You Say You Want A Revolution.

... Robert Henery History 600 2/20/03 You Say You Want A Revolution Prior to the Cultural Revolution, the Chinease government had always walked a fine line between building an effective buracracy and keeping to their ideals of a revolutionary spirit. Many people like Liu Shoqui and Zhou Enlai realized that for China to Modernize it would take a strong, well controled government. Consequently, government actions and intiatives would effectively help to build up this grwoing buracracy, but a revolutionary spin would be put on to make everything fit well into the retoric. In 1966 everything was flipped upside down when the buracracy was torn apart in the Cultural Revolution. During this revolution many people in the government were attacked based on capitalism, revisionism, and rightism. Even with this cultural revolution raging, the nature of government actions and their lip service to communism did not change. The government used the same means of buracratic response to

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