China's government announced that it will stop pegging its currency to the dollar.  The announcement accompanied a new proposal to update the appearance of the paper currency. In the past, China's money boasted a portrait of only one of the world's worst mass murderers in all of history. And the people he murdered were mainly his own Chinese people.  The new proposal includes the trio of socialist atrocities responsible for the Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million dead under the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 35 million dead under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million dead under the National Socilaist German Workers' Party.  The slaughter was so bad that Holocaust Museums could quadruple in number, size and scope with Wholecaust Museums. It is embarassing to note that China has bought a lot of the debt of the government in the United Socialist States of America, thereby subsidizing the massive socialism in the USSA and its growing police state.  The USSA's debt is enormous in part because Republican-socialists are outsocializing Clinton by more than double (in social spending alone).

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Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung), the son of a peasant farmer, was born in Chaochan, China, in 1893. He became a socialist while working as a library assistant at Peking University and served in the revolutionary army during the 1911 Chinese Revolution.

Inspired by the Socialist Revolution in Russia (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR or CCCP), the Chinese Socialist-Communist Party (CCP) (pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng), was established in Shanghai by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao in June 1921. Early members included Mao, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Lin Biao. Under the guidance of the Soviet Socialists, the party was reorganized along Leninist lines in 1923, while party members were encouraged to join the Kuomintang as individual members in preparation for the Northern Expedition – a policy recommended by the Dutch communist Henk Sneevliet, then Comintern representative in China (see Henk Sneevliet). The Party even adopted on its flag the swastika of Soviet Socialism: the hammer and sickle (on a red banner).

Over the next few years Mao, Zhu De and Zhou Enlai adapted the ideas of Lenin who had imposed the socialist horror in Russia. They argued that in Asia it was important to concentrate on the countryside rather than the towns, in order to create a revolutionary elite.

Mao worked as a Kuomintang political organizer in Shanghai. With the help of advisers from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) gradually increased its power in China. Its leader, Sun Yat-sen died on 12th March 1925. Chiang Kai-Shek emerged as the new leader of the Kuomintang. He now carried out a purge. Those opponents who survived managed to established the Jiangxi Soviet which on its flag mimicked the flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the same red color.

The nationalists now imposed a blockade and Mao Zedong decided to evacuate the area and establish a new stronghold in the north-west of China. In October 1934 Mao, Lin Biao, Zhu De, and some 100,000 men and their dependents headed west through mountainous areas.

The marchers experienced terrible hardships. The most notable passages included the crossing of the suspension bridge over a deep gorge at Luting (May, 1935), travelling over the Tahsueh Shan mountains (August, 1935) and the swampland of Sikang (September, 1935).

The marchers covered about fifty miles a day and reached Shensi on 20th October 1935. It is estimated that only around 30,000 survived the 8,000-mile Long March.

When the Japanese Army invaded the heartland of China in 1937, Chiang Kai-Shek was forced to move his capital from Nanking to Chungking. He lost control of the coastal regions and most of the major cities to Japan. In an effort to beat the Japanese he agreed to collaborate with Mao Zedong and his socialist army.

During the Second World War Mao's guerrilla forces were well led by Zhu De and Lin Biao. As soon as the Japanese surrendered, Socialist/Communist forces began a war against the Nationalists led by Chaing Kai-Shek and gradually gained control of the country. On 1st October, 1949, Mao announced the establishment of People's Republic of China.

In 1958 Mao announced the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to increase agricultural and industrial production. This reform programme included the establishment of large agricultural communes containing as many as 75,000 people. The communes ran their own collective farms and factories. The disastrous scheme was also hurt (again) by the influence of  Soviet Socialism. Eventually, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics withdrew its large number of technical experts working in the country. In 1962 Mao's scheme ended.

As a result of the failure on the "Great Leap Forward," Mao retired from the post of chairman of the People's Republic of China. His place as head of state was taken by Liu Shaoqi. Mao remained important in determining overall policy. In the early 1960s Mao became highly critical of the foreign policy of the Soviet Socialism. He was for example appalled by the way Nikita Khrushchev backed down over the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Mao became openly involved in politics in 1966 when with Lin Biao he initiated the so-called "Cultural Revolution." On 3rd September, 1966, Lin Biao made a speech where he urged pupils in schools and colleges to criticize those party officials who had been influenced by the ideas of Nikita Khrushchev and Soviet Socialism.

Mao was concerned by those party leaders such as Liu Shaoqi, who favoured the introduction of piecework, greater wage differentials and measures that sought to undermine collective farms and factories. In an attempt to dislodge those in power who favoured the model of Soviet Socialism, Mao galvanized students and young workers as his Red Guards to attack revisionists in the party. Mao told them the revolution was in danger and that they must do all they could to stop the emergence of a privileged socialist class in China. He argued this is what had happened under Soviet socialism under Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev.

Lin Biao compiled some of Mao's writings into the handbook, The Quotations of Chairman Mao, and arranged for a copy of what became known as the Little Red Book, to every Chinese citizen.

Zhou Enlai at first gave his support to the campaign but became concerned when fighting broke out between the Red Guards and the revisionists. In order to achieve peace at the end of 1966 he called for an end to these attacks on party officials. Mao remained in control of the Cultural Revolution and with the support of the army was able to oust the revisionists.

The Cultural Revolution came to an end when Liu Shaoqi resigned from all his posts on 13th October 1968. Lin Biao now became Mao's designated successor.

Mao now gave his support to the Gang of Four: Jiang Qing (Mao's fourth wife), Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan and Zhange Chungqiao. These four radicals occupied powerful positions in the Politburo after the Tenth Party Congress of 1973.

Mao Zedong died in Beijing on 9th September, 1976.

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