Mao Zedong attained a stature in the party that was unchangeable. Mao had brought the party form the devastation of the fail-ore at Ruijin in 1934 to nationwide victory in 1949. As leading communist officials have subsequently commented, "We felt Mao could see farther than we could see and could understand more than we could understand, Therefore, when we did not understand Mao, we assigned that he was right and we were wrong , The result was what could be termed a bandwagon type of political leadership, in which integrally all top officials tried to sens the direction in which Mao was