Mao’s attempt to maintain a state of permanent revolution and keep himself in power was extremely costly.
The Cultural Revolution slowed the growth of China’s economy. It also created a major division between supporters and opponents of the movement. Many Chinese who had been in their teens and early twenties during the movement did not receive a full education, and in the post-revolution period they failed to secure good jobs. The harm done to the educational system took a long time to repair.
China fell even further behind the industrialized powers of the world, and the effects of the Cultural Revolution troubled China for decades. Most historians and the Chinese today think that the Cultural Revolution was disastrous and totally unnecessary.
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