ABSTRACT
Modern political and social movements in China must be seen as acts of self-protection against the aggression of the capitalist state, which is driven by colonialism and imperialism. The Chinese Revolution arose in the global movement of self-protection in defense of people's inherited rights. The Qing dynasty's demise in the period of expansive western powers went together with the erosion of China's agrarian economy. The introduction of colonial markets disrupted the Qing empire's self-sustaining tributary commercial network. The naturally intuited sense of right reflects an unconscious stratum, structured like an unspoken language in Chinese culture. The Confucian tradition indicate something like the natural right of subsistence, manifest in the Mencian idea of people as the basis of government. Mao's report shows how the peasants, with political power in hand, attempted to exercise their newly found political rights to achieve personal and property rights.
