Maoism In China

Maoism

Maoism is the following of Mao Zedong. Maoism formed during the 1950s and 60s. The belief system of Maoism was spread out through the military and the Communist Party. The Cultural Revolution was based on the ideas of Maoism.

The ideas of Maoism are based off of the working class. In Maoism they treat workers that have less materialistic items of more value than wealthy people. If you were wealthy Maoist believed you should give up most of your luxury items. You should also start to work manually. The most praised workers were farmers. Farmers were considered the most valued people in Maoism because they were usually the hardest workers and the least wealthy.

Maoism was installed into peoples head in many different ways. Propaganda was everywhere during the Cultural Revolution. It was in art, literature, television, newspapers and the government's sayings. In the propaganda it would always make Revolutionaries or Maoist better than the counterrevolutionaries. The Maoist would always be larger and more physically physique. Politicians would have many people gathered before a speech hoping that people that were against the revolution would follow the others and become a revolutionaries. In movies the revolutionaries would always be the hero while the counterrevolutionaries would be the enemy in the movie. That is how propaganda changed daily life. People also changed their daily life when the little red book was published. It contained Mao’s sayings. People would salute Chairman Mao with a chat everyday. People would also carry around the book everywhere they would go. Some people went to the extreme and memorized the entire book. This is one of the quotes from the book: “Without the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party, without the Chinese Communists as the mainstay of the Chinese people, China can never achieve independence and liberation, or industrialization and the modernization of her agriculture.” This is what people believed because it was coming from who they believe the most, Chairman Mao. That is what Maoism was and how it affected daily life.