Churchill is moral yet shows contempt for victims of his famine and is overlooked, but Communist Mao is a monster for cutting off meat consumption and accepting responsibility? Such is the view of the media today, which is absurd. You actually bolster my argument in speaking about the Tiananmen Square massacre, as that was actually not done by Mao, but under Deng Xiaoping in 1989. Finally, I want to talk about how the lives of women improved under the CCP. Mao said that, "Women hold up half the sky." and this is evidenced by his Marriage Law of May 1st 1950, whereby he gave women equal rights in education and employment, whilst banning patriarchal actions such as foot binding, polygamy, arranged and child marriages and concubinage. Women were encouraged to involve themselves in society to the equal extent of men. All these factors showed how much Mao improved the lives of Chinese citizens after his ascension to power in 1949. [1]Schools Council History Project, The Rise of Communist China in the UK: Holmes and McDougall 1977, pg 46. [2] https://monthlyreview.org... [3] Tom Ryan, China Rising 2nd Edition, pgs 158-159, pg 169-170