Mao had to remove all the backward superstitions to lay the groundwork for Deng Xiaoping to succeed.

By...killing 45 million in 4 years? Even Hitler had a poorer strike rate.

to lay the groundwork for Deng Xiaoping to succeed.

I get it now, you are an elaborate troll, because you are so poorly informed about Chinese history and yet keep foaming at the mouth with your horribly racist, bigoted theories.

You do realise that Deng and Liu Shiaqi's took on a more active charge of the Politburo and slowly started to sideline Mao, and then used this platform to push through small reforms which in turn caused a fear in Mao that the revolution would fail which prompted the Cultural Revolution and then sidelined Deng right?

Deng was actually persecuted during the cultural revolution, at least read his biography before you write some seriously wrong crap here.

The Gang of 4 came close to getting Deng himself arrested and purged.

Dude, seriously, you are just a waste of time, I realise now that you know literally zero about actual Chinese or Japanese or Korean history, and even lesser about Indian history, all you have to offer are shitty racist theories. Replace Indic with Jews and Confucian with Aryans / Slavs whatever and you have the classic Nazi racial theories or the shit found in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

No point even trying to debate with you. All you have done here is shift goal posts first and just make up stuff to cover up your embarassing lack of knowledge.