Cultural Revolution Are Inhumane

Nanxi Ai

Ms. Dickey

English 2

2 March 2015

Cultural Revolution--Another Kind of Witch Hunt By human nature, people are greedy and selfish. Rulers around the world try to control their citizens as much as possible, even under different social settings and cultural backgrounds. In a “witch hunt,” leaders do not want unknown people taking over their power. In beginning, people just focused on searching for capitalist officers and leaders. Later, teachers, traders and rich people became the goal. The revolution continued for ten years, It made China outdated and poor for a several years, and damaged many cultural heritages, hurting the Chinese people. Obviously, China lost the

because, first, during the revolution, people did have freedom of speech. if you said something good about the capitalism, you will get in big trouble. For example, if you said:” I like the soap.” someone will wrote a big poster criticism you and them, in the next day, you will be arrest by the red guard. In addition, anyone who disagreed with the leadership or leaders’ ideas would be send to jail and work all day long (Kondapalli). In The Crucible, the judge put people in jail just because they forget to go to church. Those are same thing to some extent, people at that point even didn’t have a chance to justify, which ignore basic human rights Second, the punishment are cruel. Some old people still remember that there were suffered a wide range of abuse like public humiliation, arbitrary, imprisonment, torture, sustained harassment and seizure of property (Joseph).This kind of abuse left shadows in a lot of people’s mind. Compare to “Press to death” in the witch hunt act in the western countries, punishment abuse also could threaten people and keep everything under control. And every rulers even in different countries all realized punishment is a very useful way to keep the society in “order”. It is unfair for people because everyone supports to have rights to to what they want to do, this kind order is not real order, it the cost people’s blood and

Overview the history timeline, Mao Zedong made the cultural revolution because he wanted to remove all capitalism in the country to consolidate his party. In other words, he tried to firm his stage and power in the country, remove capitalism maybe just is an excuse of his hunger. Because a lot of evidences show that before he made this revolution, a lot of people was not side with him. Furthermore, his party do not had a lot of fund to support the party work well. Red Guard may could be considered as the way to obtain more money to build up the party (Knight). In the Western, Religion leaders also wanted people to be loyal. They were fear someone would overthrow them. To prevent it happen, Mao abuse the violent and punishment to firm communism. It caused by personal desire. Nevertheless, this way could control people in short time but not forever. Moreover, people’s beliefs also can determine the fate of a country. Because of that, Chinese leaders spent a lot of energy to unity people’s mind. First, they print out “Mao Zedong’s Quotation” and require everyone must read it and study it (Knight). It is the reason why no one tried to say no to Mao’s direction. Second, the party controlled all kind of publication, that make people can just obtain the information that the party want people to get (Princeton University). A good modern