The primary political objective was to change the ideologies of the people from imperialism to communism through techniques such as thought reforms and re-education campaigns that would push people to believe in Mao's vision of China and socialism ways of thinking, working and living dedicated to "serving the people" rather than self-interest. From 1949, Mao established a Marxist-influenced communist political system, which was modified slightly over the years but still remained the type of system he desired. However, changes made by leaders like Deng Xiaoping after the Great Leap Forward introduced new right-wing capitalist policies, such as the encouragement of private markets, that would allow China's economy to recover from the Great Leap Forward. These measures have been maintained as the policies have been shown to increase productivity and growth. This threatened Mao's views on the kind of socialist society he intended to create and so he and the Communist Party of China (CPC) launched the Cultural Revolution of 1966 to return China to its "pure" socialist system. From this it can be seen that Mao's political goals of the 1949 Communist Revolution were to a certain extent achieved with the creation of a communist system. His goal, however, was not fully achieved as the changes made by Deng Xiaoping in 1966 changed his creation of a “pure” communist system to a socialist system fueled economically by