HIST-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Maoism, The Revolution Continues Alliance, Pragmatics
5 Nov 2018
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Moderates with gradual social changes and developments in economy vs radicals who want drastic restructuring of chinese society. Mao"s position in china is weakened in the early 1960s. Mao"s inability to govern: mao is more of an "idea man" / "dogmatic" with his own interpretation and doesn"t want to modify it and stick to it--being inflexible to deal with challenges in china. Mao"s plans for the communist party: mao attempts to reinforce his position within the party. Importance"s of revolution to be on guard and reach forward to achieve the goal of a communist state: mao"s view of the ccp. Lack of appreciation of the battle to get to china needs to be addressed and the young people/students should be engaged in continual revolution: fears that china will follow the soviet model. Importance to avoid the soviet model which has been around much longer than. "red guards" creation: relying heavily on students for "red guards" as believers in utopian maoism.
