ountry is being attacked from the outside, the advocates reached a truce in 1934 to fight the Japanese. The truce ended in 1945 and the CDC, in 1949, with the support of Russia, as well as the peasantry in the North and South defeated the militarily superior Chiang, who was supported by the United States with Mao taking complete power of the mainland and Chiang Kai-shek being relegated to Taiwan.
             Mao was a Marxist-Leninist, but given the Asian culture, and lacking even a small industrial base as Russia had, he had to turn to the peasantry for the revolution. However, they were eventually prolatariatized. The second change Mao made to Marxism was the "mass line" concept. The mass line is defined by John W. Lewis as "the basic working method by which Communist cadres seek to initiate and promote a unified relationship between themselves and the Chinese population and thus bring about the active participation of the people." In addition he believed in permanent revolution, a topic that Marx and Lenin discuss in passing, and that "revolution was a means by which people achieved their goals and the road to socialism, he claimed must be constantly punctuated with violence" As for capitalist societies Baradat writes that Mao believed
             "[t]here can never be true peace or a permanent accommodation with capitalism because these two systems diametrically contradict each other. Violent struggle between two antagonistic systems is therefore unavoidable and can be interrupted by only brief periods of mutual restraint. Peaceful coexistence is a fantasy that can be pursued only at the risk of betraying the revolution itself."
             Similar to Stalin, Mao upon taking control, displaced absentee landlords, but unlike Stalin he gave the land to the peasants and he freed woman from male bondage. He also took central control over the economy, increased heavy industrial production at the expense of light industry ...