Mao Tse-Tung

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Does anyone of you have useful information about it?

[yuriandropov]

www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sgabriel/economics/china-essays/4.html

this is a good essay on the 'great leap forward'. my personal opinion, an economic disaster that could of completly ruined china. he should of followed a more conventional stalinist 5-year plan (big factories not backyard furnaces) rather than set ridiculous quotas. i think he may of diverted from the soviet method because of the sino-soviet split that was occuring. he (mao) wanted to go it alone. unwise move,

[ID2002]

I disagree with many of Mao's tactics. But I do agree that socialist ideology was needed in China to better the people.

I do not like his treatment of Tibet and its people!!!!!!

[Capitalist Fighter]

Although i love reading speeches and texts of Mao such as his little red book and Selected Readings from the works of Chairman Mao, i disagree with his policies whilst in power. I think he was a brilliant revolutionary and inspired the masses to fight for his cause but whilst in power was corrupted and created a personality cult. His mistakes witnessed the death of up to 60 million people. Without Deng China would have collapsed. Mao before the revolution was preferable to Mao after the revolution. I don't like the fact that China even now have maintained his personality cult.

[Michael De Panama]

Quote: from ID2002 on 2:59 am on May 14, 2002
I disagree with many of Mao's tactics. But I do agree that socialist ideology was needed in China to better the people.

I do not like his treatment of Tibet and its people!!!!!!


I disagree that socialist ideology was necessary in a nation without a bourgeois rule, a proletariat, or a globalized market. Socialism is not the answer to the collapse of feudalism. As a commie, I am in total disagreement with Mao's political ideology.

Mao believed that the peasants should be the vanguard of the revolution. The problem with this is that the peasants have the mindset of the petty bourgeoisie. The end result was a system run by a new bourgeoisie, the government, exploiting a new proletariat, everybody else except the government.

I think that China was the absolute worst example of communism. Keeping in mind that I am a die-hard commie, I think that China needed capitalism more than anything. The rest of the modern world today needs communism, but it was completely unnecessary for the nation with the least proletarian oppression to have a socialist revolution.

I don't like the treatment of Tibet either, nor do I like the treatment of the common Chinese citizen.

[yuriandropov]

for once michael, i agree with you. the peasentry definatly does have the mind set of the petty bourgeoisie. the most important player in the revolution is the blue collar prolaterat. stalin knew this, and that is what led to forced collectivisation (even if you don't agree with it), he felt the prolaterat to be more loyal than the peasentry, he felt the peasentry (or a large proportain) was controled by the russian orthadox church. i tend to agree with him on this matter.

[Michael De Panama]

Wow. I was almost sure I was going to get an argument out of you. I figured you were the type to agree with any and all communist leader, no matter how wrong they were, for the simple fact that they were celebrated leaders.

I mean, you like Trotsky AND Stalin.

[yuriandropov]

i like mao for leading the workers revolution in china, but i think his policies were way off.