The History & Political Economy of Mao's China

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@ristekostadinov2820 Месяц назад

44:43 just a quick note on the population growth rate, during a famine people might choose not to have a child because scarcity of food (making more people dying than being born). China having potentially lost 30 million people by not having the 2% growth rate doesn't necessary mean that all of those people starved.

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

Exactly.

@voiceofchina1788 Месяц назад

@@redpen1917 whatever big stigma

@user24852-w Месяц назад

Don't have time to watch this now but really excited to watch later, your stuff is always a great materialist analysis and you have a great grasp of theory

@raymondhartmeijer9300 Месяц назад

It's good to learn that the famine and the steel-programme during the Great Leap Forward was criticized by the party just as it had happened, recognizing that mistakes were made.

@TheBucketSkill Месяц назад

You know how long i've waited for someone to even mention this? I've wanted to theorize what could of been done if the constructive criticism was actually heard and heeded to. No seriously tho. What if Mao just listened to cadres?

@brandonchauinfo Месяц назад

well researched, very informative, and nice insight into the complexities of building socialism in china. Another underrated Red Pen classic right here. would love a vid on the reform and opening up era edit: the section on the cultural revolution could be improved. the situation was more nuanced. id check out the article "the rise and fall of the gang of four" by Qi Xin when you have the chance

@8lec_R Месяц назад

Thankyou for your hard work

@YoussefMohamed-wo9mc Месяц назад

Very important video.

@Wang-s3p Месяц назад

Near the end I feel like you oversimplified Deng's return to power, Deng was removed the from the party in 1976 and it was Hua Guofeng who purged the Gang of 4. Deng would only be rehabilitated after the party bureaucracy had enough power to push Hua(Who was a compromise candidate as far back as 1972) into rehabilitating Deng in 1977, also important thing to note that the major reason why Lin Biao was criticized was the fact that it was thought that he was trying to assassinate Mao(which would have caused a tone of new problems), though no evidence of him being part of project 571 has been presented, his son Lin Liguo was behind it, potentially arousing suspicion about Lin Biao as a culprit.

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

That is fascinating. Regretfully, in a video this short, significant oversimplifications were made.

@Wang-s3p Месяц назад

@@redpen1917 Thats understandable that you might not be able to into much detail since it was more focused on Mao era China economics. Though if you ever decide to cover Project 571, I'd recommend The Tragedy Of Lin Biao Riding The Tiger During The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1971 (Frederick C. Teiwes Warren Sun) or The Lin Biao Incident: A Study of Extra-Institutional Factors In the Cultural Revolution - By Qiu Jin.

@ShiningSta18486 Месяц назад

@@Wang-s3p how then does his escape factor into this if he was innocent?

@Wang-s3p Месяц назад

@@ShiningSta18486 Because his security guards saw his wife(Ye Qun) and son(Li Guo) carrying Lin Biao whilst he was naked cause Lin Biao on sleeping pills, not to mention an alleged statement from Lin's daughter, Lin Liheng. Even Lin Biao's generals who all wrote(now banned in PRC) auto biographies, placed the blame of the coup and Lin's forced escape on Ye Qun and Lin Liguo, most notable of which is Wu Faxian's or Li Zuopeng's.

@seductive_fishstick8961 Месяц назад

Incredable video, proabably the single best video on the Maoist era. Amazing work, really starting to look forward to your uploads!

@konstantinospantos8708 Месяц назад

Hey, just discovered your channel recently and wanted to say you are not getting nearly as many views as you deserve, all your videos are so well made and incredibly informative. Please keep up the great work comrade. 🙏

@jacintovski Месяц назад

Are you going to continue this series through the Deng era and beyond? It would be pretty interesting to see a somewhat indepth analysis of Xi's policies and their relation to socialism.

@seductive_fishstick8961 Месяц назад

I second this, i would love to see a full breakdown of the PRCs political and economy history up to today

@mcgoombs Месяц назад

Yes please!!

@B_Estes_Undegöetz Месяц назад

Agreed! Seeing as how the critique of Marxism always falls back upon its supposed “failures” when really used by those who initially at least might have been trying to be guided by its principles, it would be very interesting if RedPen here would embark on a critical analysis of the historical compromises and deviations from Marixism and / or Marxism-Leninism that have since accumulated by the Chinese regimes that have followed Mao’s rule.

