Mao

uReport on Hunan- Revolution is powerful because there were so many peasants rising up  Mao disagrees with Marx: it will not be the workers but the peasants that lead the revolution Not many workers, if they revolted the revolution wouldn't be powerful, a lot of peasants though, so it would be a strong revolution KMT is against Revolution Cities (__**WORKERS)**__ are against the Revolution Peasants vs. Feudalism (he's left Marx who believed this would be the step to capitalism) Sun-Yet Sen's revolution didn't work because he wanted to embrace the past, Mao's will work because it is a revolution against history and will create a break from the past Marx believed that you could only have power if you controlled the economic base, and if that base changed, the government had to change, too. Mao agreed and focused on taking control of the peasants, because their economy was based on agriculture. The main revolution, according to Mao, is the peasants vs. feudalism. He believes that a revolution has to be violent in order to work. That you have to pull out the roots of the past in order to replace it, therefore, there is no way to go too far in a revolution. Mao is the leader of the CCP, taking lessons from the Soviet Union. Because he is communist he believes a revolution is needed in order for the power to match the new economic base of complex industry. The peasants will rise up to make their voices heard.
 * Support or __die__
 * Imperialists
 * Warlords
 * Corrupt officials- KMT, unpopular b/c they wouldn't change social structure b/c they feared it would change their power and they were endorsing old and corrupt ways
 * Local gentry- were in control of land and used the power to exploit the people

Mao did not see the tragedies of the revolution as a bad thing, but as a necessary sacrifice for the greater good of the people. He wanted China to completely rip the system of its past out of its present, and he believed the only way to do so was with an overwhelming and violent hurricane of hundreds of millions of people. Many of his ideas were taken from Marx, who believed that class warfare was necessary to secure the rule of the proletariat, but instead of the proletariat rising, the peasantry did. Sheer numbers combined with an extreme force for change allowed the peasants to overwhelm the government.

Mao- Marx- believed that the proletariat revolution was inevitable- working class. Dialectical materialism- governments will keep revolutionizing until Communism becomes the essential government. Whoever controls economy has power When economic base changes- government changes Feudalism**- Economic Base- Land Power held by landlords, nobility- exploit serfs- people French revolution-peasants and bourgeoisie threw out feudalistic estate system- bourgeoisie become new economic power because ………… Industrial revolution- occurring at the same time changed economic base to trade and industry Capitalist- money Economic Base- Trade and industry Power- held by Bourgeoisie because they control trade and industry Exploit- workers


 * Mao's Peasant Movement
 * Revolution is powerful because of peasants
 * Not workers
 * Strength in the masses, etc.
 * Support or die
 * Imperialist
 * Warlords
 * Corrupt officials
 * KMT
 * Endorsing old, corrupt ways
 * Local gentry
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 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">There is no going to far