Is chairman mao responsible for the tiananmen square massacre? or was it not his fault?

Question

Is chairman mao responsible for the tiananmen square massacre? or was it not his fault?

Answer 1

Mao is responsible moraly,,, because he is the cause of the aftermaths.....

Answer 2

Oh, Honey, Mao had been dead for decades!  His despotism may have contributed to the leader's feelings that they were entitled to massacre dissidents, but Mao and even Madam Mao were long gone.

Answer 3

No, Mao died many years before.  A whole new set of Communist leaders were to blame.  However Mao was easily the greatest mass murderer of all time.  A committee headed by Ted Kennedy in 1972 or 1973 determined Mao murdered somewhere between 42,000,000 and 63,000,000 Chinese in his "Great Leap Foward" program.

Answer 4

A great part in it yes. The intuitions he presided over were in place (and largely still are) at the time.

However, once you start getting into causal effects it opens a whole can of worms. Especially in a culture that is so heavily focused on tradition and hierarchy in a way us westerners seldom understand. This starts with the farther as the head of the family, and extends the same principals across government at all levels, the key message is ‘obey’.

To give you a good example 15 years ago the Chinese foreign secretary was visiting France when he was asked what effect the French revolution had on China. He thought for a while before replying that it was too soon to tell.

Answer 5

Is not knowing history responsible for asking qustions with impossible answers?

A) WHAT YEAR  did Chairman Mao DIE?

B) WHAT YEAR  was the Tiananmen Square incident

Subtract  A from B and you can see that Chairman Mao had nothing to do with it.