REVOLUTION

Revolution

Essential Questions

**1. **Who should decide what is best for ‘the people’?
 What the people need and the ability to differentiate the people's needs from wants

2. What makes people comply or reject?
Whether or not something benefits them

3. What makes a revolution successful?
If a noticeable change occurs

4. Who are the winners in a political revolution
The people fighting for what ever is being pushed towards office

5. What causes change in a society?
A Revolution.


 * Revolution: **


 * ** Define it in your own words: Where change happens by force or protest.**


 * ** Look up a definition of the term: ** **a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system .**


 * ** What are characteristics or acts you associate with Revolutions: Protest, war, violence, political, secretive, **

What does this picture mean? Basically saying that even if things are being distributed equally it takes justice to distribute equality fairly

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.


 * — 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.


 * — 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.


 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">— 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."


 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">— From //Problems of War and Strategy// **

Mao defines revolution as bloody, he thinks that change will not be accomplished through revolution unless the outcome is death.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">__**According to the quotes above how might Mao Zedong define revolution**__?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I do agree with Mao. If there is going to be change within government there must be death. There are peaceful protests but if change is to happen it need to be done by force.
 * __**<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) **__

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