Cultural Revolution Wider Historical Debate
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- Cultural Revolution Wider Historical Debate
- Mao's mistake - CCP 'party line'
- similar to Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin
- Deng: 'the greatest mistake of [Mao's] life'
- But the Gang of Four corrupted and worsened the actions of troublemakers
- Mao attempting to regain control
- his ego
- removing his opponents
- by turning everyone against the CCP
- used the youth for their purpose, then sent them up to the countryside
- Ideological Mao
- his ideology had been challenged by introduction of limited capitalism
- targeted Deng and Liu for this reason
- Continuation of the Revolution
- worried about the softness of the young
- ideological
- incapability to keep foreign/ reactionary forces at bay
- Class struggle, frustration
- conflict between party elites expanded into between elites and masses
- already a precedent of violent criticism (Speak Bitterness)
- Red Guards had not profited as they believed they would
- Mao set it in motion but could not restrain it
- conflict between party elites expanded into between elites and masses
- The hierarchy and indoctrination
- high competition for good jobs
- nature of the CCP meant youth thought that the way to high positions was through devotion to the party
- Tradition of peasant rebellions
- in response to failures of government
- people power limiting the power of the government
- power of the government was excessive and the CR was a correction of this
- Mao's mistake - CCP 'party line'
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