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8
Ougùstùs
1966

The “Sixteen Points” formalize the Cultural Revolution’s mass campaign

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📅 8 Ougùstùs 1966 📍 China

The Central Committee’s decision framed the Cultural Revolution as a mass movement to challenge alleged capitalist restoration within the Party. It empowered political mobilization but destabilized regular administration and economic coordination. Debates about worker power and bureaucratic privilege were real, but the campaign’s factional violence often replaced accountable workplace participation with coercion and political loyalty tests.

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