MAO

How does Mao create a totalitarian state?

Control of Economy: Collectivization “The people's communes are good” 1958

“The vegetables are green, the pumpkins big, the harvest is bountiful” 1959

“We sell dry, clean, neat and selected cotton to the state” 1958

Control of Economy: Great Leap Forward rapidly industrialize and increase agricultural ouput forced collectivization of peasant land “Take steel as the key link, for a leap forward in all fields” 1958

“Ride the wind and cleave the waves to realize a Leap Forward in all fields” 1960

BUT… The Great Leap Forward is a huge failure! millions starve to death (maybe as high as 43 million)

Gov’t Terror: Purges “Anti-Rightist” Campaign Late 1950s Critics labeled “enemies” Reaction to 100 Flowers Bloom policy @ 1million victims

Purges Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966) Attempt to reinvent Chinese society for communism Wants to eliminate the “Four Olds” customs, habits, thoughts, and culture “enemies of the revolution” are killed, imprisoned, humiliated, etc.

Gov’t Terror: Prison Camps! Known as the laogai system (“reform through labor”) Many sent to “reeducation” camps maybe over 10,000,000 victims

IndoctrinatingYouth The Red Guard to arrest, beat, kill, humiliate threats to Mao generally made up of young people, like college students and teenagers

Gov’t Control and Censorship of Media Quotations From Chairman Mao Zeding (aka “Little Red Book”)

Control of Information

Visual Propaganda and Art

“Chairman Mao meets with model workers” 1964

“With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word 'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the word 'Usefullness‘”

“The reddest, reddest, red sun in our heart, Chairman Mao, and us together”

Kids love Mao!

“Warmly love chairman Mao” 1955

Mao is the sun! Mao is everything!!

His image is everywhere!!!

MAO is Preserved!!!