You and I both know that the World Bank is especially interested in giving collective farms and other arrangements under Mao a fair shake in its assessment. Yes, the extreme poverty eradication program was a success and there were massive declines in poverty leading up to it as well, but that is fully decades after what I am talking about, when poverty was multiplied by around thirteen times as a byproduct of forcibly privatizing collectively-owned property and leaving hundreds of millions in the dust. Deng did a good job of protecting Chinese sovereignty by integrating China as a foundational element of global trade, but the “economic miracle” – the nominal poverty reduction under the center-right, is at best a problem they only solved because they created it in the first place.

You see me around, surely you remember that I’m not some mindless China-basher, right? The fact of the matter is that Deng was a right-deviationist and that had severe consequences for the people of China, not all of which have yet been solved. We must continue to criticize revision as well as support good socialist systems and policies if we want to be any different from some mindless Chinese nationalists.