On The Motives Of Mao Zedong’ Launching "the Great Cultural Revolution"

"The Great Cultural Revolution" is a very special political movement in the history of the Communist Party and New China.As for the origins of the movement, scholars at home and abroad have studied from multiple perspectives,and achieved fruitful results.But no matter how complicated the origins are,Mao Zedong was the main planner and leader.So there is no point analyzing the so-called origins without studying Mao Zedong’subjective motives in the movement.Then why did Mao Zedong took a huge political risk to launch "The Great Cultural Revolution"?What were his motives and purposes?There has been some research progress about this problem in the academic circles,and much penetrating judgment has been put forward,but there is still no clear consensus,so much space of research exists. Based on the previous research,the author put forward his own opinions through the investigation of the related data.Around the main line of Mao Zedong’motives to launch the movement,the author discussed it from two levels of direct motives and fundamental motives.First the author thinks Mao Zedong’most direct motive was to solve the increasingly serious problems of Revisionism in China.Mao Zedong had once taken a series of measures and actions against it,but the effects all seemed not obvious,so a extreme mass movement like "the Great Cultural Revolution" was the only way left.The thesis believes launching the "the Great Cultural Revolution" itself is just’a means,fighting and guarding against Revisionism is the purpose.Second the author thinks even fighting and guarding against Revisionism was not Mao Zedong’final aim,he had a more profound consideration:he hoped to find a new mode of ideal modernization for China which was different both from western mode and the Soviet mode.This is such a mode in which the objective of modernization can be fulfilled while adhering to the socialist system and its purity.This is a new way of modernization through which a balance can be reached between the material civilization and moral ethics,also between value rationality and instrumental rationality.Such a paradox about modernization originated from the Western Enlightenment,and "the Great Cultural Revolution" was Mao Zedong’contemporary response to the historical proposition.At last,the author thinks that a correct evaluation of Mao Zedong’ motive in "the Great Cultural Revolution" is necessary.Although the. movement finally ended in failure and regret,the humanistic concern and value orientation embodied through the movement by Mao Zedong are of universal significance,which we can not simply deny.It has great meaning both theoretically and practically to study "the Great Cultural Revolution" carefully.