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Spirit of Yenan Maoist Ethics

Spirit of Yenan Maoist Ethics. Yenan Spirit. Equality… no class distinctions Respect for the PEOPLE , not for superiors make peasants the agents of change SERVE THE PEOPLE!. Yenan Spirit. Anti-Confucius Serve the revolution, not the past Cooperation fight ‘self interest’

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Spirit of Yenan Maoist Ethics

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  1. Spirit of YenanMaoist Ethics

  2. Yenan Spirit • Equality… no class distinctions • Respect for the PEOPLE, not for superiors • make peasants the agents of change • SERVE THE PEOPLE!

  3. Yenan Spirit • Anti-Confucius • Serve the revolution, not the past • Cooperation • fight ‘self interest’ • do not be private in thoughts and values

  4. Yenan Spirit • Revolutionary idealism • China CAN be changed! • desire to change the social and economic structures in China • deliberate modernization

  5. “The outstanding thing about China’s 600 million people is that they are ‘poor and blank’! This may be a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing… on a blank sheet of paer free from any marks, the freshest and most beautiful charcters can be written, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be printed.” ~ Mao Tse-tung, 1958

  6. Problems Facing the PRC in 1949 • Famine • Land • Poverty • Education • Medical care • Lack of industrialization • Destruction of the country (due to wars)

  7. Solutions by Mao • Five Guarantees • food, housing, education, clothing, medical • “Walking on Two Legs” • equality for men & women • past serves the present • agriculture AND industry

  8. Solutions by Mao • Dependence on self (not the West) • Using communes • The group is more important than the individual

  9. Mass Campaigns1949-1960 • Anti: • pest • waste • bureaucrats • cheating • corruption

  10. Reading: “The Model Official” Quickwrite: • What ideals of leadership are revealed in this fictional account? (List several)

  11. Great Leap Forward • Mao’s attempt to: • Let the masses plan development • Decentralize development of agriculture and industry • Caused great destruction of land and environment… • NOT successful!

  12. “Let a hundred flowers bloom” • Large group of intellectuals and scholars • “let a hundred new ideas come forth…” • Criticism of communism began (and therefore Mao) • Critics sent to ‘re-education camps’ (i.e. prison)

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