writes predominately about the centrality of violence in resisting colonial rule. However‚ violence is not limited to playing a significant role in just colonisation. Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto encompasses ideas of violence in social revolution and communism. In Marx’s theory‚ Marx writes about a Communist
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Economic and social factors could be said to have played a prominent role in the coming to power of Mao‚ in that discontent was heavily influenced by peasants’ extremely poor economic situations as a result of both inflation and exploitation‚ which generated animosity towards the upper classes and hence the entire feudalistic system‚ as well as giving Mao an opportunity to appeal to the desperation of the peasants‚ for whom the prospect of his leadership in their eyes promised an infinitely more
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When reading of oppression far worse than Nazi Germany or Communist Russia in George Orwell’s 1984 it is a challenge to pick‚ which is worse: mind slavery with luxuries or severe oppression? There are two classes of people in the novel‚ the proles and the party members. The party members are upper class and have more privileges while the proles have the lowly jobs and meager conditions. I personally would choose to be a prole if faced with a decision. Firstly‚ I would choose this because they are
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People’s Republic was collected in 1971‚ originally shown at the ‘Shaanxi Provincial Class Education Exhibition Hall’. The poster depicts‚ Mao standing ahead of the four great leaders of communism: Stalin‚ Lenin‚ Engels‚ and Marx. Behind them is the communist flag and crowds of people and the red Guards‚ cheering and proclaiming their love for their leader‚ lastly‚ on the bottom is the caption‚ “Long Live the Great Marxism- Leninism Mao Zedong Thought” . The reason the poster holds such significance for
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Once Mao had won the Chinese Civil War 1949‚ China’s new communist government implemented policies that both benefited and confined China’s population. Throughout Mao’s reign as leader‚ Mao maintained his leadership through violence and manipulation‚ however‚ his acknowledgement of the gender and the social minorities brought China’s population certain human rights. Wanting to maintain a strictly communist government to suppress human rights as much as possible‚ Mao and China suffered economical
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would come to shape the Chinese government. In addition‚ Confucian ideas would dominate Chinese society‚ and governed the Chinese’s way of life. Then in 1949‚ the Communists swept into Beijing‚ and took power. The leader of the Communists‚ Mao Zedong‚ announced the birth of the People’s Republic of China. After gaining power‚ the Communists tried to change the value system that had been entrenched in China for three thousand years. Without a doubt‚ Confucius was China’s best-known philosopher. He had
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year old woman who grew up experiencing the Communist rule. Nien and her daughter were wealthy‚ so they enjoyed many educational advantages. However‚ I the government instituted a new system that would discriminate against her social class. If Meiping wanted to be accepted into a good middle school‚ she would have to score an 80% on the entrance exam. However‚ children of workers and peasants would only have to receive a 60%. I learned that the new Communist government created unfair systems that would
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many developing countries where the circumstances force the “average man” to strive for only the security of his life. During the early 1950s‚ a few years after the Chinese Communist Party won the Chinese Civil War‚ the new Communist Government was actually welcomed by the majority of the population. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) kept the peasants safe and secured their food supply by providing them with land and other resources. Few argued
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(Dreyer 1). Kuomintang Party stood against the Communist Party and waged a massive civil war mainly in Northeast part of China‚ “ending only with the victory of communists on the mainland in 1949” (Dreyer 1). In the middle of the civil war‚ the aggression of the Japanese dragged China into the tragedy of the Second World War. Chiang Kai-Shek‚ as a generalissimo‚ is also the head of Kuomintang Party and ruler of Nationalist
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In 1949‚ Mao Zedong led the Peoples Revolution‚ which established a Communist State in China. Communism has now been introduced to Asia. In this period‚ after World War II‚ Communism was a popular ideology being introduced throughout the world. Vietnam was one of the many countries under the threat of Communism. At this time‚ Vietnam was a French Colony. As time went on tension started to come between the French and the Vietnamese people. As tension increased so did the fighting between the French
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