... Mao's thought well into the Cultural Revolution. Socialist ideas and terminology began to appear with increasing frequency in Mao's writings after mid-1919, and he wrote that "there is no higher value than that of the individual, and therefore, the three bonds must go." These bonds: The obedience of the minister to the prince, of the son to the father and of the wife to the husband. Kathlyn Gay ... famine," and that this can be attributed to a systematic failure in central planning (Li, W. Yang, D.T. 2005). Corroborating with this analysis, a mass famine did set in and an estimated 40 m...

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