Opinion of Deng Xiaoping

[Derpist]

HP (normal, not incline to excusing dictators because "muh free marketz")

Initiated the current regime of Chinese governance that takes some of the good parts of living under capitalism, but also the worst parts of living under capitalism working in synergy with the worst parts of living under Communism. HP.

[Derpist]

HP (normal, not incline to excusing dictators because "muh free marketz")

Initiated the current regime of Chinese governance that takes some of the good parts of living under capitalism, but also the worst parts of living under capitalism working in synergy with the worst parts of living under Communism. HP.

Both of these statements are too overly simplistic, especially if you look at China, from a third-world perspective.

Peasant apartheid, the dismantling of the social welfare state, environmental degradation, and mass land theft in order to make the Ultra Rich Asian Girls of Vancouver even richer is pretty indefensible.

[Derpist]

All of these weren't (mostly) the fault of Xiaoping, but his successors.

You're right that he didn't directly implement many of those things and that things didn't really begin to fall apart until the late 90's. But he pretty much enabled all of this by crushing a popular broad-based coalition, suppressing both workers and students in 1989, and by permanently putting into power an incredibly amoral, parasitic, neoliberal elite whose sole modus operandi is to suck wealth out of China until it is eternally dead and the average rent in California is $9001 a month.