What are the philosophical works of mMao Tse Tung?

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Mao Tse Tung ; his philosophical writings and propounds; a current analogy:

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Muweesi charles,

Makerere university,

cmuweesi@educ.mak.ac.ug,

+256779669475What are the philosophical works of Mao Tse Tung?Mao Tse Tung was born on 26, December 1893 in the village called Shaoshan in human province in southern china. Basically, his family was of prosperous peasant farmers. He established his tender life in his mother's family which was located in the neighboring village until he reached eight years. He returned to Shaoshan to begin his education. Automatically Mao joined a junior high school in 1911 at Changsha the provincial capital where he was briefly active in the republican revolution against Manchu Qing dynasty. Mao continued with studies up to when he graduated in1918 and preceded his working career to Beijing University. As he was working, he emerged a Marxist, Leninist and he came to believe that the greatest potential for a revolution in china.

In 1920, he returned to Changsha as a head of primary school. Furthermore, in 1921 he was elected to be the chairman of Chinese communist party. Finally, Mao led the Chinese communist party to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese civil war and was the leader of the people's republican of china from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Mao Tse Tung propounds many ideologies and views which were with respect to the communism for example he said that; "communism is not love. Communism is a hummer which we use to crush the enemy". It should be noted that Mao's views were essential in the political formation of many states inspite of weaknesses embedded in his ideologies. The following are the views established by Mao Tse Tung;

Mao Tse Tung was a proponent of revolutions. In this way, he supported the revolutionary wars and once quoted to have said that; "a revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay or painting a picture or doing embroidery". He continued to say that; "communism is not love. Communism is a hummer which we use to crush the enemy". This is justifiable in the scenario where he joined the republican revolution through a local army unit and even when he organized a serious revolution against the Kuomintang. Such revolutionary ideas draw a true picture to signify that Mao Tse Tung was a typical proponent of revolutions.

He continued to reveal communism as a good political ideology to follow in the same line with Marxist-Leninist. He came to believe that the greatest potential for in China lies with the peasantry class was the oppressed in comparison with others, so he had to agitate for communism to equalize politics in china.

According to Mao, every woman who was capable to work had to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. He recognized the position of women in the society and he had it that they are supposed to work and serve their nation like the men and to be given equal wage with men per unit work being done. This boosted the status of women in China.

He continues to say that genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. He had it that socialism was to unify all sexes in their respective societies to ensure harmony, cooperation and unity between men and women.

He also argued that; "in general any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance". This means that any exercise or work performed collectively in china was going to train the Chinese how to work hard for the best of china as their country.

He continued to say that; "investigation may be linked to the long months of pregnancy" and solving a problem to the masses about the necessity of sensitizing the masses about the necessity of investigating a problem for a long period so as to look for measures of solving such problems.

The political ideas propounded by Mao Tse Tung were so important to the political organization of the state. They were also socially and economically constructive as follows;

Politically Mao agitated for communism which was intended to create political order in china and promotion of the spirit of brotherhood amongst the Chinese. This was to create good governance, equitable share of national cake hence constructing unity and political harmony within the country.

He also encouraged investigation in solving of problems encountering the people. He said that; "investigation may be linked to the long months of pregnancy", and solving a problem to the day of birth. In this he called upon all the people to research slowly about the problems facing china in order to solve them in most efficient way. This was a step to create a political order in china.

Socially, Mao encouraged equity of all sexes. He said that; "genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of socialist transformation of society as a whole". This intended to boost the status of women in society to ensure harmony amongst the Chinese.

Critiques

Mao's ideas were not constructive to the Chinese due to some negative aspects manifested in his regime with the following analysis;

Mao held all the arts of china in his hands. He claimed the role of transformation of culture. Mao, far more widely read and with a comparable subtlety of mind, has clearly determined to accept the position thrust on him and no one can fore see the changes in the basic structure of Chinese culture which will derive ultimately from his will. During his time, Mao claimed all powers and vision to be in his hand without giving chances to other Chinese. This caused problems when he died in 1976. There was a power struggle for control of china; on one side the left wing led by a gang of four, who wanted to continue the policy of revolutionary mass and the right wing was opposing these policies. The restoration led by the chairman HUA Guofeng advocated a return to central planning along the soviet model. This political confusion came because he had not involved other personalities in national planning. Such confusion led to loss of life and economic decline in china.

