Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary who served as China's Chairman from 1949 until his death in 1976. He had four wives and 10 children total. Mao developed influential Marxist-Leninist theories known as Maoism and led the Communist Party of China to power. Supporters credit him with modernizing China, while critics argue he oversaw human rights abuses and policies that caused millions of deaths. Mao suffered health issues late in life and died of a heart attack in 1976 at age 82, after leaving a significant impact on both China and global communism.

2. A Chinese Communist Revolutionary and
the founding father of the People’s
Republic of China
 He governed as Chairman of CPC
(Communist Party of China) from its
establishment in 1949 until his death
1976

3. Mao Zedong had four wives who conceived a total of 10
children. These were:
Luo Yixiu: (罗一秀, October 20, 1889 – 1910) of Shaoshan:
married 1907 to 1910
Yang Kaihui: (杨开慧, 1901–1930) of Changsha: married
1921 to 1927, executed by the KMT in 1930; mother to Mao
Anying, Mao Anqing, and Mao Anlong
He Zizhen: (贺子珍, 1910–1984) of Jiangxi: married May
1928 to 1939; mother to Mao Anhong, Li Min, and four other
children
Jiang Qing: (江青, 1914–1991), married 1939 to Mao's death;
mother to Li Na

4. His Marxist-Leninist theories, military
strategies and political policies are
collectively known as Maoism or Mao
Zedong Thought.
supporters regard him as a great leader and
credit him with numerous
accomplishments, including;

5.  Modernizing China and building it into a world power
 Promoting the status of Women
 Improving education and healthcare
Providing universal housing, and increasing life
expectancy as China’s population grew from around 550
over 900 million during the period of his leadership

6.  Maoist promote his role as theorists, statesman, poet
and visionary
 Critics and historians have characterized him
as a dictator who oversaw systematic human
rights abuses and whose rule is estimated to have
contributed to the deaths of 40–70 million people
through starvation, forced labor and executions,
ranking his tenure as the top incidence of
democide in human history.

7. Mao had been in poor health for several years and
had declined visibly for at least six months prior to his
death. A heavy smoker and drinker during most of his
adult life, he was also overweight and had multiple
lung and heart ailments during his later years
 He suffered two major heart attacks in 1976, one in
March and another in July, before a third struck on
September 5, rendering him an invalid

8.  Mao Zedong died on September 9, 1976
at age of 82
 Mao was a prolific writer of political and
philosophical literature

9.  He wrote several other philosophical treatises,
both before and after he assumed power. These
include:
 On Guerilla Warfare(《游击战》); 1937
 On Practice(《实践论》); 1937
 On Contradiction (《矛盾论》); 1937
 On Protracted War (《论持久战》); 1938
 In Memory of Norman Bethune (《纪念白求恩》); 1939
 On New Democracy (《新民主主义论》); 1940

10. “ON PRACTICE”
 Mao Zedong’s main text on Marxist
epistemology that is in the Marxist theory
of knowledge
He examines from Marxist point of
view, the problem of how people learn,
how their consciousness develops, and
how correct theory is developed
through practice

11.  Mao is talking about ideology, the kind of
thinking that is enforced and produced by
the mode of production (be it capitalist,
feudal, etc.)
 A big part of our thinking is ideological, it is
socialized or conditioned by the mode of production
under which we live, and it makes it difficult for us
to come up with clear understanding of what is
really going on

12. Mao makes the point that through
social practice we can cut through
this and come collectively toward
higher levels of understanding and
consciousness.

13. Process of the development of knowledge –
Two stages of cognition;
Perceptual stage of cognition
 Rational stage of cognition
the stage of sense perceptions and
impressions
 refers to man's use of concepts in
the brain to form judgment’s and
inferences

14. “If you want to know the taste of a pear,
you must change the pear by eating it. If
you want to know the structure and
properties of the atom, you must make
physical and chemical experiments to
change the state of the atom. If you want to
know the theory and methods of revolution,
you must take part in revolution”

15. “ON CONTRADICTION”
To challenge dogmatist and
subjectivist thinking inside the
Chinese Communist Party

16. Its purpose is to explain the analytic tools
provided by Marxism-Leninism that should
be used to look at problems scientifically,
looking at their inner workings and the
internal contradictions that drive them so as
to come to the best and most progressive
resolution possible under the given
circumstances and conditions

17. In dialectical materialism, contradiction, as
derived by Karl Marx, usually refers to an
opposition of social forces
He uses the concept of contradiction to
explain different Chinese historical time
periods and social events

18.  Mao suggests that all movement in life
is a result of contradiction
 The Two World Outlooks
 Metaphysical and Dialectical Concepts
 The Universality of Contradiction
 The Particularity of Contradiction

19. The Identity and Struggle of
Aspects of Contradiction
The place of antagonism in
contradiction
 Conclusion

20. As Mao makes clear, contradiction is the most
important central element of Marxist dialectical
materialism. In fact, these other categories are
really aspects of contradiction, aspects of the
core dialectical principle of the unity of
opposites. Understanding the contradictions at
work in any situation or process is the key to be
able to act on the situation and make progress.

21. Mao said:
"Whatever is to be done is to be done
by human beings; ideas and action
represent the dynamic role peculiar to
human beings. Human consciousness
and dynamic participation is a
characteristic which distinguishes the
human from all other beings."