Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution The revolutionary process that created the People's Republic of China was underway in 1959. The Communist Party had achieved supremacy by 1949, achieving the goal instantaneous politics of revolt. . All industrial and commercial enterprises had been nationalized and the entire economy was restructured under the People's Communes system, thus realizing the economic goal of the revolution. According to Mao, the final step in achieving the revolution was to transform the Chinese people themselves through cultural refinement. This would eventually form the semi-mythical “New Socialist Man” and safeguard the establishment of an inflexible class system within the Party and government. 1 Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in mid-1966. The stated goals of the revolution were to eliminate remnants of so-called bourgeois customs and ideas and to arouse the revolutionary passion of early Chinese communism. He launched extreme public criticism of his rivals and imposed sanctions on the Beijing Studies Organization....