Mao ZeDong and Gandhi have influenced our political views and aspects on how we view our society and country today. Both used their power differently and succeeded and failed but are looked up to incorporate their theories and philosophies in our decision-makings. Noticing the experiences they encountered are the main reasons for their beliefs, which led their paths to either using violence, or non-violent acts. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Western Coast of India. Gandhi’s father was the chief minister of Porbandar and his mother was a religiously devoted practitioner in worshiping the Hindu God Vishnu. Since Gandhi was more privileged, he was able to attend a college overseas to further his knowledge. The …show more content…
He was born into a peasant family that only owned three acres of land, which has been handed for several generations now. During that time, life in China was difficult for many Chinese citizens but Mao’s family was doing better than others. His father was a grain dealer and his mother was just like any mother that wanted her son to have a religious career. Unlike Gandhi, Mao didn’t have the luxury of going overseas to a university. Although Mao wasn’t able to travel out of his home province until he was twenty-five, in the year of 1918 in Peking, China; his view of the country started to change. With limited knowledge and as a librarian worker of Peking University, he was already convinced of communism. Later, he became a primary school teacher in Hunan where he edited magazines arranged trade unions, and assembled schools of his own that were politically positioned. Initially, he tried other ways to further improve China by grasping the peasant’s attention, using force, strategic plans, and most importantly …show more content…
This leader was not any regular leader, he was known as a warlord. He was well-organized and thought things through before taking charge. He would not just attack without having prior knowledge on his enemies. But when he would lead battles, he went on full attacks which is mainly the reason why he became in charge; because of his characteristics, it portrays him to be fearful from others. His strategy definitely included ideas and ways to up raise China. Part of his actions were using force, violence, and fear to gain everyone’s consent. He also promised for better change which for example, he would promote the statuses for women in society, improving the education system, and to increase health care for longer living. But yes, there were plenty of times he failed but he still continuously proved tot the Chinese citizens that he was still suitable as their
During the Cultural Revolution Mao Zedong , people also knew him as Mao Zedong Tse tung was the Chinese ruler. He ruled the country during this time known as Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Moa was very well educated in Western and Chinese traditions. During the year 1918 Mao Zedong had a job as a librarian assistant at Peking University. He would call himself a Marxist in the of 1920 and he helped found the current Chinese Communist party Communist formed an alliance during 1923 with a man called Sun Ya sen and his Nationalist party. After that Mao Zedong quit the current job he had as a teacher to become a poli...
Mao Zedong was a very influential man in history. He forever changed the face of Chinese politics and life as a whole. His communist views and efforts to modernize China still resonate in the country today. Jonathan Spence’s book titled Mao Zedong is a biography of the great Chinese leader. Spence aims to show how Mao evolved from a poor child in a small rural village, to the leader of a communist nation. The biography is an amazing story of a person’s self determination and the predictability of human nature. The book depicts how a persuasive voice can shape the minds of millions and of people. It also shows the power and strength that a movement in history can make. This biography tells an important part of world history-the communist takeover of China.
