Mao's Revolution: What Remains

China expert and Harvard political scientist Roderick MacFarquhar joins UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism Dean Orville Schell for a lecture and discussion of the lasting impact of Chairman Mao's Communist Revolution in China. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents" [12/2005] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11239]

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• Communism
• Mao
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• MacFarquhar
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[AlienBusDriver]

@Kameron898 If your from China and a true communist why are you circumventing the Governments firewall and posting on youtube. You should have enough respect to follow the CCCP'S laws which is no undue outside influence and definitely NO YOUTUBE, make like a tree and scram.

[Kameron898]

@hillerm: Russian disrespected Stalin, that's why their Communist Party fell in 1991. We Chinese are not going to make the same mistake. Mao and his theory are the foundation of CCP. Without respecting him, the legitimacy of CCP will be decimated. I know the consequence of it and I will keep supporting Maoism.

[hillerm]

@Kameron898

Too bad 40 million Chinese aren't around to respect him as much as you do BECAUSE THEY'RE DEAD. They were killed as a direct result of his idiocy and jealousy.

Russians disrespect Stalin because he truly was a bad leader. Mao was a bad leader as well. He should have handed over the country to people like Deng on the first day after the revolution. A lot of people would still be alive now if he did.

Mao is the mostly deadly leader in history. He killed more people than Hitler.

[Kameron898]

@hillerm: I also notice u emphasize the difference between Mao and Deng a lot. That is true. However, they are both brave and brilliant communist fighters. U Americans want we Chinese to believe that Deng is better than Mao. This small little trick cannot work at all. We will not make the same mistake Russian made after Stalin's death - that is to completely neglect and humiliate their great leaders.

Chairman Mao is a Great leader and he is the real founder of our country, we respect him forever

[Kameron898]

@hillerm: I have to say that many achievements during CR have been ignored by you. 1. PRC returned to UN in 1972. 2. Nuclear weapons 1969. 3. Man-made Insulin 4. China won the Vietnam War and beat USA away 5. PRC and Soviet Union broke up and so on..

PRC's international status and military power were built and they are recognized by foreigners until now. That is a huge legacy from Chairman Mao The Great.

Without this legacy, Deng cannot succeed

[hillerm]

@Kameron898

Deng was already succeeding in reformation before the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution happened partially to steal power away from revisionist leaders like Deng.

Mao achieved nothing as a leader. The country was in shambles during his lifetime. The country lost its economic power, educational system, dignity, and over 40 million people. It was one failure after another until Mao's death.

After his death, real leaders like Deng came in and began to actually help.

[Kameron898]

@hillerm: I k that u westerners want us to conduct political reformation asap. That is our civil affair, thanks for your kindness and we dun want westerners to help any more.

[Kameron898]

@hillerm : Caesar, Alexander the Great and many other great guys also killed a lot of people. The reason is to build a new world. In this sense, China now is completely different after Cultural Revolution. Now in China, scholars are not respected, including Confucius. We also dun believe in any gods any more. That's why we are developing rapidly now. We believe in money, sex and power now.

Without Cultural Revolution, Deng cannot succeed in reformation.

[hillerm]

@Kameron898

I'm an American living in Shanghai. I think you're delusional. Mao killed so many people, and for what?

The Revolution failed.

You believe China is Communist? Communism died when Deng became leader.

[Kameron898]

I am a supporter of Chairman Mao and I am from China.

I know the truth about Cultural Revolution, however, I love communism and CCP much more since then.

CR purified China so that PRC didn't collapse in the year 1989 like other communist countries did.

Long live PRC and Long live Communism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!