The article is largely free of evidence. I'm interested in how authoritarian tyrannies work, but this article hasn't made it any clearer for me. It presents a

The article is largely free of evidence. I'm interested in how authoritarian tyrannies work, but this article hasn't made it any clearer for me. It presents a lot of accounts of how Mao's followers behaved; but those accounts aren't linked to Mao's thoughts or motivations, or really to anyone's motivations. So why? I'm not illuminated.