Ideological Education Quotes
Many Communist Party officials saw the red army as only a fighting unit. Mao had a larger vision and that vision contributed greatly to the success of the communist revolution. However, long after the revolution the Red Army, even into the 21st century, was so involved with affairs at all levels it was an economic, intellectual and political force of its own.
The NRA issued regulations making many forms of child labor illegal. Many opposed to the idea, saw it as an attack on the freedom of a parent to decide whether a child would or could work and under what considerations. A father could send his son to work in a dangerous coal mine 12 hours a day and boys grew up never seeing the sun shine. This point of view and “right” of the parent, actually prevailed and the Supreme Court declared the NRA unconstitutional. It took a Constitutional Amendment that passed with overwhelming popularity to allow the government to regulate sweatshops, coal mines and other conditions of child labor. Like most things conservatives opposed, the association of a program or reform with communism traditionally stirred opposition, even to something as benign as child labor regulation.
This was a fairly unique notion. In Russia the army never played this role to the same degree. The Long March in Chinese History blended and amalgamated the people and the army in a way that was unique in World History.
