Revolution

Revolutionary



**Essential Questions:**
== **1. **Who should decide what is best for ‘the people’? ==
 * The majority of the people should decide what is best for themselves, as they are the ones who are aware of what they are in need of. The majority also, because they know what can benefit or negatively affect themselves because they end up being the ones affected in the end. The people know themselves better than anyone.

 2. What makes people comply or reject?

 * If the idea is supported and liked by the people, then the people will comply to it. But if the idea is not supported or disliked by the people, it will be rejected. Comply is with agreement, and reject is a disagreement; which can be base upon the benefits or drawbacks to the situations, as well as whether their voices are heard or not.

 3. What makes a revolution successful?
==  4. Who are the winners in a political revolution ==
 * A revolution will become successful if the people work together and conform on common grounds, as well as people believing in the same things. Persistence as well as knowing what is wanted will contribute to making a revolution successful. Organization will be necessary in making success of a revolution.
 * A political revolution is won by the ones who win their seats in the government. In a political revolution, the people who got the change in government.

 5. What causes change in a society?

 * A biased opinion as well as conflict in a society will lead to disagreements within it, and is prone to cause change. Decisions made by political leaders can cause the society to change.

When a series of events occurs to give off a new system/ idea for the government, making it better for everything overall.
 * Revolution Definition in my own Words: **

a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
 * Actual Definition of Revolution: **

- Stamp Act - Boston Massacre - Tea Act - Boston Tea Party
 * Characteristics I associate with Revolution: **

Rank on Liberty, Justice, Equality 1. Equality 2. Liberty 3. Justice

Which do you feel is most important and why? I feel that equality is the most important because without this everyone would be discriminated and people would assume we aren't equal then causing more issues with one another because they'll treat each other differently based off who they are and not what they do or how they present themselves.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TGIRIfcWC4jbn7DzoVKbbz-DYMCph91UJP8RWDz_Q84/edit

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.

I think the meaning of this quote is explaining how a revolution isn't something easy and simple like the examples that they gave, its an act of overthrowing another class violently so its not something that can be easy and simple. A revolution is something that cant be done so easily, it takes violence in order for it to be done and achieved. "It's not a tea party"
 * — From //Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan// **

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

This to me means that once a population has set out a goal its hard to stop them because there mind is so set on their goal, if you don't have people behind you it wont be so successful.
 * — From //Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work// **

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.

This means when you have a group of underprivileged this is something wrong
 * — From //Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War// **

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

I think that them knowing this shows that that's how a communist will rule
 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">— From //Problems of War and Strategy// **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">__**According to the quotes above how might Mao Zedong define revolution**__?

He may define it as something not simple at all, its no tea party considering it takes violence for it to be successful, its a serious and dangerous thing. Its a powerful thing when the class has to be overthrown by violence. His definition could be too ideal because of how he has been describing it all. He says that in order to maintain a revolution you need to keep the military in control. I think that once violent could be taken away, the idea of a revolution itself is taken away because he portrays a revolution as something that has to have violence.


 * __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Do you agree with quotes of Mao? Why or why not? (use specific evidence from the quotes) **__

I definitely agree with the first quote on how not simple a revolution is, it has happened as violently and as difficult, its not an easy situation overall.

**Video on Modern China:**
__ I see: __ __ I didn't see: __
 * Big skyscrapers- Western influence
 * Modernized trains- fastest in the world
 * Dams
 * Many different buildings in unique shapes
 * Beautiful views
 * Olympic buildings/lights
 * Skyline
 * Waterfalls
 * Billboards
 * Very clean
 * Life outside city
 * No rural areas
 * No homes, schools, etc.
 * People interacting
 * "Voices of the people"