@Karkafs-Desiderium Месяц назад

You didn't even mention Hua Guofeng once when talking about the switch of power from Mao to Deng, Hua is so forgotten in history🤣Great video👍

@musicdev Месяц назад

God dammit I knew you were cooking up something big ;) very excited to watch this

@misanthropyunhinged Месяц назад

subscribed

@jimtroeltsch5998 Месяц назад

fantastic video! Thanks!

@thetechnostate316 Месяц назад

Very much enjoyed this video but I’m sad to see that judging by the other comments you don’t agree with J. Sakai’s Settlers anymore

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

Yes. I think there are lots of problems with Sakai. I’ll probably make a video addressing why I took it down.

@jstevinik3261 7 дней назад

@@redpen1917 I think that he is write to point out that settler proletarians do not sure with indigenous peoples because they benefit from the legacy of their genocidal history.

@anglo-irishbolshevik3425 Месяц назад

Thank-you, very interesting because it describes events in a materialist context.

@Srijit1946 8 дней назад

Great video! When you start, if you haven't already, researching for the video(s?) on contemporary China, I hope you rely more on the works of actual Chinese academics like Xiaohuan Lan and Cheng Enfu.

@redpen1917 8 дней назад

The next one is on Xi Jinping’s speeches and writings.

@rotface6969 День назад

excellent video. would love a follow up exploring the PRC under Deng Xiaoping.

@redpen1917 День назад

@@rotface6969 check out my video on Bukharin in Beijing or “what the communist party of China learned from the soviet union.”

@B_Estes_Undegöetz Месяц назад

Thanks again for another great video. I’ve read a comment here elsewhere requesting more videos about the Chinese regimes that have followed Mao’s. Seeing as how the traditional liberal critique of Marxism always falls back upon its supposed history of “failures” when really used by those who, initially at least, might have been trying to be guided by its principles, it would be very interesting if RedPen would embark on a critical analysis of the historical compromises and essential deviations from Marxism and / or Marxism-Leninism that have since accumulated by the Chinese regimes that have followed Mao’s rule.

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

Check out my Video “Bukharin in Beijing”

@B_Estes_Undegöetz Месяц назад

@@redpen1917Thanks very much. I will do that.

@petercevallos258 Месяц назад

I disagree that MZT was a deviation of Marx and Lenin, as neither of them outright rejected the idea that social relations develop productive forces, they (and Mao) just posited that *generally* the history of human society depended on the productive forces setting the basis for new social relations. But as dialecticians we recognize that in the contradiction between social relations and productive forces, that under certain conditions (such as the objective development of the Chinese peasants in their enthusiasm for socialism) the regular principality between the two can shift. Further, even among the Dengists they saw MZT as a development of Marx and Lenin rather than a deviation. I can draw a comparison with this and the Haitian Revolution, where the enthusiasm of former slaves led to the development of capitalist production primarily from the social relations, quickly moving past feudalism (in contrast in the US reconstruction involved the feudal sharecropping system which wasn't fully abolished until as late as the 1970's). Generally I believe the video refrains from the counter-revolutionary measures of the Dengists in the aftermath of the cultural revolution, nor does the reference to Deng's apparent reverence of Mao come at any surprise as Mao and the leftists exposed efforts from party officials (especially when Lin Biao was seen as a counter-revolutionary) to invoke Mao's words on the one hand to dismantle his policies on the other. The 4 weren't the only one's arrested, as tens of thousands of Maoists were arrested and killed over the course of the late 70's and 80's. Further the economic policies of Deng led directly to China being dependent on agricultural imports, something William Hinton wrote extensively on, and contributed to the Tienamen Square massacre in the late 80's. I think Mao was clear in that if the bureacrats and capitalist roaders returned to power, that would be capitalist restoration, in the same way he proved that the Soviet Union underwent capitalist restoration way sooner than 1991 with Khruschev's economic reforms. Socialism, as Lenin reiterated so many times in his writings, is defined by the dictatorship of the proletariat, which necessitates that the working class is holding political power. The Soviet Communist Party under Khruschev's leadership gave careerists and bureaucrats the reigns to exercise all political power, where the workers themselves were deprived of all political power. Managers and specialists lorded over production, where workers had no longer any say in how it was supposed to run. The Cultural Revolution was an effort to avoid this, but in its failure led precisely to the restoration of capitalism expressed with billionaires in the communist party and workers deprived from access to determining how production was to take place.

