1. The Cultural Revolution
Chinese Politics
The Cultural Revolution
Noh HyunKyung
Ahn JaeHee
Hwang SooMin

2. Summary
CR, failure?
Evidence in depth
Conclusion
Discussion

3. Summary

4. Mao’s power gets gradually expanded.
Summary
1st Phase
Mao’s power gets gradually expanded.
Lin Biao
Jiang Qing
Actual
Actions

5. knocked off certain officials
Summary
Mao,
knocked off certain officials
secured the acquiescence of the party establishments
attacked revisionism and unnamed members in the party “taking the capitalist road”
Actual
Actions

6. Summary
Shitzu

7. Mao got nominal legality.R
Summary
2nd Phase
Mao got nominal legality.
11th Plenum
Anti-
Red
Guards
Revisionism

8. Red Guards Summary was consist of teenage students
“Learn revolution by making revolution”
“Bombard the headquarters”
turned to destructive activities
Mere attack → heightened phase

9. R
Summary
Yangzi

10. The whole situation out of Mao’s control.
Summary
3rd Phase
The whole situation out of Mao’s control.
Seizure of Power
Violent
Rebels
Revolutionary
Situation

11. Summary Seizure of power The regional force of PLA
To drag out the capitalist roaders → violent situation
Revolutionary rebels (disbanded the Red Guards)

12. Mao tried to put a new state together.
Summary
4th Phase
Mao tried to put a new state together.
Military
Not Many
Radical
Students
9th Party
Congress

13. R
Summary
July 1968 ~ April 1969
Military / New party and official functionaries / Slight
representation of mass organization
Ninth Party Congress
The Central Committee → more military / less
educated / less prepared to deal with foreign affairs

14. Can we conclude CR as a FAILURE ?

15. And we refute 2 most general statements that conclude CR as a failure.
Our answer is NO
And we refute 2 most general statements that conclude CR as a failure.

16. CR delayed China’s economic development
State 1.
CR delayed China’s economic development
for 30 years.

17. Can we say that CR is a Failure Only with the economic reason?
Of course NOT

18. by mentally renovating people.
Statement 1. CR delayed China’s economic development for 30 years.
Prosperity is NOT the main goal of CR
The original purpose is to make the communist revolution last continuously
by mentally renovating people.

19. China is NOT one of the capitalism countries.
Statement 1. CR delayed China’s economic development for 30 years.
It evaluates CR only with capitalists’ Value.
China is NOT one of the capitalism countries.
It is a COMMUNIST COUNTRY!
CR must be evaluated with its
original goal and background of ideology.

20. Mao’s one-man dictatorship and corruption
State 2.
CR brought
Mao’s one-man dictatorship and corruption
after it.

21. Mao’s one-man dictatorship and corruption is result of CR ?
Can you sure that
Mao’s one-man dictatorship and corruption is result of CR ?
Well, I don’t think so.

22. Statement 2. CR brought Mao’s one man dictatorship and corruption
Result of CR Must be separated
From Mao’s fault after CR
CR is Mao’s attempt to keep communist revolution.
So, we should understand CR as a continuous phase
towards ‘communist utopia’.
No Causal link between the CR and its after-happenings.

23. because it don’t separate result of CR & Misrule of Mao after CR
Statement 2. CR brought Mao’s one man dictatorship and corruption
So, This state is unfair
because it don’t separate result of
CR & Misrule of Mao after CR
The state that Mao’s one-man dictatorship and corruption is made by result of CR
similar to saying; President park’s one-man dictatorship is caused by his economic development..

24. Evidence in depth

25. CENTRALIZED ORGANIZATION
Evidence in depth why we can view the CR as a success
STRONG POWER
VIOLENT STATE
CENTRALIZED ORGANIZATION
글서 타이틀을못달겟어
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
deepening evidence라하기엔넘 캐쥬얼하고
광범위해가
point되게모가잇어야하는데
내가이해가앙대서근가
노현경 님의 말 :
저거 세개가 뭔데
마오가 원하는
안재희(ㅎ.ㅎ) 님의 말 :
그 레닌이주잘한 것들
이자ㅓ너?
대증선동을위한스단
ㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇ
황수민 님의 말 :
Reason Why you can See the CR as a success
그냥 일케 하면 안되냐
글고 마오의정브에사실제로나타남
근데 그건
모든 바디가 저거자나 그럼ㅋㅋ
다 성공이라고 불러야 되는 이유 나열하는건데 우리가 ㅋㅋ
바디 123이 다
1,2 는 실패라고 보는 입장에 대한 비판으로 보는 경향이 강하고
3은 그냥 왜 성공이라고 볼수 있는지에 대해서 좀더 깊게 파는거니까 ㅠㅠㅠ
그래서 그랫어여 ㅋㅋㅋ

26. How about the Mao’s government?
Military was monopolized by Mao’s people
(representative of proletarians)
An officer in the People’s Liberation Army consisted More than 2/3 from the parties.

27. Why Mao wanted to avoid Revisionism?
Contents
Original Aim of CR
Anti-Revisionism
Why Mao wanted to avoid Revisionism?
Appearance gap between poor-rich
and hereditary elite groups made by China leadership.
Think about the Deng Xiaoping’s government with dengism.
It became the reality.

28. Conclusion

29. Conclusion

30. Conclusion

31. Cultural Revolution Conclusion Results Focus ∙Economical Development
→ Capitalistic view
∙Dictatorship
∙Corruption
→ Mao’s misrule
Stage Towards
Utopia
Focus
∙Anti-Revisionism
∙Centralized State consists of proletarian
Cultural Revolution

32. Discussion

33. Can we
Discussion
Can we think of other perspectives of evaluating the CR ? (Is it a success of a failure?)
Why did Mao change after the CR ?
3反, 5反 and Hundred Flowers were also the struggle against rightist class or elites
and were in a procedure of communist revolution.
Why only the CR is criticized by being misunderstood as a completion of communist revolution?