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Paths to Modernisation
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Do you think that Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China were successful in liberating China and laying the basis its current success ?

Answer

Mao Zedong and communist party of china were successful in liberating china.

1. Unlike the traditional Marxist idea of revolution of the workers, Mao Zedong brought a revolution based on the peasantry.

2. Unlike the dictatorship of the proletariat of the soviet union, he established a new democracy in China, where all social classes were considered equal.

3. Emphasised on central control over key areas of economy and private enterprise and private ownership were gradually abolished.

4. To galvanise industrial development, the great leap forward movement was launched in which households were encouraged to build furnaces in their backwards.

5. Agriculture was organised in the farm of communes. This raised the productivity.

6. Emphasis was placed in ideology and cultural revolution was brought under which students and professionals were sent to the countryside to learn.

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