Why does Time magazine contradict itself on Deng Xiaoping?
a. It doesn’t know what it is talking about. b. It has no consistent theory, only the consistent task of glorifying capitalism. c. It has a total of two people in China covering the whole country. d. All of the above. __________________________________________ __________________________ Whenever there were problems in China, the media could refer to “conservative” bureaucrats who opposed Deng Xiaoping’s program of decollectivizing agriculture and running industry on a profit/loss basis. It were as if China were only poor because it was stuck on socialism and did not adopt Western business practices. Then, Deng Xiaoping orders the crackdown on students and suddenly he becomes described as a “hard-liner” himself. No one ever suggested that the very people who advocated free markets, unemployment and private or quasi-private property in agriculture were also the same people in favor of repression of political movements in China. The hidden ideological agenda in virtually all media coverag
