China expert and Harvard political scientist Roderick MacFarquhar joins UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism Dean Orville Schell for a lecture and discussion of the lasting impact of Chairman Mao’s Communist Revolution in China. Series: “UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents” [12/2005] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11239]
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Interesting – two of the things he mentioned that he didn’t see happening, has happened since 2005 when this talk was given. I believe in the past few years, they have started to develop a Blue Water Navy. Likewise, there have been “experiments” taking place in Shanghai with elections…
mao caused china 25 years of chaos and backwards development, you can respect mao for his leadership ability, but overall he was too power hungry. There are many people who have can have leadership ability, but few that place the country’s well-being over themselves. Mao was only one of the many, people like sun yat-sen deserve the real respect
“Wage Slavery” is just as if saying farmers have “Food Slavery”. You have to compare China’s path and the progress made by Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.
The Chinese People’s Volunteers could easily beat the South Koreans militarily in the 1950s, and the country was richer than SK in the 1950s. You try that in 1976? The country fell behind during the Mao years.
Deng Xiaoping is responsible for the wage slavery that is done to chinese proletarians.
So are you also going to blame Roosevelt for letting 13-30 Million Americans die of famine in the Great Depression? No, stop the demagoguery, the Soviet system in a backwards country creates difficulties as any large policy change does.
Yes Comrade, make the ideas of Mao’s democratic centralism and the constant struggle for workers democracy the ideal of China! Do not forget “Every Communist must face the truth: ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun’”. I was quite excited at the false alarm of the reported coup against the capitalist CCP…
But anyway, China is on the road to complete industrialisation and will inevitably become socialist. Red Front!
I agree Comrade, often Mao is associated with bureaucrat state capitalism, but read what he actually writes he is warning of bureaucrat capitalists as in USSR under Kruschev and reformism. “[if the enemy came in] the Marxist-Leninist Party would undoubtedly become a revisionist party or a fascist party, and the whole of China would change its colour.” How right Chairman Mao was… i cannot think of a better description of the current CCP.
lol
we in the usa are getting ready to xperience our red october then watch are land takin away for the good of the collective and sent to camps for not conforming to the new socialism
This is the first objective critical thinking on Mao I heard from west society. While we have been brain washed by fox day by day using the blind attack on Mao and communism, it is impressive to get to know such deep and insightful research on Mao in the US.
/eats popcorn
Roderick MacFarquhar has a small bourgeois mind. The idea of him understanding the mind of a great man like Mao is ridiculous. Everything he thinks is a benefit is actually a huge loss to China and the world. The Cultural Revolution was good because it kept the counter-revolutionary scum at bay, for a time. What we need now is another Cultural Revolution to get rid of all the Dengist rats in China, and all the bourgeois rats in the rest of the world.
If your from China and a true communist why are you circumventing the Governments firewall and posting on youtube. You should have enough respect to follow the CCCP’S laws which is no undue outside influence and definitely NO YOUTUBE, make like a tree and scram.
@hillerm: Russian disrespected Stalin, that’s why their Communist Party fell in 1991. We Chinese are not going to make the same mistake. Mao and his theory are the foundation of CCP. Without respecting him, the legitimacy of CCP will be decimated. I know the consequence of it and I will keep supporting Maoism.
Too bad 40 million Chinese aren’t around to respect him as much as you do BECAUSE THEY’RE DEAD. They were killed as a direct result of his idiocy and jealousy.
Russians disrespect Stalin because he truly was a bad leader. Mao was a bad leader as well. He should have handed over the country to people like Deng on the first day after the revolution. A lot of people would still be alive now if he did.
Mao is the mostly deadly leader in history. He killed more people than Hitler.
@hillerm: I also notice u emphasize the difference between Mao and Deng a lot. That is true. However, they are both brave and brilliant communist fighters. U Americans want we Chinese to believe that Deng is better than Mao. This small little trick cannot work at all. We will not make the same mistake Russian made after Stalin’s death – that is to completely neglect and humiliate their great leaders.
Chairman Mao is a Great leader and he is the real founder of our country, we respect him forever
@hillerm: I have to say that many achievements during CR have been ignored by you. 1. PRC returned to UN in 1972. 2. Nuclear weapons 1969. 3. Man-made Insulin 4. China won the Vietnam War and beat USA away 5. PRC and Soviet Union broke up and so on..
PRC’s international status and military power were built and they are recognized by foreigners until now. That is a huge legacy from Chairman Mao The Great.
Without this legacy, Deng cannot succeed
Deng was already succeeding in reformation before the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution happened partially to steal power away from revisionist leaders like Deng.
Mao achieved nothing as a leader. The country was in shambles during his lifetime. The country lost its economic power, educational system, dignity, and over 40 million people. It was one failure after another until Mao’s death.
After his death, real leaders like Deng came in and began to actually help.
@hillerm: I k that u westerners want us to conduct political reformation asap. That is our civil affair, thanks for your kindness and we dun want westerners to help any more.