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//"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined; so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained, and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."// This quote reveals Mao Zedong's beliefs and attitude towards revolutions. He states that a revolution can never be a peaceful movement by any means, because the nature of revolutions are bound to be violent and forceful. We can trace the ideas of Marxist Communism in the idea of one class overthrowing another, which comes from Mao's strong communist point of view.

//"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 US imperialism."// Mao opposes the idea of imperialism, but specifically the US imperialism because at the time US held views opposite from China's communistic government. Mao did not want any US influence in China, and wanted to liberate China from control under Western nations. US imperialism showed the US dominance over China, and as a country with growing power, Mao wanted China to stand as an independent country. Mao also wants US imperialism in general to come to an end, and calls for the whole world to cooperate in ending US imperialism.

//"Wherever there is struggle, there is sacrifice, and death is a common occurrence. But we have the interests of the people and the sufferings of the great majority at heart, and when we die for the people it is a worthy death. Nevertheless, we should do our best to avoid unnecessary sacrifices."// This quote further elaborates on the first quote explaining Mao Zedong's attitude towards revolutions. He accepts the violent nature of revolutions and views death while fighting for the country honorable and glorifying. He says dying for the people (of the country) is a worthy death, and encourages people to strongly participate in revolutions and fight for what their country. Through presenting people with his ideas about revolutions and honoring sacrifices such as the loss of lives, Mao plants in the minds of the Chinese people a strong revolutionary spirit.

//"Protect the interests of the youth, women, and children-- provide assistance to young students who cannot afford to continue their studies, help the youth and women to organize in order to participate on an equal footing in all work useful to the war effort and to social progress, ensure freedom of marriage and equality as between men and women, and giver young people and children a useful education..."// Mao Zedong greatly understands the importance of citizens in revolutions and tries to motivate people to work harder, in order to make every person useful in every way possible. By providing the youth education, he plans to ensure educated leaders in the future, as well as an intellectual population to help in social progress. Also by placing women on equal footings with men, he tried to encourage everyone, no matter which position or class you were a part of, to work and take part in developing the country. Mao's revolutionary plans lies within the efforts of the citizens and not the leader, so he manipulates the minds of the citizens and motivates them to work harder.

//"Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle, and scientific experiment."// Mao believes in progress and success from social practices. First, his struggle for production refers to the competition within the country to increase productions. The class struggle refers to the people of China uniting as one with strong nationalistic views to all work for China's progress. Third, the scientific experiment as mentioned in a quote before, refers to the experiences of discovering, inventing, creating and advancing. Mao set very ambitious goals for China's development, and put everyone straight to work to and try and speed up China's growth.