Did life improve for the Chinese people because of the Communist Revolution?

Answer 1

No, it is proven that rural Chinese are now worse off.

They would be better off if Mao was never the leader of China. Also, Mao killed 70 million people while creating a totalitarian dictatorship.

Answer 2

No, Mao's cultural revolution starved to death millions of Chinese. They all wore little green pants shirts and beanies till the Time Nixon visited the country. China was in a hole it couldn't climb out of until the late 70's. So lets do the roll up. Late 1940's commies take over, they kill get rid of and run off all the educators, business people and anyone remotely prosperous. They make everyone work on collective farms that failed and killed millions. Mmmmm, I ask you, did life improve?

Answer 3

Definitely not. Sure, life was bad as a peasant in the dynasty-days, but Communism totally destroyed China. People there now are either outrageously poor or 'sadistically' rich, with only a small handful of middlemen. Corruption is horrible there.

Communism also squashed out most of the cultures and religions there too. Thank God for Hong Kong.

Oh wait, China owns that now, too.

*After reading a few of the above answers, I have to agree, that maybe the economy is getting better, but it siphons into the richies' pockets.

*Um, kneeling on broken glass and being tortured while my kid is being brainwashed to love Mao...no thanks, I'll take starving to death.

Answer 4

The only ones who are qualified to answer that question lies in the mass graves by which Mao tse-tung created. To improve the lot of millions still held under the ruthless thumb of totalitarianism is an impossibility because the freedom of true thought and expression is absent and forbidden unless it is government-sponsored.

Answer 5

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.



Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap

Answer 6

Absolutely YES. Communist Revolution is a must in a over populated and large country like China. although many ppl sacrificed in it. But can u imagine without Communism controlling this big country how many ppl will die of hunger .
Try to imagine if china don practice Communism but free trade and humans right policies century ago..there will be some ppl that bcome over rice..and most of them will die of poverty.
When a country become more stable and develop, then they will switch from practicing communism to a more advance policies to control there country like so call free trade. when they are stable and rich...then the SO CALL human rights will arrive too...without money don tell me human right.(GO see Africans in the dessert, they wan food more then rights. if they practice communism controlling government fund and stop privatizing diamond business,and oil business to OVERSEA COUNTRY.they r rich.why need UN to send food.)

Answer 7

Huge gov.sanctioned holocaust helps alot in overpopulated China.

Answer 8

yes it improves a lot since then.

Answer 9

yes,

but it could be better.

life for the russian improved when the tsars were ended, yet it still sucked to be there.