Deng Xiao Ping
who is one of the most important figure in recent history of China. And China
is the most developing country in the
World for now as we all know and there is no country which can stop China to be
a leader one in the future. What is the
connection of Modern China and Deng?
What is the role
of Deng Xiao Ping in the process of creating a World power? What does he do for modern China and Chinese
society? What does his ideas and thoughts on China to become a rich society?
Does he a communist indeed? Has he followed the way of Mao during his
leadership after Mao Zedong?
What was his aim
when he stop the students while they dream to live in a better economic
situation in a democratic country and holding
a demonstration against governing
communist party at Tiananmen square?
If we take a look
at the recent history of China, we will see Deng as one of the most important
figure at China’s recent economic and politic development. If Deng was not
exist, we might not see a leader China
today. Because, no doubt that who has economically opened the liberal way of
China was Deng Xiaoping. When he said his famous saying ‘It does not matter if
it is a black cat or a yellow cat, as long as it cathes mice!’, he meant that
it doesnt matter if you govern the country by the communist or capitalist
idologies, it is more important to have a successful economic power by going
beyong the ideologies.
Truly, Deng has
created an alternative system which is called politically communist and
economically liberal. For being a liberal economy, China has been experiencing
an economical power around the World for the last three decades. It s passed only around 70 years that China
has recovered from civil war and I think, that is a great success for Chinese
that they are not only dressed the wound
of civil war, but also has created a World power in the shortest time when we
compare to Turkey. And we can not think all these efforts, diplomacy and
progress without contributions of Deng Xiaoping. In my opinion, Deng as a small
giant, is more important than Mao for a modern Chinese society.
I read boks and
papers which has written on the biography of Deng, and I got the point that Deng
is the most important political figure as for
Mao is the military genius for Chinese. And I think Deng could not be a
Mao, and Mao had not potential to be a Deng Xiaoping. They both have many in
common but also different in many ways as well.
Deng is not a
real communist indeed, because he made concession from communist ideologies and opened way of
innovative economic policies instead of
keeping used and fruitless communist policies of Mao.
Deng was a loyal
politician to the Chairman Mao until Mao has passed away and he took over the
leadership and begun to implemet his own ideas and policies. Mao would never
allow to use capitalist tools to get a better economic situation but Deng has
done successfully. Mao knew that if he use liberalism to have a larger economy,
the economic gap in the society would be
increased in parallel, so he never involved in such a so called successfull economic
policy (Mao was right when we think of the benefits of the society). Mao was absolutely right, because the result
of the economic development is a huge gap between poors and riches in China.
Mao could not manage economy in the interest of people and Deng made it for the
rich capitalists. Every passing day, as Leonard Cohen sing, and as Everybody
Knows, poor stay poor and rich get rich. That is how it goes in China today.
Lastly, I have to
make a point of the Tiananmen square protest as well. Because most of people
around the World heard the name of Deng after the square massacres, as for Deng
was playing a major role in that case.
In 1989, Students
revolt against communist party for the democracy and the governmet (Deng was at
top at that time) warned students to disperse from the square but students
insisted to protests. Government decided to use hard ways to clear protesters
and soldiers entered the square with tanks and weapons. Deng commanded soldiers
to run over the demonstrators and kill all who could insist on prostests. More
than 2000 people had been murdered at that time.
There is an
unforgettable moment left from that case which was a student standing before a
tank and trying to hold it up against the students and democracy. Thanks to
foreign press to be there, everybody witnessed that brave man via news and the
famous picture of him became a symbol of the tiananmen massacre. Even the Time magazine used the
picture as the cover page when they gave place to the incident details.
Deng made a
statement later on and said "The entire imperialist Western world plans to
make all socialist countries discard the socialist road and then bring them
under the monopoly of international capital and onto the capitalist road".
The one who brought China under the international capital and onto the
capitalist road was not imperialist western countries, instead, it was Deng
himself.
No matter what
kind of person Deng is, his life should be known to understand the recent rapid development of the country. If you want to understand the
recent history of China, you have to understand the ideas of Deng Xiaoping and
learn his life.
But I am afraid
to say that you can not find any Turkish document and book about his life, not even on the Turkish page
of Wikipedia while there are a lot in English. As another developing country, Turkey
must understand China and chinese
society. We have to turn our face from Western to Eastern. In order to be
helpful on this way, I set to write his Turkish biography as a goal. I want to
write a book on Deng’s life. Let’s hope to get success and go even further.
