Meh environmentalists were dismissed and often persecuted in communist countries and generally not taken seriously, sorry I’m not giving them a pass here. Modern China is much better though. Even if Mao didn’t sign all the arrest warrants and didn’t know what’s going on that doesn’t really absolve him in my eyes.

It’s cool that you find Mao relevant I don’t but that’s just my personal opinion and not a dismissal of the man himself. I forgot the dudes name but there is an American who was in China for most of the revolution and he knew Mao and said there was a huge difference between young and old Mao he definitely became more authoritarian and closed minded as he grew older. I read the little red book 14 years ago so I can’t remember much of it,I just remember not finding a lot of it to be applicable to my life at the time, maybe if I read it now it would be different.

I don’t use LLMs and I don’t code so I never use them. I was just more interested in what deep seek had to had to say about Mao and was suprised it wouldn’t even let you broach the subject. If I ask deep seek to tell me about bill Clinton it will give me a response, if I ask it to tell me about Mao or any Chinese leader for that matter which I find interesting.

Anyways out of all the 20th century revolutionaries Fidel was more my guy but that’s just personal preference I guess. IMO what is worst for socialism is socialist parties being unable to allow themselves to be criticised this was sadly often the case in communist parties.