Mao Tse Tung

Few people in history deserve sole credit for changing the fate of an entire nation. One of them is Mao Tse-tung, the man who rose from the peasantry to become the pre-eminent revolutionary theorist, political leader and statesman of Communist China (CNN, 2001). Mao Tse Tung was born on December 1893 in a village of Shaoshan in Hunan Province (China's south). His family is wealthy peasant farmers. He has one sister and two younger brothers. Mao lives with his mother's family in a neighboring village until he is eight. He then returns to Shaoshan to begin his education. When he was 10 he ran away from school. Due to expulsion from school three times, his father refuses to pay fees for his education. At the age of 14 Mao married with an 18 years old cousin of his called Lou, but he never lived with her long because she died at the very young age in 1910. Mao is allowed to resume his schooling. At age 16, and against his father's wishes, he leaves Shaoshan and enrolls in a nearby higher primary school (Wise, 2007). It is during this period that his political consciousness begins to develop. (Wise, 2007). It is during this period that his political consciousness begins to develop. In this essay I will be discussing Mao Tse Tung idea & thinking.

In 1937, Japanese invasion forced the CCP & Kuomintang once again to form united front, Mao rise in stature as a national leader as the communist gained the authority as defender of the Chinese homeland. Within this period through his publication in 1937 of such essays as "On Contradiction" and "On Practice," he was the military thinker he is acknowledged as an important Marxist thinker. "On New Democracy" (1940) outlined a exceptional national form of Marxism appropriate to China; his "Talks at the Yen-ad Forum on Literature and Art" (1942) provided a basis for party control over cultural associations (Chen, 2001).

The Japanese invasion during W.W.11, forced the CCP and the Kuomintang to form a united front. Mao Tse-tung rose in stature as a national leader. Under Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese Communist Party membership rose from 40,000 members in 1937 to 1,200,000 members in 1945. After the end of W.W.11, the united front split and civil war erupted. The Chinese Communist Party came to power and Chiang's government was forced to flee to Taiwan. When the United States rebuffed Mao Tse-tung, China developed a close alliance with the USSR. During the early 1950s, Mao Tse-tung served as chairman of the Communist party, chief of state, and chairman of the military commission. (Hooker, 1996).

. Mao also includes “NEW DEMOCRACY” as his theory Democracy" as "democratic centralism." Democratic centralism is a core of dictatorshipвЂ""a dictatorship of all revolutionary classes," in Mao's wordsвЂ"power would be concentrated in the hands of a few in order to guarantee that all class interests are represented. In 1949 when Mao came to authority over mainland china he renamed the New Democracy to the People's Democratic Dictatorship. It was done to assured reactionary counter-revolutionary voices would not have a say in government or have the ability to sway the opinions of the people. The centralization of authority, as outlined above, would guarantee that the government will carried according