"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." - Mao Zedong
An Independent Economy of Famine
The Great Leap Forward was a constituted genocide as Mao employed all Chinese citizens in his unsuccessful effort to launch China into a sterling model of communism. Chairman Mao classified the Chinese agrarians among economic lines, labeling them peasants and wealthy peasants. Furthermore, Mao Zedong classified anyone who didn't go with the party line as counter-revolutionary. In the late 1950's, China and the USSR were allies in support each other in the industry of agriculture and industrialization until later Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin, surprisingly, had differentiated views on peasantry. Soon, Zedong and Stalin had went in their separate ways. Chairman Mao made it clear that, from the start, the policies of the Great Leap Forward were about China developing a more independent economic policy. China's alternative plan was to rely on the USSR for developing agriculture alongside with the development of industry, but Mao Zedong wanted to use the resources that China could gather in abundance-labor and popular enthusiasm. The use of resources would make up for the lack of capital and advanced technology. The belief of being an independent economy had lead for Chairman Mao to implement the Great Leap Forward policy upon Chinese Citizens. Making the reason of an independent economic policy a major cause for the Genocide.
Chairman Mao looking at Wheat Crops from the first month of the Great Leap Forward Plan.