This betrays a child-like naivete about power and how it functions (or the faking of such). Mao is the nominal leader of a scheming gang that only has power "from the barrel of a gun". He has no claim to leadership that isn't the Schelling point of "he's currently the leader" 1 https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/1365117721281757191 …
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So what does he do? What can he do? Can't make himself more legitimate, can't declare himself Emperor. The option he chooses is to unleash his supporters with the promise of bloodletting and social upheaval. The fanaticism and spiraling slaughter are his protection.
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His enemies within his gang fear it; his supporters revel in it because they get status and the thrill of beating helpless people to death. This is a high probability outcome of a leftist revolution because the forces are all there in all cases.
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