Friday, September 10, 2010

POLITICS. The History of Communism in China

What is communism?
It is a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

The Communism in China began around 1911, when for the first time China was not controlled by an Imperial Government. All those ideological influence came from Karl Marx and many people started joining revolutionary groups to change their country.

Mao Zedong was a poor person who became the main leader of the communism party in China around 1949. His goal was to achieve the liberation of the proletariat class, although he tried to achieve it with totalitarian strategy.

That situation changed when Deng Xiaoping took the power. He thought in a different way as Mao did. Deng's goal was to have a free market so that the economy could increase and get better.

After Deng, the next president was Jian Zemin, who allowed private entrepreneurs to exist in China.

As we can see in this article, China is slowly shifting itself to a more democratic country and lately they are allowing more practices that before they did not.

This is the article where we found the information about Communism in China

http://www.gowealthy.com/gowealthy/wcms/en/home/articles/travel/culture/Communism-In-china-WBBDG6ZFB4.html

1 comment:

  1. Hong Kong's stability and continued development as an international city since reunification in July 1997 have depended upon the successful implementation of the principle of 'One Country, Two Systems'. Same to Macau as well.

    The Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitutional document, has provided the constitutional basis upon which the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has continued to protect its capitalist system, as well as the way of life, the rights and freedoms of its residents. These include:equality before the law, private ownership of property, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, freedom of religious belief, freedom of academic research and freedom to join trade unions.

    http://www.info.gov.hk/info/sar5/e12.htm

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