Mao put no value on human life, in his speech; he talked about massive earth moving irrigation projects and numerous big industrial ones yet all required huge numbers of people. He said that; "if the projects are all under taken simultaneously, half of china's population unquestionably will die". Mao talked about mass death in highly irresponsible, provocative, callous and reckless ways exemplified by his famous remark that; "in a nuclear war, half of china's population would perish but the rest would survive and rebuild". Such reckless and uncivilized remarks provide a firm platform for one to criticize Mao Tse Tung for being a terrorist.

Mao also supported revolutions which claimed the lives of Chinese. He was so aggressive and once quoted to have said that; "communism isn't love; communism isn't a hammer which we use to crush the enemy". This draws the true picture to

Highlight a fact that Mao was a man of war. This can be supplemented by his joining a republican revolution when he was still in a junior high school in 1911 at Changsha. These revolutions supported by Mao claimed between 40-70 million people in his region.

Mao in his regime appeared as a typical dictator. So historians claim that Mao was a dictator comparable to Hitler and Stalin. Mao was also frequently compared to china's first emperor Qin Shin Huang notorious for burying a live hundreds of scholars and liked the comparison. During a speech to party cadre in 1958, Mao said that he had far outdone Qin Shi Huang in his policy against intellectuals. He buried 460 scholars alive; "we haveburied forty-six thousand scholars alive. You (intellectuals) revile us for being Qin Shi Huang you are wrong. We have surpassed Qin Shi Huang a hundred fold". This really shows how dictatorial Mao was and it's fair for one to discredit Mao of being a nationalist.

Relevance

The ideas revealed by Mao Tse Tung are really relevant to many countries presently in the world in both positive and negative aspects;

Some countries are still practicing communism for example china, Yemen republic, Iran, and many Asian countries. The people in these countries are supposed to work together and the government owns all resources for the people. This ideology has led to the prosperity of countries like china.

Mao Tse Tung agitated for equality of sexes that is men and women. This is really practiced in many countries for example USA, France, German, Kenya, Uganda among others, where many women have open chances to stand and compete for political positions with men. Today in many countries women are paid equally per unit output like men. Hence his philosophy has spearheaded the prosperity of gender equality in the world.

He also discussed about the problem solving technique which is really applied in many countries. In these countries there are parliaments which are supposed to solve problems gradually and diplomatically. This has influenced the prosperity of the peace and unity plus fighting strategies for the problems encountering people in their status.

However on another side, Mao was an egoistic to the extent of putting all cultural settings in his hands. This is relevant to some leaders in the world who think that they are the only who can plan and transform their countries. This is true in the sense that dictatorial presidents like those in Africa always claim to be the only vision in their respective countries. This has discouraged other people in their political parties fail to stand in for presidential posts and this really percolated deeply into their minds that its only a few who have visions. This is wrong because in case of a political confusion, it can lead to the down fall and a similar incident took place in china after the death of Mao Tse Tung in 1976.

Dictatorial regimes are still prevailing in the present day's states. Today presidents are deciding many things in their countries without consulting parliaments. For example president Museveni took the army to Congo Kinshasa without consulting the parliament; in Iraq president Sadam Hussein in 1990s ordered for the death of many people in that country and in the same way Mao contributed to the death of 40-70 million people in his regime.

Revolutionary wars are being established in same countries today. In Uganda in 1978, a liberation movement was organized to check the Dictatorship of Idd Amin Dada, and in Rwanda, Rwandan's patriotic front was organized against the government of president Abyarimana. These revolutions were agitated by Mao Tse Tung but however it should be noted that they were so destructive in terms of property and peoples lives.

In conclusion, it should be noted greatly that Mao's philosophical ideologies are so destructive because they admit revolutionary wars, violence and dictatorship.

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