Mao Zedong's Communist System

According to Mao Zedong, for China to reach its goal of becoming a communist system it must first undergo a series of reforms which will lead to the creation of a socialist system--the stepping stone of becoming a communist system. Through the implementation of socialist reforms, China will begin to create an equal and just society resulting in the mobilization of China's population--the main actors that furthered the strides to a communist system. There are three essential reforms that China undertook in its steps towards creating a socialist system, they were: the completion of land reform, the industrialize and nationalize state industry, and the collectivization of agriculture, each serving as push towards a socialist system vis-a-vis the creation of a communist system. The land reform in which Mao's administration completed, functioned as the redistribution of land from landlords and elite peasants to poor peasant populations; such redistribution of land resulted in a positive impact amongst the peasant population, soon after the redistribution of land, agricultural outputs rose. As a consequence, Mao Zedong came to adopt the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan, …show more content…
By aspiring to achieve the same goal as the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong, during the beginning stages of the Great Leap Forward, viewed the Soviet Union as the ideal model to follow in hopes of achieving a communist society. The ship within the poster can be the interpretation that, due to the Soviet Unions inability to help finance China , the Soviet Union sent intellectuals to help China in its transition to a communist society--therefore, the Soviet intellectuals served as "teachers" teaching China its methods and ideals such as the Five-Year Plan and what steps the Soviet Union underwent to achieve their current status, for example the heavy dependence on