Deng Xiaoping was a Communist.

He wore simple suits. He smoked constantly. He was purged twice and came back both times. Deng Xiaoping was the “architect of modern China.” Dogmatists claim he “betrayed socialism”. This left deviation is rooted in their ignorance of the Neoliberal Period and the fall of the USSR. The Soviet Model was too gentle and naive and surrendered itself to Western Corruption. Deng charted a new path. China won.

Deng rebuilt a nation standing on the edge of collapse—without letting it fall to the West.

🧨 1978: China was poor, isolated, and exhausted.

Decades of wars, embargoes, and revolution had left the country materially devastated.Deng’s challenge was immense: revitalize the economy without collapsing the state.While the Soviet Union stagnated and eventually dissolved, Deng charted another path: market reform under political discipline.

🏗 He opened the economy—but didn’t open the country to imperialism.

Deng’s reforms—known as the “Reform and Opening Up”—introduced limited market mechanisms, foreign investment, and Special Economic Zones.But China’s commanding heights remained in public hands. Finance. Energy. Infrastructure. Military. Media. The core of the state was never privatized.This wasn’t neoliberalism. This was Leninist strategy under new material conditions.

“Cross the river by feeling the stones.”– Deng Xiaoping

It wasn’t a surrender. It was survival. And it worked.

📉 He watched the USSR collapse and learned what not to do.

The 1990s showed what happened when you privatized everything:shock therapy, oligarchs, mass poverty, and social breakdown.Deng never let that happen. China moved cautiously, protected key industries, and maintained strict Party leadership.

Critics said it was authoritarian. But what kind of democracy sells its railroads to billionaires?

🧱 He didn’t create inequality—but he planned to solve it.

Yes, Deng opened space for private wealth—but he always framed it as a stage, not an end.

“Let some get rich first… to lift the rest.”

Deng knew that building socialism in a peasant country wasn’t utopian. It required time, surplus, and discipline.His reforms laid the groundwork for poverty eradication, mass infrastructure, technological ascent, and the rise of a socialist modernity no one in the West thought possible.

He didn’t Westernize China. He created a Chinese path to socialism.

And that’s what they can’t forgive.He played the global market—but didn’t become its servant.He opened the door—but kept the Party in command.He re-entered the world—but never returned to subjugation. Deng Xiaoping didn’t sell out socialism. He kept it alive long enough to rise again—with Chinese characteristics, and global consequences.