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

Mao disregarded two fundamental points of Marxism Leninism and further disregarded Soviet aid and advice, resulting in the Great Leap, and millions of people dying. The tragedy of the Great Leap stemmed directly from MZT. Deng and others saw this clearly and realized that Revolution could not come at the expense of further famine and social chaos. Most Chinese regard the Reform and Opening Up as an overwhelmingly positive development.

@TheBucketSkill Месяц назад

@@redpen1917 It clearly is, but why bother keeping up appearances? It's not socialism... the vanguard party turned into fking tycoons... Jiang and the shanghai clique were all for it, globalized trade with capitalism.

@user24852-w Месяц назад

@@redpen1917 Could you explain the 2 points of deviation? I'm trying to further my understanding of MZT

@mortimerwake2974 Месяц назад

@redpen1917 the Great Leap Foward was broadly a success (look at life expectancy charts, income, whatever you like) and the Great Famine could be said to have been worsened by an idealist adherence to folk knowledge in the Four Pests Campaign, but was also part of a cycle of regular famines in China that only ended under Mao. To speak of the GLF as though it was one big slow-motion catastrophe is ridiculous

@salmonforest640 Месяц назад

I know this video go mostly over Mao's era but you could have said that Deng ended the communes and the barefoot doctor program. also market socialism is just a revisionist name for capitalist reforms.

@0MVR_0 Месяц назад

One concern you might consider is to place the original Chinese quote along side the English translation.

@dontaskmewhy100 Месяц назад

CR is much more complicated but yes it's a catastrophe and the CPC admitted they should been held solely accountable for this huge disaster.

@SPietzie Месяц назад

Great Video, although I would like for upcoming ones to improve the sourcing down to page numbers or at least chapters. Citing an entire book at once for really specific statements makes it hard to look into them.

@pagan-540 Месяц назад

China great big powerful country. Mao great leader made China country. China very excellent technology. Manufacturers export worldwide 🌐.

@ShiningSta18486 Месяц назад

The USSR also incorporated the peasantry into the process of socialist construction. The class character of them is petit bourgeois in the context of Socialist construction until theyre organized in industrialized cooperatives, and small proprietorship engenders capitalism. And so the Proletariat must be at the head of the united front with them, bc the Proletariat is the only class which is growing larger day by day which as a result must help proletarianize them

@dorinpopa6962 Месяц назад

As I understand the channel has a Dengist leaning and probably considers China a socialist state or a state that advances in its construction of socialism. One of the false points made by Dentists is portraying Deng's reforms as saving socialism in China by contrasting it to the dissolution of the USSR. China didn't crumble, but Deng did in fact roll back on the socialist construction in China. It's a false equivalent to equate the preservation of the state or government system with the actual class character and economic basis of a country. Dengists then emphasise the importance of the lenient approach to capitalist elements and classes as the distinguishing feature that kept China from the fate of the USSR (splitting up into pieces). China is far more cohesive from a national point of view. The USSR on the other hand had many nations and with the development of revisionism and capitalism the USSR split along national lines when the carving of national markets begun. That's one important reason why the USSR crumbled. Another was that the USSR did achieve a socialist economy (an economy dominate by the state owned industry and government economic planning and distribution). After getting to that point the USSR enshrined in law the impossibility of hiring labor privately and private ownership of the means of production. China never went so far and as such was able to gradually transition into its current state where it is a predominantly capitalist country and no advancements towards the socialization of production are observed.

@TheBucketSkill Месяц назад

Kulaks don't feel so well after being incorporated.

