You are letting your prejudice infect your perception of history, and your lack of knowledge about China's modern history shows. At the time of the Great Leap Forward, China then was reeling from far too many changes of power. The CCP threw out the KMT after fighting together in a terrible war against the Japanese; the KMT themselves had been in a bitter struggle for a China torn apart by upstart warlords, and this after the Xinhai revolution that made the Qing dynasty capitulate.

China had not seen proper peace for a generation, and it finally seemed to have it. And then to see here an ignorant comment calling a people weary from too many revolutions obedient sheeple, saying that they should have mounted a revolution and this "survival of the best warrior" bullcrap. In case you weren't listening, the instability of revolutions tend to attract tyrannic elements, as their history had shown them.

> worse case by foreign invaders that can only be better than current leaders anyway

If a revolution were to have happened, who's to say that China would still be better off? China had seen many foreign powers covet it and had freshly suffered at their hands; it is not improbable that a revolution then would mean a China divided and subjugated by unsympathetic foreign powers and abused, as the Japanese had done before.