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MAO ZEDONG
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EDUCATION& YOUTH GROUPS
The Chinese people praise and recognize Mao Zedong for imposing new education systems and mobilizing new youth groups, eliminating all bourgeois values and reshaping the Communist Party back to China.
It was the late 1960s when China was at a state of shifting to towards a “revisionist direction”, but due to Mao’s changes in the education system was he able to prevent our nation from following a misguided path.
“(In 1965) education in China... favored city over countryside, intellectual ability over class ..and 'expert' over 'red',” (New World Encyclopedia,). Professors at universities were more commonly appreciated for the knowledge they obtained about the world. Although students were exposed to different perspectives and systems of government worldwide, Our intelligent Mao Zedong spotted them as a threat to the communist population since global knowledge reintroduces Capitalist ideologies into the Republic of China. If bourgeoisie values were to overtake the political, economic, and educational systems in China, then hierarchy and social classes would have been reinforced. Not only that, but thanks to Mao, we are saved from equality being abolished for all Chinese citizens and saved personal income being the blocekd wall that allows citizens to strive for the need to develop the country.
Mao Zedong’s perspective on education were thankfully shifted. His aims were focused on “the strengthening of local community and especially local Party control over education,” (Asian History). This ideology, along with the use of personality cult, strengthened and attracted youth groups and former peasants. Mao then launched the Cultural Revolution “calling for a massive youth mobilization to take current party leaders to task for their embrace of bourgeois values and lack of revolutionary spirit,” (History.com). The movement rapidly formed a group of young radicals called the Red Guards, who ‘attacked and harassed members of China’s elderly and intellectual population,” (History.com) This was known as the Hundred Flowers Campaign, which helped reunite the Chinese people as communists. "Mao did prefer that young people end school or college early," (IB History) and "considered that classroom study should be oriented towards social, political and production needs," (IB History) which was more practical for the Chinese in regards to allowing them to support the Cultural Revolution faster and actually be able to apply the knowledge they learn from school. It also prevents the youth from having corrupted thoughts if they were to engage in academic studies.
If Mao Zedong had not spotted suspicious reactionary (intellectual population) actions, or caused the formation of the Red Guards, the communist population would have diminished, and greedy, bourgeois, Capitalist ideas would have reformed. The citizens of China recognize Mao Zedong for aiming to eliminate the intellectual population and causing the formation of the Red Guards, which saved Capitalist ideologies from returning to China.