A student of Marx may or may not be a friend of a student of Mao.
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Similarly, somebody who is going to successfully accomplish any noble goal in the modern world of nonlinear warfare is going to have...
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...to be able to balance both the long term goal, and short term interests, possibly within his own mind, because communication is dangerous
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By embracing capitalism (under the oversight of the party) Deng managed to preserve his state without starting WWIII. That's praiseworthy.
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His achievement goes quite a long way beyond that.
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Well, even if it does, that should still be enough to earn anybody's respect. Esp when the same reforms killed the Soviets.
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Not the same reforms, though. Gorbachev bought the insane "What you really need to catalyze runaway modernity is the Cathedral" line. ...
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... Deng understood that catalytic modernity WITHOUT the Cathedral would restore Chinese civilization (and he has been proved right).
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I'm not entirely sure that the Chinese Communist Party doesn't comprise some sort of Cathedral, but I don't know enough to say for sure.
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But based on all the Orientalist stereotypes, I imagine it might possible be a "the mountain is far away" type scenario.
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Indeed. And you don't take a journey across the mountain to poke the Emperor in the eye. ...
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... You perform the rites, so the Emperor has no reason to visit you.
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