Revolution

=Revolution=



**Essential Questions:**
==**1. **Who should decide what is best for ‘the people’? ==

5. What causes change in a society?

 * Revolution: **


 * ** Define it in your own words: **

- an overthrow of a government to implement the people's theory of change for the better


 * ** Look up a definition of the term: **

-a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.


 * ** What are characteristics or acts you associate with Revolutions **

- violence - government - inequality - society - change - politics -protest -boycott

[|Revolutionary Ideas Template]

Rank: 1.Liberty 2.Equality 3.Justice

- I chose liberty because it gives people a platform to control their own lives without the fear of being condemned or even killed for not conforming to what the government wants. As long as as we abide by the law we can make the most of our lives.





Message: The message of this political cartoon is that equality isn't always just, by giving everybody the same thing and not making adjustments based on the individual people justice can not be established.

[|Chinese Revolution]

1. From the late 1800s to the 20th century, what were some of the "underlying" cause of unrest in China (Incubation period)

2. What changes occurred in China after the revolution of 1911? Nothing exactly changed after, the attempt to modernize China was unsuccessful, the poor did not prosper like the wealthy 3. Explain the role of the Nationalists and Communists in the Chinese Government The Nationalist, and the Communist 4. Highlight the role of Mao in China
 * Rids the private ownership of land
 * Nationalizes private business
 * "The Great Leap Forward", which resulted in thousands of deaths
 * Abolish the four oles
 * The Red Guard destroyed everything that was thought to be bad for communism
 * Granted the rights to women

Mao Video:
 * The rulers of dynasties were called Emperors
 * Isolationism
 * Europeans forced China's government to trade and even took control of some of the country
 * The Chinese civil war ended with the Communists gaining control of China
 * Mao's first priority was to erase any evidence of social inequality
 * Feeling that those in power did not serve the people, he called for a new cultural revolution

After watching the video its is evident Mao had a substantial impact on China, by stripping it of its Western influence Mao enforced Communism completely abolishing any evidence of social inequality. In attempt to propel the country forward Mao called for a new cultural revolution to revolt against those who did not serve the people. Mao policies did have good intentions, but the way he approached it was not just. Forming a young militia known as the Red Guard and sending people to these farms reminded me of the Khmer Rouge, which is why it ultimately failed causing many deaths. Mao started off wrong but made a good before dying by granting rights to women.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.


 * — From //Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan// **
 * A revolution is nothing less than shear violence, containing no happiness, only two sides fighting it out to the death.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.


 * — From //Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work// **


 * The revolutionary war is a war of groups in which they work together to seize victory by counting on their comrades

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.


 * — From //Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War// **


 * War is the last option when resolving conflicts, born from the development of private property and classes.

Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."


 * — From //Problems of War and Strategy// **


 * In order to take the outright political control, the armed struggle is an absolute necessity.

__**According to the quotes above how might Mao Zedong define revolution**__?


 * Mao Zedong might define revolution as shear violence between two sides using the armed struggle to gain the outright political control, and only by using military force to keep your party in power.

__**Do you agree with quotes of Mao? Why or why not? (use specific evidence from the quotes)**__


 * I agree with everyone besides the last one, Mao seems to understand that war is the last option when trying to solve a political problem which he states "War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions", but he thinks that it is the only way to gain the most political power, which is something I do not agree with, in
 * which he sates in "Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun", you may also gain and keep political powers with a democratic position