HIEA 2031 Lecture 22: L22

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: History-East Asian History
• Course: HIEA 2031
• Professor: Bradly Reed

Document Summary

Mao"s idea: both: done by simultaneously conducting a great leap into a modern economy and socialist community, most tragic failure of mao"s career resulting in one of the brutal famines in history. At it"s core, concept of the great leap is rooted in maoism: maoism. Voluntaristic belief that it is the subjective forces of human consciousness and moral qualities of the individuals which serve as the driving motor of human histroy. This is a direct rejection of the marxist idea of the driving force of human history is economic, material circumstances of being: represents an optimistic, romantic idea of what human beings are capable of doing. Parallels ideology of may 4th era the possibilty to uproot the confucian traditon and that the people had the ability to self-strengthen itself. Rather, this served a purpose through sheer will and power, they can remake themselves: on paper, the great leap wasn"t as far fetched as we make it out to be now.