@ShiningSta18486 Месяц назад

@@TheBucketSkill kulaks weren't peasants. Peasants are peasants, kulaks were feudal landlord Petit Bourgeois

@ShiningSta18486 Месяц назад

@@dorinpopa6962 I agree with most of what you said but also alot of those errors started with Mao. Deng is the logical conclusion of Maos mistakes. Regardless I do believe there are some good aspects of modern China but hope they roll back the revisionist liberalization now that they have such huge technology and industry

@TheBucketSkill Месяц назад

@@dorinpopa6962 Facts. They gave up on it, and whos to blame them? Stopped fooling around with marxism and tried the economic zone for a second and realized they wasted 30+ years.

@megathai Месяц назад

Why the repuload?

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

Had to fix a technical error.

@kingkamatrigon9231 Месяц назад

What happened to other videos cant find it settlers

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

I took down old videos I no longer agree with.

@markosadamopoulos4553 Месяц назад

Hey man, looks like the Settlers vids are taken down. Do u plan on re-uploading them?

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

No.

@georgdeden9918 Месяц назад

Please my friends who watched this: NEVER forget that there were two men who catapulted China from virtual oblivion pre-1949 to practically the most powerful nation of earth today: Mao Tse-Tung and ZHOU ENLAI Mao with all his charisma and skills would have utterly failed to lead China to her position today, and in his wisdom he tacidly, cunningly and basically wholeheartedly supported Zhou, his "HOUSEKEEPER" as he called Zhou himself during Zhou's most life-threateninhg time at t he "Cultural Revolution" - right up up the very end of his life.. Zhou Enlai had but one all-encompassing zeal: to lead the Chinese people to total and unbeatable freedom and prosperity - in the most scientific and precise ways possible. Zhou Enlai had not a hint of desire for power, least of all supreme power, instead he quite literally sacrificed himself by relentlessly pushinhg China's preogress, even during his last agonizing cancer-ridden last years (all the way ensuring that Deng Xioping would become his - and eventually Mao's - successor). LET US ALL LEARN FRM BELOVED PREMIER ZUOU ENLAI!

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

Absolutely, Zhou Enlai was extremely based.

@Tayveiss Месяц назад

What happened to your videos on settlers?

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

Took them down as I no longer agree with the author.

@Tayveiss Месяц назад

@@redpen1917 what’s wrong with the author and even if you don’t agree can’t you still get something from the text?

@markosadamopoulos4553 Месяц назад

Since it's your own intellectual property and you decided to not have them uploaded publicly it's totally understandable. But since I really liked them, would you be interested in mailing them to me for personal use only? I can also buy them if you want.

@JordanArno-l7x 4 дня назад

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@backfeetghost1404 Месяц назад

Banger video as always

@andriaqardava3766 Месяц назад

landlords beware Mao has won the war

@pomernguy1835 Месяц назад

By the time the Second Sino-Japanese War ended, it was clear that China would be ruled either by the Kuomintang or the Communist Party and these two organizations wanted to have absolute control over the whole of China. In the end, the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan and Chiang Kai-shek consolidated his power by force, ruthlessly executing all of his rivals and those who opposed him. The CCP successfully solidified rule over Mainland China and in the first years it looked like China would finally recover from the Century of Humiliation. A fight against opium and land reform certainly legitimized the CCP in the eyes of millions of Chinese people. All of this changed however with the disastrous Great Leap Forward, one of the greatest avoidable disasters of modern history which resulted in 15-55 million people dying from starvation. In its aftermath, the Communist Party split, with hardliners Mao Zedong and Lin Biao on the one side and reformists Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping on the other. The reformist wing of the party called for economic reforms and emphasized the need to adopt pragmatic policies for China to recover and strengthen its economy. Chairman Mao however grew wary of them, as he certainly didn't want to lose his power within the PRC. Ultimately, the Cultural Revolution was orchestrated by Mao to achieve total control over the CCP and to get rid of his political enemies. The Red Guards flooded the streets of the cities, propagating absolute loyalty to Mao and orchestrating show trials for those who were deemed the enemies of the state. As a result of the Cultural Revolution, thousands of books and objects were destroyed and thousands of people, including high-ranking CCP members such as Liu Shaoqi and Peng Dehuai died. Mao Zedong achieved absolute and dictatorial power, but fortunately, he wasn't able to fully use it, as he was then a very sick man. He died in 1976, leaving behind a legacy of a man who ended a Century of Humiliation and a tyrant whose actions resulted in tens of millions of people dying. Afterwards, we had the short lived leadership of Hua Guofeng and then Deng Xiaoping's leadership which oversaw a period of massive economic growth, which happened thanks to the abandonment of collectives and planned economy and allowing for private ownership, business and capitalism to thrive. Deng's economic reforms resulted in China having a huge economy that now can rival the one the US has. However, it became clear that the CCP would not allow for political liberalization after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, which resulted in the death of hundreds and possibly thousands of people. Meanwhile, Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975 and his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, became president of the ROC. While this was nothing more than a nepotistical succession, Chiang Ching-kuo began to institute democratic reforms (mainly because the US began pulling recognition of Taiwan in favour of normalisation with the PRC). However, he did resist other factions of the KMT who did not want to do that, including his brother, Chiang Wei-kuo. This eventually resulted in the Republic of China holding its first free elections in 1996. Ever since, the ROC became a full-fledged democracy, where the Kuomintang abandoned its authoritarianism and other parties, such as the Democratic Progressive Party flourished. It's also worth noting that during the Chinese Civil War, the Communists accepted into their ranks many generals who previously served other warlords or the KMT and allowed them to live. These generals were for example: Fu Zuoyi, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, Long Yun, Lu Han and Cheng Qian.

