By "breaking capitalism", some people whose living standards have improved have been pulled down again, and all people have never thought about "capitalist" life since then, so that people's living needs have been maintained at a very low level. The contribution to breaking capitalism can be said to be enormous.
On the other hand, in the early days of the Cultural Revolution, production stagnated in many areas and people's living needs generally declined, which just covered up the shortcomings of insufficient production and killed two birds with one stone.
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On June 1966 and 1 Sunday, the editorial "Sweep the Ghosts" of the People's Daily put forward the slogan "Get rid of all the old ideas, cultures, customs and habits that have poisoned the people for thousands of years"; Later, Article 16 of the Cultural Revolution clearly stipulated that "breaking the four old things" and "establishing four new things" were the important goals of the Cultural Revolution.
The Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held from August 1 year to August 12 adopted the Decision on the Cultural Revolution (hereinafter referred to as Article 16), which further affirmed the idea of breaking the "four olds". But how to break the "four old", the central did not explain.
1966 In the early morning of August19, the "breaking the capitalism" began. "Breaking the Four Old Styles" refers to the movement in the early days of the "Cultural Revolution", which was dominated by the Red Guards of college and middle school students and advertised to get rid of old ideas, old culture, old customs and habits. With the rise of the Red Guards Movement, it swept across China.
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