This excerpt is adapted from a speech given by Mao Zedong in 1945.

Our aim ... is to build up the confidence of the whole communist party and the entire people in the certain triumph of the revolution ... We must ... raise the political consciousness of the entire people so that they may willingly and gladly fight together with us for victory. We should fire the whole people with the conviction that China belongs not to the reactionaries but to the Chinese people ... We firmly believe that, led by the Chinese Communist Party ... the Chinese people will achieve complete victory.

What was Mao Zedong attempting to do in this speech?

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Fernanda Manning

2 April, 15:54

This excerpt is adapted from a speech given by Mao Zedong in 1945.

Our aim ... is to build up the confidence of the whole communist party and the entire people in the certain triumph of the revolution ... We must ... raise the political consciousness of the entire people so that they may willingly and gladly fight together with us for victory. We should fire the whole people with the conviction that China belongs not to the reactionaries but to the Chinese people ... We firmly believe that, led by the Chinese Communist Party ... the Chinese people will achieve complete victory.

What was Mao Zedong attempting to do in this speech?

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Jasiah Watts · Answer 1

In the speech, Mao Zedong was attempting incite the people of China on the need to rise up and defend thier country. This is because, he saw America as a threat to his ambition to turn china into a communist country during the revolution.

Amercia has been favourable to it towing the part of democracy hence the reason to support the opposite candidate.

On the long run, Mao Zedong was able to succeed in his quest for a communist country because the people stood by him.