As an ethnic Chinese I can tell you it is not, the revolution is hell, for everyone, even for people who support the communist party. You have no idea what it's like, it's not some happy French revolution where people are dancing and singing while marching on the street.
Students murdering and torturing their teachers, they make their teachers eat feces and insects, they even make them rape each other.
Young kids cut off their own arms and legs so they don't have to join the revolution and start killing people. Temples and monuments destroyed, books and library burned, culture being wiped out, religion and tradition erased, millions of people starved to death, people start eating and selling other people's children....In the final days of the revolution the red guards (aka students who support the party) start fighting each other, everyday you can find dead bodies of young boys and girls on the street, the girls were usually raped too after being killed in the fight. It is the very definition of hell and chaos. The spirit of revolution has become completely twisted.
Over half of the Chinese people you see in the US, UK and Australia today are only there because their family want to escape from the revolution. You think their family move to the west for fun?
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight...let-dark-deeds-cultural-revolution-come-light
Maybe this will shed some light for you.