本文企圖對於在毛澤東統治下所發生的大躍進及文化大革命對中國國家力量的衝擊提出一套新的詮釋與理解。毛澤東的這兩項瘋狂計劃對國家的力量造成負面的影響，主要原因在於它們摧毀了由國家所協調控制的紀律性制度與意識形態權力。紀律性制度與意識形態權力是支撐國家政策貫徹能力的主要支柱。因此，毛的兩項大型計劃不單直接造成災難與痛苦，也間接地毀壞國家得以在大躍進前用來推動現代化建設的政策貫徹能力。

This essay attempts to facilitate an understanding of the political impact of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution on the Chinese Communist state's power during Mao Zedong's reign. These two Maoist crusades inflicted critical damages on state power, given that they almost completely demolished the disciplinary institutions and ideological power wielded by the state. The disciplinary institutions and ideological power were the main pillar that buttressed the state's infrastructural power. Therefore, the two Maoist grand projects not only directly caused disasters and suffering, but also indirectly damaged the state's infrastructural power, which had been employed to undertake economic modernization before the Great Leap Forward.