Not long ago, a photo on the Internet resonated with people again. The photo was taken in a sunny summer. A group of children resting in military training were enjoying the shade cast by Chairman Mao’s sculpture. The blogger who posted the photo by
: To this day, children are still enjoying the cool air in the shadow of great men, which deeply touched many people.
In China, Chairman Mao has a supreme position in the hearts of the Chinese people, and people respect him not because of his awe of his power as the chairman, but because of his outstanding contribution to China and great thoughts.
In foreign countries, Chairman Mao is also a respectable politician. Many US presidents have expressed their respect for Chairman Mao, and Harvard professor Pei Yili who is quite knowledgeable about China is also not stingy with praise for him.
tear the darkness
The leaders of most countries are politicians who have made great achievements in politics, but there are very few leaders like Chairman Mao who have come out of war.
The other emperors were always accompanied by various strange phenomena when they were born. Chairman Mao did not have any prominent background. In 1893, he was born in an ordinary peasant family, but it was such a boy who brought hope to China in the dark.
1914, 17-year-old Mao Zedong began to study at Hunan No. 1 Normal School. Here, he saw the suffering of the nation and took it to heart. Advanced thoughts washed away the unyielding heart of the young man and led him to the path of revolution.
Subsequently, the May Fourth Movement sent Marxism to China, and Mao Zedong was the inspired awakened man. In 1920, under the inspiration of communism, he founded the communist organization in Hunan.
In July of the second year, the first National Congress since the founding of the Communist Party of China was held. Mao Zedong was elected as secretary of the Hunan District Committee of the Communist Party of China with his solid theoretical foundation and advanced revolutionary ideas. At the Third National Congress two years later, he was elected as an executive member of the Central Committee and formally participated in the leadership work of the Central Committee.
The cooperation between the Communist Party of China can be said to have taught every Communist a lesson. After the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China was completely broken, Mao Zedong proposed "the power came out of the gun" and proposed that the Communist Party should also organize its own revolutionary armed forces.
The initial revolution of the Communist Party was completely copied from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Revolution attacked big cities, and the Communist Revolution also caught big cities to fight to the death. As a result, such behavior not only failed to win, but also caused heavy casualties to the entire team.
At this time, Chairman Mao realized that China and the Soviet Union had very different conditions and environments. Although the Soviet Union had a victory in its revolution, it may not be possible to copy this old path to China. So he proposed the idea of "surrounding the city in the countryside" and successfully established our country's first revolutionary base.
At that time, everyone was looking for a way out in the dark, and even these advanced revolutionary fighters did not know what kind of ideas could save China.
When everyone saw the victory of the Soviet Union, they mechanically copied the Soviet Union's experience, which made the Chinese revolution take many detours. However, Mao Zedong, who was well-read in history, keenly captured the laws of history and pointed out the direction for the Chinese revolution.
However, at that time, Mao Zedong's guiding position within the party had not been established, and many "left-leaning" people even opposed his thoughts. It was not until the Communist Party was forced to embark on the Long March under the encirclement of the Kuomintang troops that the people gradually realized who was right.
In Anti-Japanese War , Chairman Mao has always insisted on the united front and independence. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he encouraged the anti-Japanese war team to mobilize the masses and sow the seeds from the base area all over the country.
In addition, Mao Zedong was also an outstanding talent in strategy and tactics. The Communist Party was in difficult conditions and backward at the time, but under the command of the Chairman, he used the strategy of guerrilla warfare to achieve gratifying results many times.
In this way, under the command of Chairman Mao, China finally ended its humiliating history and China stood up again. Professor Harvard believes that Chairman Mao is very good at integrating traditional culture with revolution. He uses traditional etiquette and culture to call on the masses, which also allows Chairman Mao to lay a solid mass base during the War of Resistance against Japan .
Unified Socialism
After years of war of resistance, the invaders were finally driven out of the country, and China was once again unified, but the question of who was the master of the country has not been solved. What kind of national system should this country be and what path to take is a questionnaire proposed by China, and Chairman Mao gave the perfect answer.
When China just emerged from the haze of war, the Soviet Union had become the "hegemon" of the world. Since the Communist Party has the same political proposition as the Soviet Union, can the government established by the Communist Party copy the Soviet Union?
The answer is no. Although the Soviet Union achieved gratifying results under superior policies, this theory cannot be forced to be applied to China.
The state system of socialist countries determines that this country must be a country where the people are masters of their own country, but the difference is that the socialism of the Soviet Union is based on the federal government.
Although the Soviet Union has a vast territory, it is not completely unified. To be precise, it is a political body composed of various franchise republics . Although these political bodies are combined and connected in the form of a federal, the central government has relatively weak control over the region. The state system form such as
also made the Soviet Union not very strongly cohesive. Although each region formed a country, the people in the country did not hug each other tightly like their families. This shows that there is a big difference between the Soviet Union and China in social form.
China has been a country since ancient times. Although it has experienced 11 years of war, the thousand-year cultural history has closely linked everyone in this country. Although each region and ethnic group has different traditions and different accents, the genes of China are buried in its blood.
Taking this into account, Chairman Mao innovatively proposed the unique socialism of China, which is based on a unified country and is more cohesive.
Of course, China has a vast territory and wealth, and even in the same country, the environment and conditions are different. In order to accurately control the policies and systems, Chairman Mao absorbed the concept of "province" in the political system of the Yuan Dynasty period, so that it can not only manage it in different regions, but also make the entire country hug each other tightly.
This political system adopted by Chairman Mao not only ensures that national policies can be implemented accurately and smoothly, but also cuts off the crisis of division at the source.
Take off the new China
New China was built on the ruins of war. At that time, China was full of holes and was in ruins. However, on the world stage, some countries were unwilling to let go of this newly born country, which made China initially struggle on the road of development.
Fortunately, Chairman Mao has a wise governance policy within and has a keen control over the international situation. He used precise decisions to make the new China go through those shaky years.
In the summer of 1950, under the leadership of Chairman Mao, the Third Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held. At this meeting, he proposed the overall task of improving the country's fiscal and economic conditions. Unfortunately, New China can still make great strides on the road of development, and the clouds of war once again enveloped the country.
In October 1950, the US military transported weapons and equipment to North Korea, which was only one river from China, posing a serious threat to the Northeast.
At that time, the US military was invincible. New China had no guns or artillery. No one thought China could take on this war. However, under the leadership of Chairman Mao, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to respond to North Korea's request for help and carry out the war to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea.
The victory of this war has enhanced China's international status and shattered the US imperial ambitions. China's development environment has gradually improved.
While Resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea , domestic development has not stagnated. Under the leadership of Chairman Mao, the trend of democratic reforms such as land reform swept across the country. At the same time, corruption, waste and bureaucracy have also become the key acts of the state to crack down on.
It can be said that Chairman Mao’s various policies laid the basic line of China and inspired the people to contribute to the construction of the motherland.
Summary:
Chairman Mao is undoubtedly a great man worthy of respect and remembering in history. Many of his theories are still applicable in China. Just like in the photo, many young people living in the modern era still enjoy the coolness in the shadow of this giant, and his thoughts are still full of vitality.
The Chinese workers' movement is Pei Yili's research direction, and this also gives the Harvard professor a profound understanding of Chairman Mao.
In that dark era, Chairman Mao led the Chinese people to find a bright path. His theories and ideas not only helped the country win the victory of the War of Resistance, but also led the people on the road of prosperity and strength. He led China on the path of socialist development and constructively opened up his own development path for China.
