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carlosmartinez's review
4.0
Just contrast Deng's clarity of vision with the inane, incoherent ramblings of Gorbachev in the mid-1980s and you have a pretty decent indication as to why 'reform' went so badly in the USSR and so well in China. Deng: maintain socialism, maintain the working class orientation of the state, don't denigrate your own history, don't split the ruling party, don't unleash forces of nationalist separatism, do take a science-based experimental approach to fixing the economy, do ensure everyone's living standards continue to increase. Gorbachev: the opposite.
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