It's interesting how the slogan of Mao's "Hundred Flowers Campaign" is widely used as a metaphor for healthy competition fueling innovation and progress of a po

It's interesting how the slogan of Mao's "Hundred Flowers Campaign" is widely used as a metaphor for healthy competition fueling innovation and progress of a population, while the campaign resulted in violently silencing most of the dissenting voice. Some therefore conclude that Mao had anticipated this outcome and used the campaign as an entrapment to identify critics and get rid of them.