We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his mistakes secondary. In China, we will inherit the many good things in Chairman Mao's thinking while… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four. For most of his life, Chairman Mao did very good things. Many times he saved the… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
China has a history of thousands of years of feudalism and is still lacking in socialist democracy and socialist legality. We are now working… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao was after all a principal founder of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. In evaluating his merits and… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
At the higher stage of communism, when the productive forces will be greatly developed and the principle "from each according to his ability, to… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the way to… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
