Revolution

=** Revolution **= = **Essential Questions:** =

**1. Who should decide what is best for ‘the people’?** The people should decide what is best for themselves. As well as the elected individuals that were chosen to lead their state. **2. What makes people comply or reject?** The ideals of the parties involved in a revolution. People comply when they are given incentive, and when they are being restricted they reject. **3. What makes a revolution successful?** The amount of people backing and the power of those people. Unified organisation with a strong leader and lots of funds. **4. Who are the winners in a political revolution?** The people who are left after the fighting. Those that are able to shift the public support to help themselves. **5. What causes change in a society?** Inequality and discrimination. Gradual change can come from peaceful means but immediate change can from revolutionary/violent action.

=** Revolution: **=


 * ** Define it in your own words: ** Action taken to overthrow the current party in power to benefit the people leading the revolution.
 * ** Look up a definition of the term: ** A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
 * ** What are characteristics or acts you associate with Revolutions: ** Military action, rebel militia, civilian casualties, oppression, and freedom.

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=Rank the 3 Topics discussed:=
 * 1.** Justice. I think that Justice is more important because Justice is the force that punishes criminals and praises the innocent.
 * 2.** Liberty
 * 3.** Equality

This political cartoon is saying that equality is not always just.

Response to Video on Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the first ruler of Communist China, he was also the man responsible for the deaths of several million Chinese people. After Mao came into power his tactics were to make anyone who was rich or a landowner to make them public enemies and have them be shunned, which resulted in many suicides. While Mao did give women rights to was simply to have them working on the communes with the men. Mao was also know to torture and kill people who did not agree with communism. When Mao let the Red Guard loose on China it was to destroy unfaithful communists and traces of foreign influence. Mao Zedong made everyone equal by taking all land and shops, then making people work on communes.

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.


 * — From //Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement// in // Hun an //**

This quote is saying that revolutions are bloody affairs, they are not things that can be approached with naive kindness.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.


 * — From //Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of// Work **

This quote is saying that revolutions need the support of masses to succeed.

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.


 * — From //Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War// **

War is a last resort for solving problems and only after many stages have been cleared.

Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."


 * — From //Problems of War and Strategy// **

Communists must realize that they will only succeed if they use force.

That a revolution will be violent, must be supported by the masses, there must be a political change and there must be strong armies.
 * __**According to the quotes above how might Mao Zedong define revolution**__?


 * __**Do you agree with quotes of Mao? Why or why not? (use specific evidence from the quotes) **__

I do agree with his quotes pretty much entirely. I think this way simply because the way Mao describes revolution is the way that most revolutions have been violent. I do not agree with the last quote entirely because some political power can come from democratic change.

Comments on Pro China Video:
What do you see in the video? What is missing?

I see lots of buildings and industrial looking buildings, there lots of advertising and business,

I do not see many people, there are not many pictures of nature.