This video is an in depth explanation of the history of the people's republic of china, as well as an explanation of the Maoist theory and modern praxis. I go over Maoism and explain it's philosophy and origin, then I explain the ways Mao tried to implement these changes with the first and second 5 year plan, along with land reform and collectivization. I then in depth explain the history of the PRC since 1948 to gain an understanding of china and it's history before spending a long part of the video explaining the way the current Chinese government works. I explain the different administrative divisions and their purpose, along with how the elections work.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:35 Maoist Theory
5:03 History
27:50 Modern China
38:16 Conclusion

Sources:
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Transcript: (at least as much as yt allows me to add here)
Hello everybody. The people’s republic of china is one of the largest and most important nations on earth. And it just so happens to be that it’s a very controversial topic among leftists. In this video I cand the way the government and economy works right now. And yes, I will answer the long-asked question. “Is china a socialist nation?” Strap in, this is gonna be a long one.
To understand modern china, we must understand the man and the ideology that founded it. Between 1927 and 1949 there was a civil war raging in china. It was interrupted by a Japanese invasion but eventually the communists under Mao-tse tung won and took over all of china.
Maoism is an evolution of Leninism. Remember, Leninism is an ideology designed to create a socialist state without the people having a lot of class consciousness and without having late stage capitalism. To achieve this the people who have class consciousness form a vanguard party which then takes over, develops the industry, educates the people and eventually gives the control over the economy to the workers to reach socialism.
Mao took this theory and adapted it. His party wouldn’t only be made up of Marxist intellectuals, instead farmers and the few industrial workers, which were in china were invited to the party. This party is supposed to always stay in touch with the people, it’s called mass line, and it’s because Mao considered the communist party of the Soviet Union to be divorced from the masses. We’ll see the influence of this when we look at the current government structure.