Communist Manifesto Chapter Summary
Introduction
At the beginning of the twentieth century, an interesting and special period began in Chinese history when the powerful western countries were trying to dominate China as much as possible. Their ambition grew when they found abundant resources in China and their invading action was aroused due to the incompetence of the Qing government. Gradually, some regions of China became semi-colonies. On the one hand, Chinese people’s human rights were deprived under the colonial domination, resulting in Chinese people’s resent to these western countries. On the other hand, the invasion of the Western Powers also brought modern thought and led many thinkers and activists to look for the best ideology among these thoughts to extricate …show more content…
With the help of these books, Mao started embrace of Marxism that attached great importance to mass power and social classes (Snow 1969, 155). The shifting of Mao’s mind into Marxism was a corollary. First, the social movements that Mao had experienced and witnessed the power of lower classes resulted in his agreement to Marxism. In addition, in 1920 when Mao organized a celebration for the third anniversary of the Russian October Revolution with other members of Hsin Min HsuehHui, their action was oppressed by the police. Although some of the members argued that they did not break any law, the police was not impressed and replied that they only listened to the orders of the governor. Through observation, he came to understand that “only mass political power, secured through mass action, could guarantee the realization of dynamic form” (Snow 1969, 155). Second, the idea of Marxism was coincident with the outlaw book favored by Mao glorifying “men of arms, and rule of the people”. Mao had perceived that these books also discussed the idea of mass power and class struggle. As a result, a belief took root in Mao’s mind that people from the lower class can successfully overthrow the power of the ruling class. According Mao’s words, these books inspired him and made him interest in revolution since his childhood (Snow 1969, 128). Third, Mao’s political opinion of a mixture idea of liberalism, democratic reformism, and Utopia Socialism” also led him to accept the idea of
At the beginning of the twentieth century, an interesting and special period began in Chinese history when the powerful western countries were trying to dominate China as much as possible. Their ambition grew when they found abundant resources in China and their invading action was aroused due to the incompetence of the Qing government. Gradually, some regions of China became semi-colonies. On the one hand, Chinese people’s human rights were deprived under the colonial domination, resulting in Chinese people’s resent to these western countries. On the other hand, the invasion of the Western Powers also brought modern thought and led many thinkers and activists to look for the best ideology among these thoughts to extricate …show more content…
With the help of these books, Mao started embrace of Marxism that attached great importance to mass power and social classes (Snow 1969, 155). The shifting of Mao’s mind into Marxism was a corollary. First, the social movements that Mao had experienced and witnessed the power of lower classes resulted in his agreement to Marxism. In addition, in 1920 when Mao organized a celebration for the third anniversary of the Russian October Revolution with other members of Hsin Min HsuehHui, their action was oppressed by the police. Although some of the members argued that they did not break any law, the police was not impressed and replied that they only listened to the orders of the governor. Through observation, he came to understand that “only mass political power, secured through mass action, could guarantee the realization of dynamic form” (Snow 1969, 155). Second, the idea of Marxism was coincident with the outlaw book favored by Mao glorifying “men of arms, and rule of the people”. Mao had perceived that these books also discussed the idea of mass power and class struggle. As a result, a belief took root in Mao’s mind that people from the lower class can successfully overthrow the power of the ruling class. According Mao’s words, these books inspired him and made him interest in revolution since his childhood (Snow 1969, 128). Third, Mao’s political opinion of a mixture idea of liberalism, democratic reformism, and Utopia Socialism” also led him to accept the idea of