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OL ff MAO TaR—tONG THOUaR | Fo ‘MBO Tse-Tung Thought could be deserited as the science of Marxism-Leninism in the era of national laberation strugzles. -. si.» Mao took Lenin's organizational concepts in a semi-industrialized 1 F.'.. . Country (Russia) and applied then to a colonized country totally | f° ° Ammersed in feudaliam. “Sy. 6 SS Up until the Chinese Revolution the peasanta in underdeveloped iJ. countries had been given a subordinate role in the revolution. Even oD as." $hough Lenin had put forth the idea of a United Front based on an i ee alliance between the peasants and tke proletariat, the Russian i? oa Revolution was primarily fooussec on the cities. After the i. oe defeats in 1927 Mo took his party and army to the countryside 1 § and organized his base anone the peasantry. He still belleved i oo the urban proletariat would eventua'tly be in the leadership of - 7 oe the revolution, bat he cid not orient his efforts toward then. ; & in setting up a model for nctional Mlieration eatrugzles, Mao developed the idea of the tvorstare revolution, a model ° which has been closely followed by the poople of Viet Nam and Ra Cambodiae Mao based his s¥Orata,e theory on a elena analysis ae of colonized countries. In covntries dorint te: by Inmportelism Mao saw the existénce of five Classest 1) Landlords -- this . Was composed of two parts--big¢ lanélords who were lac':egs of i imperialism and were the min poople propping up the feudalistic \ system and the sraller landlords whose relationship to impertelisn a Was ambiguouse Mio saw big landlords as definite enemies of ; the revolution and viewed 8rali icndlords as pos-ible allies q of the revolution during {ts entieinsorinifat phase. 2) the ; bourgeolsie-- like the Jendlord class, tho boursedisie had tivo components -- the big or eonorsdor bourpeoisie who ran business for the imperialists in Chine and dare total enemies of the people and the national bourveoiste w.o were A180 exploitary of the people but at the same tine ve:e often exoloited by the imper- . lalistse Kao vieved the national bourreociske es possibile allies : in kicking out the ino-rialiste. 3) the petit bourgeoisie ~= ; E- these vere the sunll ccpitaltsts wie Were not totally revolutionary in potential but w:re much more the victizcs of imperialian ‘than exploiters of the neoplee -¥bo saw the cost Droeressive elements of the petit bourgeoisie es having tho potenticl tp beco.9 sommunist . revolutionariese 4) the pesonnta -- the pecsantry comprised 80 per cent of the Chinese psosle and It o viewed t'@ poorest elenents amon;: the peasantry es the "min eontin-ent of China's revolutionsr, forces", 5) the vroletzriat-- seen & Feo as "the beste notive force of the Ci:inese Revolution". ree ’ In the first stro of sho sn the strug le as one to kick the imoerixliets -nd their laci:eys out of the Sountry; and establish a democracye The streterzy for tile strucsle wee a orotracted peosle's guerrilla war lea ub; en Bllienee of the peasantry, the proletariat, indi the revolution ry elenents of the pelit courreoisias 3ro fino saw 30..e peovie @non: the no tfore tourcleoisée as Prticin.nts in ao , i United Front e¢ainst tonerictisc but vera errefil to On.:coize thet , the perty must be in the lecZerst 4, of tie revolution. The culmination | i of t isn xhase of t'> rovotutton wes a Joint ciet:torntts of the peasents, the vroletiri-ty, ond the rovoivétorcr,: petit bource olste ; tnce: ep rixed esonom ( Lis tis tu-triea m.tioncticed eng :3> Ture. ratio: Viced tut a si-niffecnat cs-unt of POD Pt7 Feminine: tn orie -yate tandsje This "ne Ora. tic” shore is 8 en us t:6 period when th2 Souncations lor croei: lism cre ovllte Ths eto e of the revolution: ended i: Shins in the nid 6€'s. The BECONA Bice Ls tre sociclist stece siere virteclly t°¢ erttre @co.ony (5 % Tyla Te ere ed i Eda Ore Fae BARES ELE EE PE Bin FPL EERE EOE I pO REE RE cee 2 sey Se + .