Question

Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in China in response to

new economic policies that threatened social equality.
new democratic policies that threatened social equality.
new social policies that threatened economic equality.
new Communist policies that threatened economic equality.

Answer 1

new economic policies that threatened social equality.

Mao launched the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) to attack what he saw as revisionist, pro-capitalist trends in the Communist Party — especially pragmatic economic policies and technocratic leadership (e.g., under Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping) that he believed were creating inequalities and undermining socialist, egalitarian principles.