I think a lot of people give Mao a bad wrap.

For what it's worth, Stalin is a monster, and the state of China right now is repugnant.

Mao didn't intentionally lead tens of millions of people to starve in the same way Stalin did. Mao was trying to revolutionise agriculture (The Great Leap Forward) but didn't understand the ecological and logistic principles required.

I'm convinced his intentions were good, he just wasn't educated enough to implement something like this.