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Mao helped programs to increase food production and protect people from famines. The Advocated Socialist Education Movement (SEM) impacted peasant's ideas against Feudalism and Capitalism. He used large doses of political art figurative or literary all as a serum for the SEM. The party organization saw his initiatives proposed to be interfering with its program of economic rehabilitation |
Mao's main use of propaganda was through "thought control" or "thought reform." Thought reform is defined as "the systematic alteration of a person's mode of thinking, especially (in communist China) a process of individual political indoctrination." They used strong propaganda and control of power to influence people's thoughts and opinions, typically in the realm of politics. The Chinese government also had, and still has, a strong control over the education systems and media. Political articles were published in the "People's Daily" and it quickly became a fast way to get propaganda into the hands of people all over the country.
Mao's excessive use of propaganda left the people in China with little knowledge and a twisted view of the outside world. It also left the country even further behind in the world in terms of industrialization and evolution of thought and invention.
Mao's excessive use of propaganda left the people in China with little knowledge and a twisted view of the outside world. It also left the country even further behind in the world in terms of industrialization and evolution of thought and invention.