Millions of peoples was falsely accused and persecuted during the political movements of the Mao period as the CCP focused on class struggle instead of economic development during the period and tens of Millions of peoples died due to starvation as there were widespread food shortages during the great leap forward movement. This raises the problem, does the cost of the revolution outweighs the benefit and if so, can the revolution still be considered a success. This is a very difficult question as the value of human lives cannot be quantified and therefore the comparison of cost and benefit automatically creates a very excruciating dilemma. However, one study done by Barrington Moore in his classic Social origins of Dictatorship and Democracy demonstrated the experience of India during the same period of time. India shares many similarities with China in terms of population, land size and geographic proximity and therefore the two countries’ economy is highly comparable. India, which did not go through a socialist reform, nor a land reform, thus a weak industrial base and low economic growth is currently in an economic situation where half of the country is ‘slowly starving to death’, that is, more than half a billion people are chronically malnourished and will die prematurely . Comparing China with India, it can be argued that the revolution brought more benefit than cost to China and its people and therefore is a success, although the misconducts and terrors created during the Mao era were indefensible and it can be contended that the socialist reform can still occur without the persecutions and famines, however, it should be kept in mind that history cannot be assumed and thus one may only analyze what has already
Mohandas Gandhi and Mao Zedong were two great leaders who succeeded in many ways by their actions and decisions. Gandhi was an Indian leader and Mao a Chinese leader. However, their approach to success, peace, and ultimately, a revolution, was very different. Mao favored peace through violence, and Gandhi favored peace through non-cooperation and standing up for what is right. He also believed that these changes will be accomplished by “conscious suffering”, was the way he put it. However, despite their differences, these two leaders were similar too. They were both very charismatic leaders who successfully made it through their revolutions. Mao’s revolution led to change in class structure while Gandhi’s revolution involved India as a country, and he wanted people to realize that working together is a great way to gain independence. While Mao and Gandhi both believed that each of their countries have the need of independence, their views differed when it came to the use of violence, development towards the revolution, and their thoughts on a caste system.
...e up with his Five Year Plan to try to create more of a world power by increasing China’s industry. At the beginning of the Revolution, China had been receiving money from the Soviet Union because they signed the Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance. This money allowed China to start to actually modernize its industries. Mao’s Five Year Plan’s main goal was to create better industry but also create more and better production of steel, coal, and iron. TO achieve these goals factories and mines were given specific goals to achieve and if they did not meet these goals, the factory believed they were failing its own people. Because of Mao’s Plan, the economic growth rose and most of the goals set were accomplished. The only problem was that the success of it was because there were a lot of Soviet Union advisers that helped China through the Plan.
Mao's period of communal reform and the establishment of the Communist party from 1949-1976 was needed in order for Deng's individual oriented, capitalist society to thrive. Mao's period encompassed the structure of a true dictatorial communist government. It strove to concentrate on unifying communities to create a strong political backbone while being economically self-sufficient and socially literate and educated in Maoist propaganda. Under Mao's leadership individual wealth was seen as a hindrance to community goals in meeting production quotas and was crushed by such policies as collectivization, land reformation, and movements such as The Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Under his rule, modeled under the Stalinist USSR archetype, China raised its masses from poverty and starvation to a standard of living that was considered a substantial upgrade.
Qtn: What the problems did Mao face in trying to implement his policies in China? [12m]
Lin Biao began to promote everything that Mao did, proclaiming that Mao Zedong Thought represented "the peak of modern-day thought" and provided a shortcut to Marxism (Leese, 2011, p. 93). Although the effects of the Great Leap Forward were widely known, Mao became adept at protecting his reputation from it, convincing the People 's Liberation Army to blame Chiang Kai Shek for the disaster. (Leese, 2001, pp. 100-101) This shows how Mao was able to protect his reputation, encourage the spread of his ideologies and cult figure, while still enraging people against the enemy. Initially Mao 's cult of personality was confined to advocating new ways of studying and applying Mao Zedong Thought. The messages were spread throughout the media in papers run by the CCP or the PLA, like the People 's Daily and the Liberation Army News.
The main aspect of his worldview was “socialism in one country” (Wood, 5, 10), instead of world revolution because he believed that, in order to have world revolution, he first needed to concentrate on making his own country communist. Even though all these revolutions and campaigns and revolutions were not all successful, his view of a socialist, industrialized, and communist country was somewhat successful. Although Stalin and Mao were two very different communist figures with completely different approaches to a socialist country, they were able to get along.
This book was filled with his ideas. He discouraged the practice of different religions, including Buddhism and Confucianism. They took away the property of landlords and business owners. In attempt to increase productivity, Mao ordered for collectivization. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao wanted young children to experience the revolution first hand so, the teenagers formed bands of ‘Red Guards’.
