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GCSE History · key term
Mao’s label for Communist Party officials whom he accused of taking China towards capitalism.
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Paper 3
Revise: Red Guards and TerrorMao wanted action against officials he labelled ‘capitalist roaders’, but the attacks spread beyond individual opponents to challenge the authority of the Chinese Communist Party itself.
Paper 1
A hostile political label for people accused of steering Communist China towards capitalism.
Revise: The Red Guards & Social Impact of the Cultural RevolutionRed Guards helped attack people labelled ‘capitalist roaders’: officials accused of taking China away from socialism. This label presented political opponents as enemies of the revolution rather than people with legitimate differences of opinion.
Distinguish Mao’s aim of removing alleged ‘capitalist roaders’ from the wider attacks on CCP authority.
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