Stalin and Deng were both capitalists. Both also made various social mistakes. We can denounce the black book as being full of nonsense without having to erase the facts.
Failure to accept and learn from errors is itself an error and leads to future mistakes.
The fact that these crazed Stalino-Dengoid Deprogramites refuse to learn from errors on ideological grounds is why they (by which I mean any MLs at all) can never be entrusted with any responsibility, power or revolutionary positions again.
The fact that the black book says crazy shit like the hypothetical unconcieved children of dead Nazis died to communism doesn't erase the rightist modernisation and revisionism of several key MList leaders. The two are separate and distinct issues.
The biggest problem with both Stalin and Deng is of course that they operated capitalist market economies with zero plans to ever transition to socialism.
If I'm wrong please show me the proof of when they planned to phase out commodity production for the sake of the markets. We both know you can't provide any timeline for economic transition because it never seriously existed.
Credit where it is due - Cheng Enfu, one of the leading Marxist economists in China, has written on how China may transition towards socialism in various stages in future. But his plans are not Deng's, nor are they guaranteed to be applied by his party as he lays them out, nor is there any concrete timetable.
Stalin and Deng were both in opposition to socialist economics, they hung it out like a mirage or a carrot on a stick to never be reached.
Stalin was the left wing of capital. Deng was a right deviationist who turned China into a market state which is essentially no different to the USA.
All hail to the CEO landlord billionaire pioneers on the economic front!
That said, I'm no communizer. I'm not saying you have to transform your economic model overnight. You can have a system of gradual transition when certain milestones are reached.
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