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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I think while the results speak for themselves, he got lucky.

It was a leap of faith and incredible trust in the future generations. If that went as market reforms did elswhere we would be now cursing him as second Gorbachev (or Gorbachev as second Deng). And the world could be as well completely doomed with no socialist China.