Day 31 – Q 4.How was Mao’s vision of communism different from that of Lenin? Analyse.
4. How was Mao’s vision of communism different from that of Lenin? Analyse.
माओ का साम्यवादी दृष्टिकोण लेनिन से अलग कैसे था? विश्लेषण करें।
Introduction:
Communism aims to achieve classless, stateless society with community ownership of resources where there is no inequality on the basis of income. Revolutions in Russia under Vladimir Lenin and in China under Mao Zedong were both inspired by Marxism which aimed to establish communist state.
Body:
Though both revolutions were based on the ideas of Karl Marx, they were modified according to circumstances and atmosphere in which revolution took place.
Mao’s vision of communism differed from Lenin in following sense
- While Lenin held that urban workers should form the revolutionary vanguard. Mao Zedong, on the other hand, believed that Communist revolutions should gestate among the rural peasantry, who would later join with their proletariat comrades in the cities to form classless paradises.
- Concept of New democracy in Maoism states that socialism can only be built through collaboration of all classes that includes peasants, proletariat and bourgeoisie while under democratic centralism concept of Lenin there would be communist party as the vanguard of proletariat which would ban all parties and create one party socialist-republic.
- Lenin promoted spread of communism in other countries (communist international) while Mao restricted himself to domestic area.
- Lenin focused on establishing heavy industries while Mao emphasized on decentralized industrial development. Ex: backyard furnaces-steel production.
- Mao believed that Bourgeois menace is ever-present, so there must be vigilant to prevent the corruption which culminated into Cultural Revolution of 1967-1977.
Conclusion:
Thus Mao Zedong adopted communism in a way to suit poor, backward, agrarian, non-industrialised china.
Best Answer: suraj sharma
