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:{{Main article|Great Leap Forward}}
:{{Main article|Great Leap Forward}}
The Great Leap Forward was a campaign to nationalize industry and agriculture in China, instituted by Mao Zedong, which included collectivizing farmland. Peasants were forced to produce steel in backyard furnaces to raise China's steel output. The whole ill-conceived venture resulted in widespread famine, economic disaster and what modern Chinese history now refers to as Three Years of Disasters. As estimates vary, the Communist inspired democide was believed to result in the deaths of at least 45 million people.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=5NsMWCHDStQC</ref> Party Secretary [[Deng Xiaoping]] claimed the death toll to be 16 million, while the lowest estimate is 8 million <ref> ''Mao: The Real Story'', by Alexander P. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, pg. 472.</ref>
The Great Leap Forward was a campaign to nationalize industry and agriculture in China, instituted by Mao Zedong, which included collectivizing farmland. Peasants were forced to produce steel in backyard furnaces to raise China's steel output. The whole ill-conceived venture resulted in widespread famine, economic disaster and what modern Chinese history now refers to as Three Years of Disasters. As estimates vary, the Communist inspired democide was believed to result in the deaths of at least 45 million people.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=5NsMWCHDStQC</ref> Party Secretary [[Deng Xiaoping]] claimed the death toll to be 16 million, while the lowest estimate is 8 million <ref> ''Mao: The Real Story'', by Alexander P. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, pg. 472.</ref>
===Cultural Marxism Revolution===
[[Image:Cultrev.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A Cultural Revolution poster.]]
[[File:Hj12.jpg|thumb|Cultural Revolution poster]]
The '''"Cultural Revolution"''' was a disastrous attempt to reform the economics, education and politics of Communist China, which led to the deaths of tens of millions of people.
The upheaval began in August 1966 by Chinese Chairman [[Mao Zedong]].
His objective was to replace leaders with people who would think like him and be supportive of him as Chairmen, make the [[Chinese Communist Party]] function the way he wanted, give the Chinese youth a revolutionary experience, and make changes so that education, health care, and cultural systems would be for the entirety of China and not just for the elite. In order to do this, he began to establish a cult towards himself. His party would be forced to support him as he had little patience for opponents during what he believe to be the pinnacle point of China's future as a communist state. He quickly began a system of purges to cleanse of any unwanted opposition toward him or to the gang of four, especially after he was embarrassed with the part rejecting his great leap forward policies<ref>http://asianhistory.about.com/od/modernchina/f/What-Was-The-Cultural-Revolution.htm</ref>
Mao Zedong wanted the Cultural Revolution to affect everyone in China but it mostly affected those in urban places.
In August 1966 all schools were closed. During this time Mao told the Red Guards to question things that traditionally had great value and importance, and question the activities of government officials by slighting them in a way that was visible to all. This resulted in the harm and even death of many people. In the end, Mao Zedong achieved none of what he wanted.
It was no coincidence that the [[Red Guard]] violence began in 1966, seventeen years after the 1949 revolution; the first act after the 1949 revolution was take control of the [[public education]] system and indoctrinate a generation with [[Cultural Marxism]] and to target anyone who opposed them as fascists. The Maoist Red Guard was an [[Antifa]] movement.
===Tiananmen Square democracy protests massacre===
===Tiananmen Square democracy protests massacre===