Analysis

My song is about Proletariats and Mao. The song expresses that working class people were unfairly treated and heavily suffered. Through the song, we can know what the people want and that Mao is the one who can make true the hopes of people. They want to enforce a bourgeoisie dictatorship and restore their identity: freedom, rights, and equality.

I saw an image and a song-and-dance epic that is similar to the content of my song. The Old China, a song-and-dance epic, from the theme “The East is Red” portrays the unfairness and the sufferings of the Proletariats. The background of this video is gloomy and dark. Workers are carrying heavy boxes on their backs and some poor people are desperately begging. Then, at the end, it shows the bourgeoisies. The video also portrays that the bourgeoisies are the egotists, who are only interested in their own gain, fame power, and status. If you look at some of the images of “Smash the Old World!”, people are breaking with hammers or burning the old ancestor-looking statues. The majority of these people are working class, who want to shattered all the old ideology and established a new ideology on a massive scale. Mao was the one who brought up the new ideology that fitted the situation of class struggles. His ideology and teachings were hopes of the Proletariats. He was their hope for change.