>>17755234
Some of the people who were responsible were put on trial in the late 1970s. I'm not sure what Xi thinks, but part of the issue with a radical communist regime like the Mao era is that it indicts large numbers of people in what it's doing on mass scale. Like kids denouncing their parents and stuff like that. The concept of the "rule of law" where there are rules about what can and can't be done, and hence a clear chain of responsibility, doesn't really apply in a revolutionary period. It's far too chaotic. So what happened is that Mao died and his batshit wife and members of her clique were arrested and charged with killing some folks and then everyone decided to move on.

>>17755543
The anti-corruption campaign was popular but there's more opposition to other aspects of his presidency than you're being told, and which is not expressed openly because you can get in real trouble in China for that, and there's also more conflict on the ground that is going on that the party's internet censors try to remove from the internet (like a factory being set on fire by workers a few days ago). They've been experiencing deflation which is also contributing to rising unemployment and wages not being paid in some cases that lead to stuff like this happening.