Ideological+differences+Mao+and+Stalin

Ideological Differences
Both Mao and Stalin were considered Left-wing dictators


 * Characteristics of Left-wing dictators:**
 * A more "communist" way of ruling
 * Dictators promise to eliminate class differences
 * Recieves support from middle classes
 * terror and totalitarian rule

**Mao's ideology:** **Stalin's ideology:**
 * A more populist than Marxist approach to revolution
 * He believed in the "advantages of backwardness" meaning that China had great political advantage for the future
 * beurocratic central planning of the economy
 * Marxism-Leninism was the official ideology of the USSR

Both Stalin and Mao are totalitarian and use terror as a means of aquiring what they want. They also both derive their power from a middle class that is unhappy with the current system. They both seek to eliminate class difference and to advance their nation. They both dirive their ideology from original Marxist ideology.