When Mao Saw the Change to Communism
By Adolfo Laborde
Professor, Law and International Relations Department, Tec de Monterrey, Santa Fe Campus. Visiting researcher at the Institute of Development, Funda University, China.
Abstract
This country could be anything but communist, at least from an economic perspective. Politics is another topic. It’s amazing to see how many malls there are, all of the underground tunnels and passageways with food all over the place. The slogan is buy, buy, and buy some more. This thought has obviously changed the character of a country that at the end of the 1960s was fighting the economic model, and even more so with the death of the revolutionary figure Mao Zedong (1893–1976).