You can’t think about building a post-capitalist society without first developing the productive forces. That’s why I’m so against these “marxists” who dislike Deng. More than a great leader, Deng was a brilliant Marxist. He wasn’t anti-Maoist, as they want us to believe. Mao was absolutely necessary for Deng’s structural reforms to take place. Mao plowed the land so that in the future, it could be harvested.