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 Mao and his associates came to form an elite within the Communist Party that forced its people into a series of heroic, but misguided campaigns. One of Mao’s first acts was to redistribute all land – former landlords were often beaten up or killed. As time went on, Mao began to develop his own idiosyncratic brand of communism, launching one mass-action campaign after another and seeming to control the collective will of his people (Knowles, 2007).