Maoist ?? This article makes me laugh. The author doesn't seem to know what he is talking about. Who is the author anyway ? Does he just make up an article and hide himself from criticism ?? Let me clear things up...
Mao had been a proponent to undergo cultural revolution for China since he took power in 1949. He wanted to have more people in China to work together and fought against any foreign involvement in their home soil, after learning some serious lessons from their sufferings in the past. What shaped up the communist party in the early 50s was the way people criticized landlords, as well as the way people idolized their own leader in order to secure the country. Mao's "Big Leap" plan included encouraging baby boom in order to show the foreigners how powerful they were in terms of the huge population, as can be seen in the Korean War, where human wave tactics were being used against machine gun bullets. However, the huge population has been the burden to the food supply and the economy as a whole. The current Chinese government realizes that if they don't control the population in China, they might not have a chance to turn around the economy. As far as the communist party is concerned, there's been a lot of changes in terms of market openness and the leader idolization. You just don't see the same idol figures in the mainland as you did in the 50s - 70s. The Chinese people have also undergone a significant change in terms of their thinking - that is, they are searching for a new forms of ideology, but they are pretty much confused from the recent events in politics, like T Square and Yugo Embassy bombing. Most of the people don't know what they are looking for, but money. Some youngsters have been as wild as the Americans. Rock bands have emerged from underground. Nonetheless, in spite of the recent mind openness for the Chinese, mafias still is a problem in Macau and Hong Kong, where they seize opportunity by luring ignorant mainlanders into selling sex and sending human cargoes in hope for better money-making opportunity. But the mainlanders just don't realize the opportunity is in the mainland.
While the government is operated like a corporation, the mainlanders have nothing to complain as long as their lives remain normal and simple. As for the Maoism, which encourages baby boom, jailing of landlords, and idolizing a single leading figure, you just don't see it today in China. I would say the communism in China is basically gone, and a new breed of corporate culture in the government takes shape. Of course, you would say this is a new form of dictatorship, as long as the CEO is still in charge. But for the country to fight for security in the region and the stability in the global economy, they need a central government. Democracy for the people will gradually take place as time goes by...
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