mao tze dong
...gmatism. Development of the Cultural Revolution signifies the different ideology between Soviet Union and China. Withdrawal of Soviet’s technological support and cooperation with China reduced the power of Soviet trying to direct the China into capitalist model. Apparently, Cultural Revolution was part an attempt to save China from Soviet style revisionism, to put the clock back and recover the revolutionary simplicities and enthusiasms of the Yanan days. Moreover, Mao become anxious with situations where he suspected there were increasing numbers of party members heading toward the capitalist road. He wants “to overthrow the handful of Party people in authority taking the capitalist road, especially the handful of top Party persons” doing so. Many members were purged and send to countryside. This had led to a complete chaos inside the communist party. Though this had caused the party shattered but it has prevented the Communist party to transform into capitalist form. He had successfully wiped out the capitalists within the party and establishes a stronger foundation for the Communist Party. Also, programs carried out by his colleagues to bring China out of the economic depression caused by the Great Leap Forward made Mao doubt their revolutionary commitment and also resent his own diminished role. Mao Zedong’s growing dissatisfaction with the way in which the Party apparatus, led by Liu, Deng and their associates, implemented the Socialist Education Movement was one of the more important factors which inclined him to embark upon that ill-fated venture. Liu Shao-qi and Deng Xiao-ping become increasingly more powerful in the party. Both of them are advocates for capitalism. Mao sends them to countryside. In 1962, Mao pointed out that "Revisionism has a share in capitalism and anti-revolution," and "if we didn't carry out our class struggle, we would become revisionists like the Soviets." This is considered as the purification process within the Chinese Communist Party. Cultural Revolution was scarcely a success. Eventually, the party's conservative bureaucrats regained many of the levers of Chinese power. The economy line of China gradually falls into the capitalist side after the failure of the Great Leap Forward. People became confuse on deciding which method they should undertake in order to rebuild the economy, and the most obvious option they have during that period was Soviet capitalist model. In the outbreak of Cultural Revolution, the economies worsen and there is no productivity from industrial and agricultural. However, an economist argue that China’s if the Cultural Revolution had not taken place in economy, it would have been a Soviet style, centrally planned economy characterized by inefficiency, wasteful use of energy and declining real wages. Mao sees the Cultural Revolution is absolutely necessary and most timely for consolidating the dictatorship of the proletariat, preventing capitalist restoration, and building socialism. The communists will lose substantially if Mao Zedong’s thought and proletariat politics is not in command in any department or any field because it will substitute by bourgeois ideology, bourgeois politics and revisionism. For the community, Mao recognizes that he must evoke political awareness to the masses. Mao condemned bourgeoisie trends in art, literature, and the economy, and called for a nationwide campaign of ‘socialist education’ and ‘class struggle’ to maintain the purity of the Revolution. He claims that the youth is innocent in the political issues. Mao repeated these thoughts to Edgar Snow: having “never fought a war… never known capitalism in power” the young “knew nothing about the old society at first hand… and thus could negate the revolution, make peace with imperialism, bring the remnants of the Chiang Kai-shek clique back to the mainland”. Participants in the new movement offered the young a fine chance to escape, at least temporarily, from the rigid discipline and monotony of their humdrum everyday lives, to engage in an attractive and thrilling adventure and, above all, to become a vanguard force in the shaping of their country’s future. Mao calls upon the youth to “swept away all monsters and demons” of capitalism. He encouraged radical students and teachers to carry out the Cultural Revolution by criticizing Party leaders and administrators. He intends to involve the masses in the revolution like what he did during the communist revolution. Mao believed that this measure would be beneficial both for the young people and for the party cadres that they attacked. Later, the youth form ¡§Red Guards¡¨. However, ¡§Red Guards¡¨ was soon out of control, their movement turned into harsh and violent. Assured that ¡§Rebellion is justified,¡¨ and the ¡§Four Olds¡¨ - old ideas, old customs, old culture, and old habits must be destroyed, they demolish thousands of temples, statues, and monuments. Another target for the ¡§Red Guards¡¨ is to remove the ¡§power holders taking the capitalist road.¡¨ They hit teacher to whom they regard as ¡§capitalist roaders¡¨ and burn the books t...