What was it about?Was it worth it?What would have happened if it had lasted longer or been successful?
>>18477610>What would have happened if it had lasted longer or been successful?Currently in progress.
Mao got spooked that the party was giving back land to the farmers and suspected they'd undo the revolution after he died. So he started supporting batshit purity spiraling from the youth and it got out of hand badly. If the cultural revolution has kept going they'd have ended up like the Khmer Rogue.
>>18477624>suspected they'd undo the revolution after he died.damn almost like he was right about everything
>>18477610It was good in the way that it destroyed a lot of thirdie mental retardation India for example, would benefit immensely from a cultural revolution
>>18478945It didn't really destroy it, China is still superstitious as fuck. You can't really destroy something that pervasive. Even modern Western Atheists still follow Christian morality despite rejecting the religion.
>>18478941The cultural revolution likely accelerated the push to reform. During the CR, economic development was stagnant (inb4 you post a graph showing high GDP growth during parts of the CR which was just the economy catching up after not developing for years), so by 1975 peasants were breaking the law to try to make money, fearing another famine, and the party was desperate to build the economy for the sake of national security, so everyone was eager for market reform. As well as the fact that up to 2/3rds of party members had been purged and beaten, humiliated, or imprisoned, so they fucking hated the CR and wanted to immediately purge the Gang of Four and make sure nothing like that could ever happen again.
>>18480383The fact Deng won shows the cultural revolution didn't go far enough.
>>18477610>What was it about?Getting rid of parasitic richfags who hate you and want your kids trannifies so they can make a few more bucks for their buddies in the pharmaceutical industry>Was it worth it?Yes. China executes worthless richfags who actively harm the nation.>What would have happened if it had lasted longer or been successfulChina would've risen decades prior. No matter, they are rising now.
>>18480201>the Country embracing AI and every modern futuristic and novel technology is still superstitious because grandmas still use fermented garlic or someshit>meanwhile the US is genuinely spooked by adding food dyes to their doritos or Corn syrup >Anti-intellectualism spreading to such a extent Americans worship random retards gurus on Facebook on how to live lifeO algo
>>18480422Mao himself brought Deng back in 1974 to fix the economy before purging him again a year later because Deng was getting results but he was using capitalism to do so. Hua Guofeng almost immediately brought Deng back after Mao's death because he was so popular, and Deng of course then unseated Hua Guofeng as the de facto leader of China. Everyone wanted Deng back. Despite being purged for most of the period between 1966 and 1976, everyone in the party was sick of the cultural revolution and wanted stability and growth, which they knew Deng was capable of delivering. If Mao's CR had gone any further he would have had to just kill half the party and leave behind a bunch of incompetent but ideologically sound retards who would have turned China into Kampuchea.
