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The Revolutionary Revolution And The Revolution

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As Mao’s political enemies were purged, he soon started to build the new type of government and reconstruct the orders in the nation. First, he believed that only by using a “triple alliance” of cadres, revolutionary organizations and the army, which represented the most significant three parts in the revolution, could China go back to the right track. In order to consolidate this alliance, Maoist leaders declared that a “revolutionary committee” was necessary and the only way to reorganize the political power (Meisner, 331). However, the revolutionary spirits were not under Mao’s control anymore. The proletariat classes, by 1968, were using extremely violent ways to express their devotion to this revolution. So secondly, Mao strongly depended on PLA, which now became “peerless people’s army” and “personally formed and led by our great leader Chairman Mao…” (Meisner, 340). In addition to the army, leaders like Zhou Enlai made efforts to rebuild the Party and reestablish the authority of the state bureaucracy (Meisner, 340; Macfarquhar & Schoenhals, 287). Yet, the cost of the demobilization was pretty high – mass killings occurred when the Party started to cleanse the class ranks, which were even much more serious compared with what happened in earlier years. Mao at first considered about continuing the revolution for a longer time except his Red Guards constantly causing problems. Those young naive students were no longer listening to Mao as the denunciation and big

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