Mao Zedong People Analysis

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The Parallel Aspirations of Mao Zedong and the People The peasants of China were oppressed by their “superiors”, mainly their landlords, for years before Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came into the light of society. China tried to free the impulses of the people while the Chinese Communist Party wanted to seek out a solution that allows for the party to keep in close touch with the people (Lecture 3/1). So why was the CCP so popular with the people of China? Well the chairman, Mao Zedong, made promises to the people that there would be benefits even the poorest peasants could profit from. Aside from these enticing comforts, Mao shared the popular “anti-Japanese” views that most all of China supported, and he used the Maoist method of the “mass line” to ensure his …show more content…

All in all, those peasants who chose to follow Mao were able to attain a political “status” that would have otherwise been unreachable. In addition, the “poor” and “middle” peasants had the opportunity to have more options in their social experiences since the base camps were nonhierarchical with a high sense of camaraderie. Without the hand of chairman Mao and the CCP, the people they represented wouldn’t have known such luxuries as education and healthcare. Women would be forced to marry a man they may not love, and the poorest of the peasants would have barely met ends meet with the scarce acreage they possessed. The people might not have had the opportunity to be at the head of the anti-Japanese resistance, and the people wouldn’t have had the chance to self-mobilize through the process of the “mass line”. The CCP coincided with the people it represented through both the Jiangxi and Yan’an bases. In 1949, the communists were able to declare victory and on the first of October 1949, Mao declared the nation as the “People’s Republic of

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