Deng Xiaoping: "Pemikiran Mao Zedong tidak diciptakan oleh Kamerad Mao...

"Pemikiran Mao Zedong tidak diciptakan oleh Kamerad Mao saja - revolusioner lain dari generasi yang lebih tua berperan dalam membentuk dan mengembangkannya - tetapi terutama mewujudkan pemikiran Kamerad Mao. Namun demikian, kemenangan membuatnya kurang bijaksana, sehingga di tahun-tahun kemudian beberapa fitur tidak sehat dan ide-ide tidak sehat, terutama yang "Kiri", mulai muncul. Dalam beberapa contoh ia menentang ide-idenya sendiri, menentang proposisi yang bagus dan benar yang sebelumnya ia ajukan, dan berlawanan dengan gaya kerja yang ia anjurkan sendiri."

--- Deng Xiaoping

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Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated.