The idea that the government should care for and protect its people.
Some characteristics of a communist society would be, the middle class disappearing, the government falls away, and where all members depend equally on whatever the society produces,where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Unless all citizens worked together,a classless society could not exist. Workers would share all means of production, in success or failure, and all banks and services would be nationalized. I hope this was helpful! Have a good day!
They gained popular support by speaking out against Communists in the United States.
... in response to other persons in leadership in China that Mao thought focused too much on technical expertise and not on ideological purity.
Mao Zedong began the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (its official name) in 1966. A big part of the program was the closing of China's schools, because Mao saw the majority of educators as bourgeois types who were failing to support the communist revolution. The Cultural Revolution was an insistence on loyalty to communist party ideology.
The Red Guard was formed, which was made up of high school and college students (no longer attending school, since schools were shut down). These radicalized students became militants for Mao over against those whom he considered not revolutionary enough. The Red Guard destroyed historical artifacts and writings of the of China's former culture. They also attacked persons who were seen to be resisting Chairman Mao's permanent revolution.
