2.  Chairman Mao Zedong › Head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)  Goal: › Communism: classless and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labor and private property

4.  1958  Goals: › Catch up to West economically › Create communist society

5.  Rejected defense minister’s suggestion to slow down and dismisses him  20-30 million Chinese peasants die  Bad weather and depression also to blame

6.  Not on Mao but on… › Local leaders › Natural disasters › Soviet Union

7.  Chairman Mao handed over economic policy to trusted party leaders….  However Mao was upset…because policies were about… › Managerial authority › Peasant independence › Why?

8.  Elitism  Bureaucratization  Inequality  Corruption  Ideological Degeneration of the CCP

9.  Education too competitive  Hierarchy in industry  “household registration system” › Cities or countryside; no chance for movement

10.  Objective 1: No capitalism › Purify counterrevolutionaries  Objective 2: Restore personal power  Objective 3: Succession of ideas to next generation

11.  “follow Comrade Mao Zedong’s instructions…thoroughly expose the reactionary bourgeois stand of those so called ‘academic authorities’ who oppose the party and socialism, thoroughly criticize and repudiate the reactionary bourgeois ideas in the sphere of academic work, education, journalism, literature and art, and publishing, and seize the leadership in these cultural spheres.”

12.  Destroy “four olds” – old customs, culture, habits, and ideas

14.  Chairman Mao’s quotes

15.  Carried out Chairman Mao’s wishes

16.  Driving force of revolution