It's a shorthand for someone who isn't opposition but made error that can be described in terms of other political alignments. Elsewhere I call the CR "utopian" not because Mao wasn't a Marxist socialist but because in his particular implementations there and sometimes elsewhere he made the same errors that utopians make. Deng likewise was too right wing in his approach, but not to the point of being an anti-Marxist.
Deng followed a heresy that Mao long warned against: he hijacked the People's Revolution onto the capitalist road. Cf.: "to get rich is glorious" "it doesn't matter if the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice"
What does “deviationist” mean in this sense?
It's a shorthand for someone who isn't opposition but made error that can be described in terms of other political alignments. Elsewhere I call the CR "utopian" not because Mao wasn't a Marxist socialist but because in his particular implementations there and sometimes elsewhere he made the same errors that utopians make. Deng likewise was too right wing in his approach, but not to the point of being an anti-Marxist.
Deng followed a heresy that Mao long warned against: he hijacked the People's Revolution onto the capitalist road. Cf.: "to get rich is glorious" "it doesn't matter if the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice"