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Mao kept the country in turmoil with endless political campaigns, which had dire consequences. The Great Leap Forward led to the starvation of tens of millions. By the time of Mao’s death, China was one of the world’s poorest countries.But decades of disaster should not be blamed on Mao alone. Mao and his comrades had embraced Marxism-Leninism, which preached the “scientific” virtues of socialism.
Ironically, Mr. Deng quoted Mao as having criticized Stalin for not solving the Soviet succession problem. But then, Mr. Deng said, Mao himself did not solve the succession problem in China. People will ask, Mr. Deng said, why the socialist system cannot solve problems that the capitalist system has solved in countries like Britain, France and the United States.
It looked like the institutionalization of a succession mechanism, with the power-holder in effect designating his own successor after one five-year term and stepping down after a second. Clearly, that wasn’t Mr. Deng’s preferred system, since he told the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci that “for a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.
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