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90% of actual participants in the CR were delighted by it. Millions still gather to celebrate it annually because, 16 years after the Communists took power, nothing had changed in peasants’ lives.
Mao, dismayed by urbanite Party officials already living privileged lives, initiated the CR to emancipate 400,000,000 voiceless peasants whose social status was unchanged in 3,000 years.
He drove inequality to the lowest level ever recorded and grew the economy 6% pa, twice America’s rate, and mechanized agriculture.
By the CR’s end, rural literacy was taken for granted and rural people (no longer ‘peasants’) were as intolerant of oppression and corruption, as vocal about their priorities, as enthusiastic about voting, and as eager to voice complaints as their urban cousins.
For the first time in history they were full citizens who could point to the infrastructure they built, the agricultural advances they had made, and the problems they had solved.
