While he was still alive, Chairman Mao Zedong’s greatest worry was that a capitalist revival would take hold in China and wipe away his utopian vision of communism.
As China marks 40 years since his death on September 9 1976, it is clear his worst fears have been realised.
Mao is still officially regarded as the founding father of modern China but the stark contrast between his egalitarian economic ideas and today’s freewheeling capitalism make the ruling Communist party extremely wary of too much sentimentality.
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