“This person does not grasp class struggle; he has never referred to this key link. Still his theme of ‘white cat, black cat,’ making no distinction between imperialism and Marxism.”
This supposed quote by Mao comes from the top of this work here. Does anyone know its origins?
He said it about Deng. I am having troubles finding when he said it exactly but clearly it was after Deng said “it doesn’t matter if a cat is white or black as along as it catches mice.” Mao was saying that Deng was not rooted in Marxist theory of class struggle and was worried that “doing what works to fix the problem” could lead China away from communism into bourgeois imperialism. Its was very valid critique and maybe Deng did deviate a bit to the right but after the left deviation of the cultural revolution there did need to be a realignment.
