Thread:ChineseSocialist/@comment-45678239-20200903203034/@comment-44008219-20200904161553

I'd say I'm more of a Maoist than a Dengist.

Of course, there are some things I don't support Mao on, but in general, I really admire his ideology, which is what had built the solid base of the People's Republic of China, guiding China to a path of industrialization and modernization. I'd say, without Mao, China wouldn't be the superpower it is today. He improved the life expectancy of the Chinese people from 37 to 63/64 years, provided free education and healthcare, transformed China from a war torn country to an industrialized, independent nation, annhiliated the Imperialist precense that has been plaguing china since the opium war, supported the liberation of the third world, destroyed degenerate culture etc.

Of course, Mao had some points that I dislike, like the Great Leap Forward and the Hundred Flowers Movement, but in general, I think he's done too much excess actions and had dedicated too much of his heart into it, which had it's consequences, his intention to make China a superpower in the Great Leap Forward and his intention to listen to criticism in the Hundred Flowers movement to make sure the CCP does a better job is good however. His support for Pol Pot and Sino-Soviet Split is what I dislike about as well.

As for Deng Xiaoping, I like his economic policies for introducing Market Socialism in the nation, which eventually also enhanced the important part of making China a superpower that Mao had built before. The thing is, I dislike him for his suppression of fellow Maoists in Tiananmen Square, his extremely stupid foreign policy for supporting the Khmer Rouge and the Taliban, and eventually paved way to some corruption until it's removed in Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao's era. I don't dislike Deng, unlike Gorbachev because he had kept the corrupt, traitorous, pro-west factions of the CCP in control and had allowed Jiang to boom the Chinese economy.