The Cultural Revolution Benefited China And The World.

1. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. -Mao20 Million by your figures died in the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution. I will actually agree with your estimate and I posit that those losses were worth the gains made.The Cultural Revolution seeked to finally defeat a 4000 year old cultural of expliotation.The society which Mao seeked to finally bring an end to just a century before had massacaredin a single a rebellion known as the Taiping. This is the same society that punished sons for reporting their fathers to the government for stealing asthe Confucican society placed family above government. The same society that from the 1840's on could not be rid of an Opium addiction that transcended all regimes.The society whose argicultural structure explioted millions of peasants.This society was the Chinese society that existed before Communism and still lived in the hearts and minds of many.The 20 million that died represent a mere 0.025% of the 800 Million chinese that lived during the Cultural Revlution.At the gain of finally bringing an end to the society that billions of living and dead victims of expliotation and the more then one hundred million Taipings and Communists that given thier lives over the past century to finally be free of it.Furthermore your claim of Cannibalism has no weight as the erotic novelist Z. Yi who had written that, himself soley asked the questions for the interviews in which he claims supports his own claims. You can read this assertion here in professor Xiaomei's book on pages 30 and 31 http://books.google.com....2. You claim that Mao's Cultural Revolution "Eliminated Knowledge". Mao in reality was washing away the surviving threats of the old society, thus he was justified. But more worrying is the claim you make here:As Mao became more powerful, he wished to suppress knowledge and understanding. In the process, he wiped out almost all education, and forcibly moved young people to the countryside, where they were forced to abandon all knowledge in the face of Mao"s teachings. This had an extremely negative effect on China for many reasons. Agriculture declined, factories closed, and all things that required complex skills were basically abandoned. This was disastrous. In all areas of Chinese society, people were called on to rejectnarrow self-interest and embrace their collective interests. “Serve the people” was more than a slogan. Students turned away from chasing privileged careers to use their knowledge to serve the workers and peasants, and doctors left the cities and settled in the countryside. Political study was a part of daily life using a variety of materials. The 312 page Red Book introduced hundreds of millions of people in China and around the world to Marxism-Leninism and Mao’s political thinking. • There was a vast expansion of education in the countryside, whichMobo Gao and Dongping Han describe in their books from first hand experience. The schools had the goal of producing graduates who were both “red and expert.” Students were expected to gain knowledge and skills that could be used to solve society’s pressing problems. Textbooks and teaching methods at all levels were changed to discourage rote learning, encourage critical thinking and promote socialist values. Nationwide admission exams were abolished, making it possible for many more workers, peasants and soldiers to attend the universities. • One of the most dynamic innovations of the Cultural Revolutionwas the system of “barefoot doctors” that helped narrow the gap in health services between rural and urban areas. By the mid-1970s, more than a million of these paramedics were working in the countryside. Many of them were educated urban youth who were part of the movement “down to the villages.” Their guidelines were to place prevention of diseases first, and to combine mental and manual labor. Their slogan was “calluses on hands, mud on feet, medicine kit on shoulder, poor and lower-middle peasants in mind.” -Internationaly Published Marxist Author and Maosit Commentator Jason Unruhehttp://maoistrebelnews.wordpress.com... 3. "A Depressed China" Please explain this and also how exactly China would have been in a better or "stronger" place in the society before the cultural revolution.Also I would like CON to please adress my opening argument and refute/accept my points.Thank you.