2CONTEMPORARY WORLDSmental and the physical labour in different socioeconomic areas. This ideology meant to equallyreward the contributions of people in society and economy. However, this goal was not fulfilledby the devastation of China between 1966-1968 (Starr 2015). According to Li (2015), Maowanted to bring China under one ideological movement. He wanted the country to becomesocialist after the fashion of Stalin's (Lenin’s son) Soviet Union. In short, he tends to implementhalf-hearted socialism. Mao was pushed out of economic affairs, but no positive economic considerations werefound to be a reason for him to push the Cultural Revolution. For instance, the Great LeapForward was recognized by the “Peng Dehuai, Liu Shaoqi, and Deng Xiaoping” as workingagainst intended cause. The industrial and the agricultural output precipitated as famine. It left 45million people to death. Further, it was observed by them that it was ruining China both sociallyand economically. This was loyally criticized in Lushan Conference (Kim et al. 2014). However,Mao failed to understand the economic implications of it and rather took the criticism personally.In response to the criticism, Mao did nothing to improve the economic affairs of the countryrather purged Peng and his supporters from the party and PLA respectively. This event made Liuand Deng more cautious that tend to keep Mao out of the day-to-day running of the Party andeventually out of the presidency of the PRC (Callahan 2015). Instead of Mao, it was Liu andDengwho modified the economic reforms for the country’s benefit. In turn, they gainedpopularity in CCP. Thus, improvement in economic affairs and the decline in Mo's power werethe main reason for the Cultural Revolution by Mao. Mao’s failure reflected clearly in the GreatLeap and the Cultural RevolutionIt can be argued that Mao launched the Cultural Revolution to resist the government andthe CCP from becoming too remote from people. The country’s industrial and agricultural

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