The Great Leap Forward, 1956
- Mao’s new economic plan after five year plans criticized
- China organized into 28,000 communes
- Main factors:
- Great industrial and scientific activity
- Muscle power used to build, dams, and irrigation
- Small communal factories
- Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
"The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an
objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to
hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will
inevitably triumph"
- Mao, 1957
objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to
hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will
inevitably triumph"
- Mao, 1957