Asked by wholemelt

What proposed changes were made to boost the Chinese economy that caused Mao to launch the oppressive Cultural Revolution? Choose three answers.

allow workers to compete for wages
capitalist reforms that Mao viewed as anti-Communist
prosecute government officials
permit farmers to sell excess crops
form paramilitary groups of students

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Answers:
- allow workers to compete for wages
- capitalist reforms that Mao viewed as anti-Communist
- permit farmers to sell excess crops

Reason: In the early 1960s pragmatic economic measures (restoring incentives, wage differentials, and allowing peasants to sell surplus) were seen by Mao as "capitalist" backsliding. Those reforms prompted him to launch the Cultural Revolution. The other options describe actions taken during the Revolution (prosecuting officials, mobilizing student paramilitaries), not the proposed economic changes.