Opposition

• Opposition


  Resistance or dissidence exposed, anyone who goes against Mao, his government, communism, etc. but not as an enemy, rather someone within the country
• Hundred Flowers Campaign


  • Mao asked people to criticize, then used that criticism to prosecute those seen as opposition
• The Hundred Flowers Campaign took place

  1957
• Hundred Flowers Campaign


  1. Mao asked for criticism

  2. People were hesitant at first

  3. Mao encouraged criticism

  4. Criticism escalated

  5. Mao used criticism to identify and prosecute opposition
• It is debated whether Mao genuinely wanted criticism to improve the country, or if he used it as a way to identify and eliminate opposition
• Mao was effective in preventing and eliminating opposition before it could gain traction, through tactics like the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Anti-Landlord Movement, and the Cultural Revolution