The Mao Genocide

Classification

Simbolization

Discrimination

Dehumanazation

Organization

Polarization

Preparation

Persecution

Extermination

Denial

capitalists

Chinese Communist Party

Capitalists

"national" capitalists

Kuomintang

general

Chiang_Kai-shek

Chinese Communist Party

Kuomintang

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cultural-revolution

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leader

Chairman Mao Zedong

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"Four Olds

Old Culture

Old Customs

Old Habits

Old ideas

"Red Guards"

purpose

punish party officials and any other person who showed materialistic tendences

Chinese Nationalist Party

materialistic tendences

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bourgeois elements

"revisionits"

schools closed

contryside for re-education

hard manual work labor and other work

"bureaucratic"

dominant party before Mao

"intellectual" capitalists

classes that swore fidelity to the Constitution and enjoy the rights conferred on citizens

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intellectual

foreign support from United States

support from wealthy landowners

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Maoism

Marxism–Leninism

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Support from peasats

capitalists (burocrates)

"the enemy of the people"

lazy people with no revolutionary thoughts

the reason China wasn´t prospering

a complet threat to the masses

created

Red Guards

around the country

purpose

abuse and kill opponents of the regime

had no right to strike

landowners were deprived of their lands in order to redistributed to peasants

literate people were forced to read newspapers with communist ideologist

direct control over news

journalists censored

anyone who had anything other than a Communist background were challenged and charged fro corruption and often send to prison

journalists abandoned professional ethics and participated actively in the all-out promotion of the party’s interests

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transfer of urban youth to rural areas

historical relics and artifacts were destroyed

cultural and religious sites were ransacked

everyone with skills over that of the average person was made a target

spies

"running dogs"

"revisionists"

coming from a suspect class

or related to former landlords or rich peasants

subject for

beating

imprisonment

rape

torture

harassment and abuse

seizure of property

denial of medical attention

erasure of social identity

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preople were:

murdered

starved

worked to death

large range of suicide

public executions in villages

45 million deaths

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Taoist God

public discussion is forbidden

censors have stopped newspapers from printing articles

publishing houses are not allowed to print the research that scholars have produced

facts of what happened have been distorted