... People's Daily published a big character poster directly attacking party members who were taking the capitalist road. This sent University campuses into a state of chaos.(Schoenhals, 363) In response to this uprising Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping sent work teams to the campuses. This was representative of the governments contradictory policies. In this case they sent work teams to help direct and dictate the revolutionary fervor of the students. But in reality this was a measure to take control of the campuses from the students and give it back to the party. The work teams were a unit of the governments bureaucracy, but they operated using communist rhetoric to justify their actions. Eventually Liu Shaoqi was branded as an official who took the capitalist road and was kicked out of office, and it is important to note that one of the main charges against him was his use of the ...

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