OEQM

1. Number one is saying that you can’t be nice and have a revolution in one. You have to be harsh and violent. If you want to revolutionise, then you have to accept that it will be violent and harsh. It also says that in a revolution, one social class must overthrow the other otherwise it is not a revolution.

6. Mao is saying in this quote that he believes that ideas do not come from a person’s mind at birth. They come from experience. Experiences of science, social practice and class struggle. Mao believes that these ideas are only from experience and not from your own personality. “In the West imperialism is still oppressing the people at home. This situation must change. It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism.” This means that the US was brainwashing the people of China. That they should stay true to themselves and not go into what America says.

“The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you.” The young people are the important people in the world. THey are the future of China, but they need to stay Chinese and not become American.

1.Mao believed that errors and difficulties could be solved with new and current ideas. This made him quite different to Confucius who believed that problems could be solved with looking into the past and the things that happened in olden-time China. He thought that the traditional China could solve all the issues that were found in modern day China too. 2.I believe that Mao believed in being cautious. I think that although he took chances in his political decisions, he was also a politician. And all politicians must be cautious however revolutionary they might see themselves as. 3.Confucius believed in ignorance; not needing knowledge all the time, and allowing yourself to not know the answers to some questions. Mao, however, believed that young people should be given a useful and broad education and children are the future. 4.Mao believed that old books were not rewarding to read. Modern culture and existence was key. This differs from Confucius because he was always looking to the past where as Mao wanted to be revolutionary. 5.I don’t think that Confucius would have agreed with Mao’s ideas. Mao was a new modern thinker which went against everything that Confucius thought. Confucius was not revolutionary. He believed that traditional China was perfect and should be maintained not changed. Mao believed differently. 6.Although it isn’t clear in his quotes alone, i think that Mao is revolutionary so would not have believed in Confucius’ old ideas of respect in the home. I think he would have seen it as acceptable for a son and a father to have equal respect in the home. Not for the Father to be the one who overcomes the son all the time.