Official Mao Zedong Thought Maoist revolution Mao believed in the power of the peasantry rather than the urban proletariat Felt that the only thing needed to mobilize the rural workers was the strong leadership of the CCP ID: 337957
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Slide1
What was Maoism?
Official Mao Zedong Thought Slide2
Self-reliance
Mao believed China should be restored to an independent nation
Wanted liberation from foreign control and from feudal landlords
Soviet Union was held up as a negative exampleSlide3
Continuing revolution
Mao believed that the CCP’s rise to power in 1949 was just the beginning of ‘revolution’
Believed power came from
continual
involvement in the revolutionary process and felt it was essential that
each generation
participate in the revolution to keep it alive
Placed a high priority on maintaining revolutionary zeal of the massesSlide4
Class struggle
Mao was worried about the formation of a communist elite – felt the leadership would eventually detach from the masses as they gained more power
Believed in party ‘rectification’/purges
Held ‘struggle meetings’Slide5
Learning from
the people
Mao wanted to ensure that the party leadership listened to the needs of the people and ‘learn’ from them
He also believed that the masses should participate in policy discussion
The people were to provide a ‘democratic check to the power’ of the CCPSlide6
Mass
Mobilization
Mao believed that the way to achieve specific national objectives was for the CCP to mobilize the masses (he felt that once they were mobilized, they could achieve anything)
The basis for this was the belief that people would work hard for the benefit of the greater good once they were convinced of the benefits of socialism