Ah yes, those famously conservative Communist Party academics who were targeted during the Cultural Revolution.
I have no idea what you've been reading. Mao was unhappy that the existing Communist Party was doing things differently from the way he thought they should be done. He was a pure authoritarian dictator, not a social progressive, no matter what propaganda he used as an excuse for his egotism.
"The Cultural Revolution began as a struggle between Mao Zedong and other top party leaders for dominance of the Chinese Communist Party."
https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/introduction_to_the_cultural_revolution
I don't think it's about being hurt, it's about stopping the waste of time and taxpayer money on this absurd and useless distraction theater so they can actually do their fucking jobs for once.
The traitor caucus really needs the distraction theater to keep their constituents from ever being able to figure out that they're completely incompetent at doing their actual jobs. Remove the distraction and make them put up some real votes on real issues.