AHC: Mao gets Purged by the Red Guards

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The challenge is get the Chinese Red Guards to eventually purge Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution.

Given your means, who might take over the CCP after he is denounced and/or killed?
Could the party even survive?
 

Asami

Banned
Doesn't this effectively go against the whole concept of the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards? These kids were idolizing Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong Thought; how could they denounce him without becoming counter-revolutionaries like those they were ratting out? :p
 
Easy, Mao takes a harder line in favor of the establishment (or tries to pull the plug too overtly instead of playing both sides) or for whatever reason goes all in on Dengism and they decide he's "betrayed his own revolution by becoming a capitalist roader" or some shit.
 
These kids were idolizing Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong Thought; how could they denounce him without becoming counter-revolutionaries like those they were ratting out? :p
Fanboys can turn into the worst kind of haters if disappointed by their idol. See: George Lucas.
 
Okay, so you can get Mao to actually SEE what they were doing on the streets somewhere. Ergo, he's horrified and tells them to stop immediately. The Red Guards who are doing this aren't aware that this is Mao talking to them and they shoot him.

:D The end, and the world is so much better for it.
 
Ooooh, this is a good idea. I like it.

However, the problem is that the Red Guards essentially viewed Mao as Christ. They would travel across the country on foot like some Canterbury Tale pilgrimage, all just to go see Mao. So how to get them to turn on their messiah? I don't think it's easy. It has to be an evolution out from under Mao and outside of Mao's control, where the madness of the Cultural Revolution transcends him and he becomes an obstacle to the greater god of Communism.
 
Could this occur after Mao's 'capitalist sellout' following establishment of diplomatic relations with America and other capitalist states in the early 1970s [if the Red Guards were still in action] and later [maybe Mao survives longer and becomes friendlier with these countries or a more 'Maoist' but pro-capitalist and western Chinese leader takes power in Beijing]?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_China
 

Driftless

Donor
Mao sees the Red Guard as beyond controllable and directs other party controlled entities to rein them in. In the ensuing anarchy, Mao gets bumped off by someone (pick a side...) and the Red Guard takes the fall for the assassination.
 
Doesn't this effectively go against the whole concept of the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards? These kids were idolizing Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong Thought; how could they denounce him without becoming counter-revolutionaries like those they were ratting out? :p

True enough but maybe Mao could be exposed enjoying western luxuries or something. Or maybe pictures could come out showing him with one of his many women.
 
Ooooh, this is a good idea. I like it.

However, the problem is that the Red Guards essentially viewed Mao as Christ. They would travel across the country on foot like some Canterbury Tale pilgrimage, all just to go see Mao. So how to get them to turn on their messiah? I don't think it's easy. It has to be an evolution out from under Mao and outside of Mao's control, where the madness of the Cultural Revolution transcends him and he becomes an obstacle to the greater god of Communism.

The thing is, even the moderates who hated Mao still portrayed him as being on their side against the excesses of Maoism.

We must earnestly study the writings of Chairman Mao to deepen the criticism of the counter-revolutionary revisionist line of the 'Gang of Four'

This would be like saying "We must study the writings of Hitler to deepen our criticism of the anti-semitism of Goebbels and Himmler."

So, by the time the CR was in full swing, I think ANYONE seeking to gain the upper hand would claim to have Mao on their side, ESPECIALLY the Red Guards who had been extolling him as a god.
 
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