China's state-run media has said the country can never allow a repeat of the "error" of the Cultural Revolution.
The editorial in Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily is the first official comment following Monday's 50th anniversary of the start of the unrest.
The campaign to "purge" society of Mao Zedong's political opponents ushered in years of bloodshed and turmoil.
The era was "entirely wrong in both theory and practice", the paper said.
China's ruling Communist Party has consistently restricted open discussion of the Cultural Revolution era, fearing it could undermine its legitimacy and public confidence in its leadership.
But it has previously also acknowledged that the Maoist policies of the era were flawed.
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