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...Deng...
That's not a line one commonly reads in obituaries, but it's true in this case. What is shocking about the statement is only the sparse number of times it has been written and spoken amid the media hyperbole surrounding the death of Deng Xiaoping--the laudatory news-magazine cover stories and the praise from world leaders including our own sympathetic President...
...Deng was an enemy of dissent, though not of capitalism. And while Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Samuel P. Huntington might conceive of this paradox favoring economic freedom but not political as a cultural characteristic, I am prone to side with those who label it dictatorship...
...That is, Deng knew that privatization could lead to much-needed increases in productivity and therefore riches for both individuals and nation. (Congratulations to him for passing Ec 10.) Deng also knew that economic liberty breeds a stirring for political liberty, so he was quick to keep the pot on the kettle...
...intellectual and physical repression of the populace through a sham of a justice system, a terrorist police force and a corresponding expansive network of laogai, the Chinese brand of gulag, Deng was an enemy of liberty itself--and he well deserves the authoritarian status he was this week denied...