Democracy is one element that they have not established as far as we know. There is only one party, the communists, in which the public votes for different chairmen in that party that they want to elect and make leader, this is not what you would call democracy. Although I must take into account the Chinese perspective and looking at the way the country has been run in previous years what they have now is the closest thing to democracy that they have ever experienced. This is classed as democracy to a lot of China but to others who oppose communism it is more of a dictatorship.
I think that peace is another thing that Mao said would be accomplished that was. There now is a greater understanding of the West and in a way they trust them a lot more than they used to. An example of peace brought out by China is ‘The Korean War’ which took place in the 1950’s and ‘The Vietnam War’ in the 1960’s. I think the reason China has found peace is mainly due to the people being more comfortable with China and the government not being as strict. Although China is very strict on numerous things it is not as bad as it used to be. The Chinese has also attained unity, I think this has happened because China has been held together and has stayed like that without parts of it leading off and becoming separate. It has held down the minorities and separatists. China has stayed as one and hasn’t collapsed into different states. The county itself has gained unity from communism because communism is all about the growth of the country and making improvements, which I think it has achieved.
China has definitely gained prosperity as it has managed to overcome all the problems that it has previously faced. Some of these include the failure of early economic plans and the boom of the 80’s and 90’s with Dengs ‘4 M’s’. Both of these problems were overcome reasonable quickly by the government who I feel dealt with it well.
Grasping this information I think that China would be a good place to live as long as you observe and agree with the governments methods. If people criticize the government then this is where a problem would occur as many of the previous presidents, government officials or politics are extremely sensitive to criticism of any kind. An example of this is chairman Mao Zedong’s launching of the hundred flowers campaign and Deng Xiaoping democracy wall, both of which were closed down, as criticism got too personal and offensive for them.
I think that the 1949 communist programme has been reasonably successful. They made quite a lot of mistake through out their time yet somehow managed to clear them up. As I mentioned before they have kept China together as one, which is a very good thing as many large counties have collapsed and separated into smaller parts. I think that they were successful but only to a certain extent as communism is about the growth or the country and trying to improve it and I think that they have accomplished that. The communist party tried to make sure everyone was treated equally and fairly and I think that this worked because when the great leap forward was launched everyone was paid exactly the same amount and had the same living standards as each other, although the great lead forward was actually unsuccessful. The thing that I dislike about communism was that fact that no one had the choice to vote for anyone else in opposite parties, as there was only one party to vote for in political elections and the government claimed to be running the country on behalf of the workers which in a way I think is untrue. This answers the question opposed, which asked how successful the 1949 communist programme was.
