Didn't the young people, the 'Red Guard' take over Red China one time, and turn the country upside down?
How many revolutions in which the old order got thrown out have resulted in a better government for the 'people' in the country involved?
That was the Cultural Revolution, it wasn't a rebellion by the youth against elders in the government, it was essentially a confrontation between left and right wing politics.
In the Anti-Rightist Movement (Rightist being defined as those in favour of capitalist developments), Mao Zedong came into conflict with other prominent founding members of the Communist Party, Mao was in favour of a strict Socialist course for the nation, preserving the very ideals of Marxism, and hence tried to reform the nation in the Great Leap Forward.
However, due to problems with the very basis of the theory and unscientific ways in which the Leap was carried out, famine and starvation ravaged China, resulting in devastating death tolls. Other founding members saw pure Communism wasn't going to work in the long run, therefore proposed the nation to become liberal towards ideas of capitalism and free-trade to develop China.
Mao, seeing his absolute power threatened, used his iconic influence on Chinese youths to remove all opposing his theories, especially those in favour of capitalism.
The Revolution was stupidity at best, and idiotic youths fumed their fury against all forms of tradition or radical thinking, prosecuted hundreds of thousands, destroyed millenniums of Chinese history and put the rest into irreparable conditions. After Mao's death the Gang of Four, the "leaders" of the Revolution, were prosecuted for crimes against the people and country.
All the history... lost in an instant...
Mao's Red Guards
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