Mao Tse-Tung: The Cultural Revolution

Mao Tse-Tung was different. Different from other great leaders, Different from other distinguished people and Different from the rest of the world. His difference set him apart from other members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and his difference inspired many to support him. Mao was a different type of leader; He led because he thought he was the best person to lead, not because the people thought he was the best suited. He led because he believed he could change china from a distant city to a forerunner of Politics and Ideas. Mao was different, and when you are different from all other people, you can present ideas and actions that lead others to be different as well.

Mao had many different ideas and virtues that were to spread around china. He envisioned china as a great school, a place where everybody is different, everybody is equal, and everybody learns new things. He envisioned China as a perfect school. Over time more people began to realize his ideas and His ideas were put under their own sub category of Maoism. The support behind Maoism and the energy that Mao focused into bringing his ideas to life gave Maoism the fuel that it needed to start on the path forward to bring those ideas to life.

Mao was a distinguished person in many ways and his difference preventing him from becoming just another person. During the beginning of his life Mao became a notable and influential person swaying many to his visions of Maoism. Mao was also very influenced by a man named Karl Marx. Marx was a communist advocate who worked with the working class to establish improvements to communism. Marx also applied the theory that “no group could exist without its opposite (a slave could not exist without its master and vice versa)”. Marx had many ideas but few of them were useful without further adaptation.

During his later years working for the Chinese Communist Party Mao, as well as two other Chinese Communist party workers, Zhu De and Zhou Enlai, adapted the ideas of Vladimir Illich Ulyanov. Ulyanov had also been inspired by Marx and had successfully created a revolution in Russia. All of These Ideas and Values led to the Cultural Revolution of China, one of the great turning points in Chinese history.

The beginning of the Cultural Revolution was rocky and seemed to spawn from nothing in particular, perhaps it was spawn of Mao’s difference or perhaps it was spawned from an apparent stumbling point of communist China. Nothing was published about the Cultural Revolution until November of 1965 when Zhou Enlai added a note to an article written by Mao condemning a playwright and many other artists as “reactionary bourgeois authorities” (anti progress, capitalist, authorities). Zhou said that Cultural Revolution was to be an academic discussion. This was supposed to mean that the government was not to support either side of the argument.