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He says Mao’s barrel-of-a-gun formula and Deng’s black-cat/white-cat formula are utilitarian and therefore inadequate for understanding politics and war.
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Deng Xiaoping
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"right So the first difference is utility versus character Ag ain I assume that most of you are Chinese or have a Chinese background..."
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"lot if it 's black or white And again I 'll show you why that 's the case l ater on Okay So for..."
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"...who led the Chinese Revolution, people like Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, they were not poor people. They didn't come from poor families...."
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A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
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