When examining the same period, Hutton describes Mao Zedong's "radical egalitarianism" and collectivism as the driving forces. He holds that Mao truly believed in the idea of a communist utopia.
同樣這段歷史，賀頓則歸之於毛澤東的「激進平等主義」與集體主義，認為他是真心相信共產主義烏托邦。