@mortimerwake2974 Месяц назад

"15 - 55 million" is the kind of range you get when you listen to ridiculous anticommunists.

@pomernguy1835 Месяц назад

@@mortimerwake2974 Even Deng Xiaoping admitted that at least 16 million people died during the Great Leap Forward. This man-made disaster was so huge that it sent shockwaves through the CCP itself.

@pomernguy1835 Месяц назад

Even Deng Xiaoping admitted that at least 16 million people died during the Great Leap Forward. This man-made disaster was so huge that it sent shockwaves through the CCP itself.

@pomernguy1835 Месяц назад

@@mortimerwake2974 Even Deng Xiaoping admitted that at least 16 million people perished during the Great Leap Forward. This man-made disaster was so huge that it sent shockwaves through the CCP itself.

@pomernguy1835 Месяц назад

@mortimerwake2974 Even Deng Xiaoping admitted that at least 16 million people died during the Great Leap Forward. This man-made disaster was so huge that it sent shockwaves through the CCP itself.

@nonfinale685 Месяц назад

I love getting my history from people who cant filter out political bias.

@brandonchauinfo Месяц назад

oh please, we all know you get your history from the infographics show

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

Everyone has a political bias. It’s just a matter of whether you can decipher it, or not.

@ShiningSta18486 Месяц назад

to you, unbiased means in line w the status quo

@Somebodyherefornow Месяц назад

>subbed to countryballs channel at least you are subbed to fredda

@seductive_fishstick8961 Месяц назад

Everyone has political bias's those who claim not to are liers.

@nigelralphmurphy2852 Месяц назад

You really have been drinking the CCP Kool Aid haven't you?

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

@@nigelralphmurphy2852 I’m very happy to see China thrive, and Chinese finally stand up for what’s theirs.

@seductive_fishstick8961 Месяц назад

CPC*

@TheBucketSkill Месяц назад

@@redpen1917 Mannnn say you gave up ol capitalist roader head ahhh

@nigelralphmurphy2852 Месяц назад

Most of the "enthusiasm" for socialism was among the people in the north. The south was much more apathetic, cynical, or outright hostile to the CCP.

@nigelralphmurphy2852 Месяц назад

In South China there were no evil landlords as all land was owned by the local clans and any landlords were members of the same clan and lived in the same towns as everyone else. Southern landlords only owned a small amount more than others. Hence during Land Reform in the south there were no evil landlords and so someone, anyone, had to be found to be the evil landlord to be struggled against and killed. This was all led and orchestrated by Communist cadres. The violent reaction against such tyranny was one reason Mao decided to enter the Korean War. It was a means to refocus the people's anger to the United Nations and support for the war. And this after only one year after the CCP took over!!

@redpen1917 Месяц назад

Interesting.

@mortimerwake2974 Месяц назад

Definitely no other reason for China to join the Korean War (it was to prevent the occupied Korea gaining a land border with China after the DPRK got immensely pushed back).