What good came from the Great Leap Forward?
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From a Chinese perspective
Positives:
Deng Xiaoping was given some authority to rebuild the economy.
In the long term, Deng Xiaoping would be a revolutionary, positive leader for the Chinese people, and one of the key people in beginning China's modern economic turnaround.
- Split with the Soviet Union, which was key in allowing Western countries to establish positive trade relationships with China, beginning when Nixon went to China in 1972.
- Mao accepts responsibility for the disasters and sequesters himself in Shanghai.
On the negatives: (given I'm uncomfortable in talking about the great leap forward in positives without mentioning the negatives.)
- Rather than grow the economy and industrial output, both contracted severely.
- 30 to 40 million people died.
- The economy of the country was in a state of near collapse.
- Ultimately Deng Xiaoping was arrested and imprisoned.
- Mao would plot his return to power in Shanghai, and he would pursue another disastrous policy of "the Cultural Revolution" to do so
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