CAS PO 151 Lecture 10: PO151 Notes, Lecture 10
10 Aug 2018
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Mao"s great leap forward, (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:887)(cid:890)-61 collective agriculture: it was an effort towards industrialization. It shifted peasants from small-scale agriculture to: they were primarily producing for their own family, but they should produce on a much larger scale. prices. It eliminates private property and gets the state directly involved in. ^^ it was a huge failure and caused one of the largest famines in history. Initially, this movement had support, but after implementation it became clear that it is unsuccessful. They need to completely reform and re-direct the agricultural system at all costs. The should be driven all aspects of agricultural production. by results not ideology. Deng xiaoping and liu shaoqi become opponents: (cid:498)i don"t care if it"s a white cat or a black cat. It"s a good cat so long as it catches mice(cid:499) (deng, It shouldn"t matter whether it"s a communist policy or not, our goal is to create industry and sufficiently feed people.
