Mao Zedong Quotes
Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.
Mao, Zedong. "Letter to Jiang Qing." 8 July 1966. Chairman Mao Talks to the People: Talks and Letters: 1956-1971, edited by Stuart R. Schram, Pantheon Books, 1974, p. 281.
The import of this proverb that eventually things get so bad that people take radical steps to organize things. Unfortunately, historically when there have been periods of disorder and anarchy, a strongman or dictator usually takes over and provides the organization,
Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism.