[dfwgator]

Wrong. These are the equivalent of the Chinese “Red Guards”...down to a “T”.

[gusty]

Exactly. The main reason being that the Red Guards went after their own kind, Communists, except older Communists. Mao unleashed the fury of the Cultural Revolution just to get revenge on one guy, Liu Shao-qi. Liu slighted him years earlier in criticizing the Great Leap Forward, and Mao waited years and created the climate just to have the right time to get him.