Maoism is the ideology of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party focusing on social class systems and industrializing agrarian forces through revolution using violent means. Key features include New Democracy, People's War, and the Mass Line. Goals were mobilizing peasants as the main revolutionary force and industrializing agricultural production. Deng Xiaoping Theory adapted Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought to modernize China's economy while preserving Communist Party unity, with goals like improving agriculture, industry, and national defense through science and technology under the Four Cardinal Principles.
Maoism is the ideology of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party focusing on social class systems and industrializing agrarian forces through revolution using violent means. Key features include New Democracy, People's War, and the Mass Line. Goals were mobilizing peasants as the main revolutionary force and industrializing agricultural production. Deng Xiaoping Theory adapted Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought to modernize China's economy while preserving Communist Party unity, with goals like improving agriculture, industry, and national defense through science and technology under the Four Cardinal Principles.
Maoism is the ideology of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party focusing on social class systems and industrializing agrarian forces through revolution using violent means. Key features include New Democracy, People's War, and the Mass Line. Goals were mobilizing peasants as the main revolutionary force and industrializing agricultural production. Deng Xiaoping Theory adapted Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought to modernize China's economy while preserving Communist Party unity, with goals like improving agriculture, industry, and national defense through science and technology under the Four Cardinal Principles.
Maoism is the ideology of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party focusing on social class systems and industrializing agrarian forces through revolution using violent means. Key features include New Democracy, People's War, and the Mass Line. Goals were mobilizing peasants as the main revolutionary force and industrializing agricultural production. Deng Xiaoping Theory adapted Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought to modernize China's economy while preserving Communist Party unity, with goals like improving agriculture, industry, and national defense through science and technology under the Four Cardinal Principles.
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Ideology of Mao Zedong = Maoism
-the vision, policy, ideology, and political thoughts of Mao Zedong and his associates in the Chinese Communist Party
-focuses on the social class systems, industrialization of agrarian urban forces.
-Revolution=geming=violent means must be used to impeach a ruler of heaven’s mandate.
=human consciousness, instead of material conditions, will determine history; to carry out change
=destruction; “no construction happens without destruction; only when destruction is under way does the process of construction begin”
-Features:
theory of New Democracy- socialism could only be achieved through popular, democratic, and anti-imperialist movement with the communists in charge People’s War – revolutionary struggle by the majority against the exploiting class; done through revolt and guerilla warfare. Mass Line- no separation between the party and the people whatsoever; the masses must be involved in the revolution.
-Goals:
Mobilization of the masses
-Peasants to become the main force of the Chinese revolution. -Susceptible to be an orthodox Marxist-Leninist Communism, but its intended outcome is industrialization of production, whereas Maoism is industrialization of mostly agricultural production
Ideology of Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping Theory = adapts Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought to the existing socio- economic China
-View of Deng, leadership was twofold: modernizing the Chinese economy; preserving the ideological unity of the Communist Party of China
Goals:
Improve agriculture Improve industry ^^^ national defense ^^^ science and technology -Adaptation with the Four Cardinal Principles = preserve ideological unity between CPC
1. Basic spirit of communism
2. Political system of the PRC; people’s democratic dictatorship 3. Leadership of the CPC 4. Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought
*Because of this ideology, it has been the foundation for China’s success; it brought an end to the suffering of the Chinese people under Mao’s mismanagement and disastrous campaigns. (n.a., 1986) (Jian, n.d.)
(Chang, 1996) (Johnston, 2013)
References Chang, M. H. (1996). Communist and Post-Communist Studies.
Jian, C. (n.d.). Maoism. Retrieved from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-
Johnston, C. (2013, September 28). What Deng taught Xi Jinping: pragmatism trumps ideology. Retrieved from East Asia Forum: https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2013/09/28/what-deng- taught-xi-jinping-pragmatism-trumps-ideology/
n.a. (1986). Theory and Practice of Mao. In n.a., Class Struggle.
