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Luo Xiaohai
Luo Xiaohai was one of the most prominent of a small group of high-school students who founded the Red Guards in 1966. He was the author of major essays that encouraged student rebellion and provided some of the most vituperative language for the movement. His writings received Mao's personal support. This is the first time he has spoken at length about his involvement in the Cultural Revolution, a complex tale of revolutionary idealism and disillusionment. Inspired by radical Mao Thought to rebel against aspects of the socialist state, Luo Xiaohai was also a vocal critic of the violence that erupted in the Red Guard movement. His inner experience of revolution and its betrayal led him to become one of the first among his generation of high-school students to question not only the Cultural Revolution, but the socialist system itself.
