The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda
- China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) is derisively referred to as the Great Leap Backward.
- According to the Soviet writer A. Khan'kovskiy, this was a deviation from the successful Soviet socialist system that had followed "the Great October Socialist Rev0lution."
- In spite of these difficulties, the Soviets had set the standard and vouchsafed to the Chinese a blueprint and model that it might follow, and benefitted greatly from Soviet support.
Mao's Early Career
- In addition to the Soviet Union's aid to Communist China, Mao benefitted personally and politically from Western and Eastern European assistance.
- Mao had been supported in his early communist career by Yale University vis-à-vis Yale-in-China.
Mao's Leap into Madness
- Khan'kovskiy suggested that Mao's voluntarism soon got the better of him.
- The 8th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held in 1956
- Mao introduced his new revolutionary scheme, the Great Leap Forward
- Aimed to have China reach the production levels reached by the capitalist countries in the course of 100 to 200 years, in 10-20 or even less years
- To accomplish these feats, the peasants were reorganized into massive communes of thousands and even tens of thousands, where all resources were communally shared, including food
- Private ownership of land and free trade were abolished, along with the right to leave the collective
- Communes were instructed to produce steel in homemade, backyard furnaces
- Seeds were sown at five to ten times the normal density
- A large amount of hydraulic equipment that had been hurriedly and carelessly built was found to be useless or even dangerous because of the increased erosion and the risk of flooding at the first high tide
- Millions of experienced grain growers were drafted into engineering projects and small-scale steel production, the products of which were virtually worthless
The Ultimate Great Leap Backward
- Whereas the Great Leap Forward was a misguided attempt to increase crop yields dramatically and industrialize the countryside, the Great Reset aims deliberately at deindustrialization and will affect a reduction in agricultural output.
- The Great Reset-initiated policies will lead to the consolidation of farmland in the hands of fewer owners, those with sufficient capital to undertake agriculture under stifling regulations and policies to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- During the early phase, eating meat was celebrated as a revolutionary act, but now it is deemed reactionary and unsustainable while eating insects and synthetic meats is promoted as environmentally conscious.
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