Quote: (10-02-2014 10:33 AM)TravelerKai Wrote:
Quote: (10-02-2014 08:22 AM)clever alias Wrote:
Quote: (10-02-2014 06:51 AM)GyopoPlayboy Wrote:
@clever alias,
I know what you mean to say but you're confusing 2 different things. Confucianism is a philosophy, not an economic system. Its entirely possible for both of these to coexist side by side.
And they do.
Mao didnt get rid of Confucianism. You can't "get rid" of what has basically been at the root of a culture for thousands of years.
yes you can, and mao did. it was called the cultural revolution
The Cultural Revolution had nothing to do with capitalism. If anything it sought to destroy all semblances of capitalism. Mao fashioned it after Marxism and Leninism. It was designed to be a grassroots socialism program. This is a big subject when is not really in scope of this thread but Mao overall wanted to make China strong through hard work/labor, make things efficient, and create a unified China for the first time ever. He also wanted to destroy any amount of descent from this unified doctrine. The biggest problem with Mao is that he never wanted to actually end the revolution and move the country forward. He was insecure and knew that his brainwashed followers would do anything for him if they always had an imaginary enemy to chase (eg. the Red Guards chasing people, etc). So he basically kept the revolution going non-stop. He never got off the revolution train and as a result millions starved to death (possibly more than back in WW2), were killed, and it set China back progress wise many decades. That's not capitalism. There was no free enterprise during his rule.
China was so bad when he was done Deng literally had to start all over from the beginning. Anyone educated was killed or made into a farmer for so long, they had no specialists and to use labor again to borrow and steal until they could get the knowledge on many things back to start rebuilding the country.
really? it was against capitalism? this is history man, 四旧, none of them were capitalism, it was a direct atack against chinese history and culture, which did not include capitalism. that was taken care of in the hundred flowers campaign, though being deemed a capitalist roader usually meant death