Mao Zedong called for the cultural revolution because he believed ___ reforms threatened social equality

Mao Zedong called for the cultural revolution because he believed capitalists reforms threatened social equality.

The political and social chaos that resulted from the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was initially a Mao Zedong's attempt to reassert his control over the Communist party, whom he believed was being infiltrated by capitalists and feared it would take a wrong direction, and to change some capitalists reforms (of Education, health care, and culture) that were organized for the good of a few people, and threatened social equality.

Answer: capitalists

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