It is difficult to fathom that a poor Chinese boy growing up in a farming family achieved one of the most influential roles in China even memorable today. Mao Tse Tung or Mao Zedong did precisely that, by leading the Chinese Republic with the Communist party principles referred as Maoism (Townsend 1066). Maoism, a form of anarchy, was in opposition to the Western principles attributed the President of the United Province Sun-Yat-sen with the Republican state government (Rapp Ch. 6). By this, Tung rejected capitalism, class differences, and individual freedom of the Chinese people. Thus, Tung maintains villain principles as his participation in the Great Lead Forward, and the cultural revolution dominated the weaker Chinese class while advancing his power.
Hannibal and Mao Zedong are both legendary travelers They travel on the very long distance and facing with many obstracle without any technology that's why their journey are noteworthy. Both Hannibal and Mao are travel with difference way so they will meet difference experience too and we will going to campare and contrast it point by point. First is time spent for Hannibal he using about 16 years for his marching from Spain to North Africa but Mao using only 370 days marching from South Chaina to North Chaina it's show that Hanniba's journal may be more difficult than Mao's journey. The next thing we will focus is spent resource. Hanibal watse about 54,000 army cause by fighting and winter storms but Mao lost about 56,000 men with guns and
Throughout chinese history poverty has played a part of chinese society. This also makes sense why people praised Mao, because for some people he helped save them from poverty. But the struggle was definitely a part of the revolutionary movement towards a classless society. On page 11 in Red Azalea “We were called “Rags” and “Fleas.” My father said to us, I can’t afford to buy you new clothes to make you look respectable,” Also in The True Story Of Mao Tsetung And The Communist Revolution In China - Part 1, by Li Onesto, the author explains how Mao came from poverty himself and how this prompted his passion to make change. “In the China where Mao grew up, most people were poor peasants suffering under the system of feudalism. Big landlords owned most of the land and landless peasants were forced to work for them, getting barely enough to survive. The peasants lived in constant debt, subjected to the tyranny of the landlords and conditions of poverty, hunger and disease. Families sold their children because they couldn’t feed them.” "The True Story Of Mao Tsetung And The Communist Revolution In China - Part 1." The True Story Of Mao Tsetung And The Communist Revolution In China - Part 1. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2017. The last source of poverty is Contemporary World History, by William J. Duiker on page 254 “Many peasants were reportedly reduced to eating bark off trees and in some cases allowing infants to starve.” Duiker,
The Great Leap Forward started in 1956 was another great example to interpret Mao’s irritable personality. After the 100 Flower Campaign, the Great Leap Forward was launched to accelerate the industrialization in China. Without much assistance from economic experts because of the “rightist” curse, Mao again conducted another national farce: all Chinese peasant men were inspired by Mao to make steels day and night, even in their backyards; and women were responsible for the field works. (481) Even though some bridges, railways, and power stations were built throughout the country during the Great Leap Forward, the qualities of many steels were too low to use for industrialization, and the movement caused countless waste without the specific instructions from specialists. (481). In the article “Two perspective on Mao Zedong”, Jiang Yihua describes Mao as a political leader whose “understanding of modern industrial civilization was not as deep as his understanding of agricultural civilization.” I agree with the part of this statement. The failure of the Great Leap Forward was not only because of Mao’s limited knowledge about industrialization, but also because of Mao’s selfish thought. If Mao was a dependable leader who really cares about China’s industrial development and care less about his personal reputation or achievement, he would have given much more
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of faith and great conviction. He was born into an average Hindu family in India. Like most teenagers he had a rebellious stage when he smoked, spent time with girls and ate meat (forbidden to strict Hindus). The young Gandhi changed as a person while earning a living as a lawyer in South Africa. He came in contact with the apartheid and the future Mahatma began to emerge, one who championed the truth through non-violent resistance. It was between 1915 and his assassination in 1945 that he struggled for India's freedom.