I’m not saying Mao was unaccomplished but towards the end he was considered an absolute leader and he was not very chill, he locked up a lot of people during the cultural revolution sometimes for quite arbitrary reasons. Some of his policies were also a disaster the backyard steel and culling of the sparrows are usually the two that westerners always like to hold on to. The mistakes he made during the cultural revolution were really bad. I don’t hate Mao I read his little red book as a teenager and I enjoyed it, I just didn’t find it to be very relevant to me. I grew up in the west though I’m sure if you were a young Indian or something Mao would hit completely differently.
I also found it really interesting that deepseek would refuse to answer any questions on Mao. Anyways we should view these people as they were human beings who managed to become very powerful and made many of the mistakes that are associated with that. Honestly otherwise you’re just doing lefty great man stuff.