Deng Xiaoping’s 1979 decision to align with Washington against Vietnam was a strategic gamble shaped by the Sino-Soviet split, the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and Beijing’s rivalry with Moscow. The decision helped China signal its opposition to Soviet influence, but it also meant cooperating diplomatically with the United States while Beijing continued to support the Khmer Rouge after its overthrow. For a related perspective, read Deng Xiaoping was a Communist. What Deng

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Xi Jinping leads a Communist Party that defines itself through Marxism while governing an economy shaped by both state direction and markets. The contradictions matter.

Ten widely cited lines from Karl Marx, with source texts and brief notes on the arguments around each passage.

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“Capitalism, like all systems, has a beginning—and it will have an end.” — Immanuel Wallerstein