Aristotle_Vs._Plato

Aristotle Vs. Plato Introduction The Chinese revolution of 1949 was one of the most momentous events of this century. The old order, dominated by warlords, police terror and the rivalries of Western and Japanese imperialists, was overthrown by a millions-strong peasant army. For a quarter of the human race, the way seemed open to eradicate the roots of poverty, misery and famine, and build a better society. “The Chinese people have stood up”, declared Mao Zedong at the official founding of People’s China – and millions around the world believed him. The impact of the Chinese experience was to be even stronger in the political explosion of the late 1960s. As students and workers across the industrialised world moved into battle against their ruling classes, many socialists looked to China for inspiration. Mao’s opposition to both American and Russian imperialism, and his declared support for national liberation movements, seemed to put him on their side of the barricades. And the Cultural Revolution seemed proof world, seemed, chinese, china, revolution, mao’s, economy, workers, successors, society, socialists, socialist, mao, inspiration, declared, cultural, build, been, aim, zedong, yet, western, way, warlords, very, today, through, terror, systematically, system, support, subordinated, students, struggle, stronger